Sunday 14 July 2019.

 amidst the high octane and tension of the world cup final, i have made my way to the glorious calder valley for the semi final of the parish cup, the knock out competition for the halifax league, where booth take on illingworth st marys for a place in the august the 4th final. 

the all conquering booth have won the halifax league 1st devition for the last 3 seasons, and won this competition in 2016 and 2017 too. 

this is also the clash of the top 2 in the same devition. with st marys 16 points clear of booth. 

winners to play shelf north owram hedge top or thornton.

up hear in the calder valey and booth finish on a competitive 241 for 8 off 45 overs. booth slipped to 21 for 3, thanks to to some hostile opening bowling by luke brooksby, who eventually finished with fine figures of 4 for 28. 

thereafter, it was left to the brothers laycock, robert, 118, and richard, 51 to rescue booth in spectacular style, putting on a 4th wicket partnership of 133 before richard departed for 51. 

robert, the main stay, along with mattthew hoyle, 27 carried carried on the assault. 

steeven cook, the 2nd best of the illingworth bowlers with 2 for 27.

yes. yes. yes. yes yes yes yes!!!!! 

perfect timeing up in the calder valey as the game finished just in time for the last over, so watching it all in a traditional cricket club was deffinitely the way forward. 

gutted for new zealand though to lose like that. 

would have been funny if it was the ausies. 

but you can't practically share a world cup i don't think. 

amazing performance from new zealand through out the tournament.

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