Greenfield CC v Bamford Fieldhouse CC

Saturday 1st Sept 2007:
1st X1 home v Bamford CC - lost
Bamford 155 all out  : Greenfield 103 all out
P Gill 5 for 25        J Bennett 31

2nd X1 away v Bamford CC - won
Greenfield 213 for 8 : Bamford 103 all out
R Hepworth 59          A Dearden 3 for 8
P Sullivan 32          J Ashton 2 for 4, G Jones 2 for 6
A Dearden 31           J Higgins 2 for 11

Saturday 23rd June 2007:
1st X1 away v Bamford Fieldhouse 1st X1 - lost
2nd X1 home v Bamford Fieldhouse 2nd X1 - won

Saturday 15th May 2004
Greenfield 1st X1 @ Greenfield: MATCH SPONSOR - JOHN FITZGERALD
Bamford have assembled an impressive team of 'amateurs' with their pro, Lincoln Roberts, scoring
240no on the first day of the season.
One Manchester paper suggested that Roberts was likely to fill his boots at the 'small' Greenfield ground!
Well he must take a size 11s because that's all he'd scored when he fished at a blinding outswinger from 16 year old Mark Lees and was caught behind by Ste Bottom -  but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Greenfield won the toss & batted first and scored 197 for 8 based on a patient partnership of 97 between
Chris Moore (70 runs) & Jon Taylor (43 runs) against some accurate Bamford bowling.
The second wicket fell in the 35th over at 125 for 2 so it was left to the remaining batsmen to fill Greenfield's boots.
Some did - Mabs 32 runs and Mark Lees 15no helped take the score to 197 for 8.

Enter the Bamford big shots, Lincoln Roberts out for 11 & then a stand involving Richard Heaton, ex Delph amateur, & J Horrocks that took them to 71 for 2.
A couple more wickets fell but Heaton was still in on 51 & looked like winning it for Bamford until Mark Lees came back
for his second spell. Heaton tried to hoick the ball for straight 6 but it travelled up toward the boundary in front of the benches & Jon Ainley was underneath it! A fantastic catch that was the turning point of the match.
From 131 for 5, Bamford were all out for 163.

Greenfield bowling:
S Mahboob: 22 overs - 10 maidens-  43 runs - 4 wickets
M Lees: 10 overs - 1 maiden - 51 runs - 3 wickets
Ben Johnson: 11.1 overs - 1 maiden - 55 runs - 2 wickets

A great all round performance from the Greenfield team with some excellent fielding throughout the side - & without Gilly who was unavoidably detained in 'Gay Paree'.
Greenfield win - 19 points.