Sunday 29 May 2022

 at the wonderfully named  all alone road, for waddilove cup 2nd round action. 

bolton villas vs calverley st wilfrids. 

this is the knock out cup competition for teams in the airedale and wharfedale cricket league, considered to be the 2nd tier of cricket in west yorkshire. this is 3rd division vs 2nd on league standings. the home side were victorious over thackley in the first round, whilst calverley won through against st chads broomfield. 

both teams daring to dream of appearing in the 7th of august final at olicanian cc. cup won by rawden last year. villas batting on a cool and bright day on the outskirts of bradford.

Yesterday's result from all alone Road. And a cup upset as Bolton villas win by 43 runs against higher ranking Calverley st wilfrids. 

the home side slid to 64 for 4, before partnerships of 56, 61 and 46 for the 5th, 6, and 7th Wickets respectively pulled them round. They finished on 225 all out from 45 overs. ma contributions   of 72, 55, and 30. Three for 78 being the best of the calverley bowlers.The game looked to be up for the away side  when they slid to 96 for 7, following a blistering new ball spell  of  hostile bowling — 4 for 38. but the main batsman,  no. 7 for wilfrids had other ideas. keeping them well up with the rate in tandem with tom simpson, he took them to 178 with only 47 reqoired. he, then was dropped, — an absolute dolly of a chance before being clean bowled next over by the offending fielder to depart for 72. tom simpson, 39 fell next over, and the game was up for wilfrids. villas away to ilkley in the quarter finals, where they will be joined by rawden, collingham, otley, beckwithshaw, bilton and steeton.

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