Elsecar are champions once again
Published Date:
08 September 2008
Gladedale South Yorkshire
Elsecar continue to rewrite the league record books. When they outpointed guests Collegiate in the only match played in the Premier Division of a raid-sodden programme they were winning the top-flight championship for the 16th time, 13 times in the old Division A, and the third time since the Premier Division was formed in 1999.
Elsecar were also completing a League and Cup double –they beat big rivals Wickersley in the final of the Whitworth Cup in early August – for the second year in succession.
It was also four succesess on the trot in the Whitworth Cup for the club.
The champions had put in a lot of pre-match work on their Armroyd Lane ground to make it playable for their penultimate match, against Collegiate, and they made 187-7, with Glenn Yates hitting 71 and Jason Meadows adding 53, before Collegiate closed on 97-8.
Wickersley, the only club with a mathematical chance of catching Elsecar, were rained off against visitors Treeton – which prevented any chance of the league's ace all rounder Treeton's Steve Foster, with over 1,000 runs to his credit, from becoming the league's highest ever scorer in a season, by beating the 1,285 tally of Norton Oakes' Mahmood Hamid set in 2003.
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Last Updated:
08 September 2008 9:53 AM
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