Owen leads successful run chase as Sandal open with derby win over Ossett
Sandal made a winning start to their Division One campaign when they chased down a 196 target to beat Ossett in a local derby opener in the Bradford Cricket League.
The winning run chase owed much to Sam Owen’s 73, which included eight fours, and overseas player Sasindu Malshan’s 41.
Umar Abbas (21no) and Sohail Hussain (22) also made valuable contributions while Oliver Eldridge took 2-33.
Saminda Ganwarige 50 was top scorer for Ossett, Josh Wild hit 33 and Jack Stevenson 31 as they made 195 after being put in.
Jonathan Boynton posed the main threat with 4-53 and Hussain claimed 3-19.
Carlton’s second season in the Premier started disappointingly when they were beaten by 43 runs at home to newly promoted Morley.
Overseas player Muhammad Junaid played a key role for the new Premiers as he made 91 and took 3-89.
Morley were reduced to 64-5 before Junaid and Sajid Azeem (59) revived their side with a sixth wicket stand of 113 which enabled them to post a score of 220 despite the efforts of new boy James Rogers (4-34), James Glynn (3-49) and Muhammad Tariq (2-32).
Carlton found the going tough when they batted and were all out for 177 although hard-hitting Farukh Alam hit an unbeaten 68 from 55 balls.
Naveed Malik contributed 30 and Dan White 29, but spinner Jude Roberts took 5-39 on debut for Morley.
Newly promoted Streethouse secured a comfortable six-wicket win over Spen Victoria in their first game in Division Two, dismissing them for just 63, with Zamurad Khan taking 4-17 and two wickets each for Ben Brown, Ismail Patel and Michael Bates.
Patel led the response with an unbeaten 23.
After relegation to Division Three, East Ardsley began their bid to bounce back with a 93-run success against Liversedge.
Shahzad Iqbal led the way with an excellent 74 that included nine fours and a six and they went on to post a 192 total despite the bowling of Jay Rajpurohit (5-54) with Harry Appleyard (34) also chipping in.
Liversedge were bowled out for 99 as Oliver Appleyard claimed 3-22, Iqbal 3-22 and Dan McTernan 2-2.
Wrenthorpe delivered the most emphatic result in the division as they bowled Brighouse out for just 53 before racing to a nine-wicket victory, with Alfie Holden making 35noWakefield St Michael’s edged a low-scoring contest against Crossbank Methodists, with Syed Shah Bukhari taking an outstanding 6-16 to help dismiss the visitors for 118.
A controlled chase then sealed victory, Rana Khan making 35 and Nazakat Hussain 32 in the three-wicket success.