Cricket

Opener Jamie Taylor helped himself to a huge score of 185 in a dominant Long Sutton 2nd victory on Saturday. Taylor’s monstrous innings came in Sutton’s whopping 229-run win over Sleaford 3rd in South Lincs and Border League Division Two – which fired them to the top of the table. Having been put into bat, Sutton made their visitors toil ...

  Victories for Skegness and Spalding saw them stay in first and second places in the South Lincolnshire and Border League Premier Division on Saturday. Skegness are nine points ahead but Spalding have a game in hand which they will catch up this weekend following Saturday’s 16 run victory over Grantham 2nd.  Spalding could manage only 117 runs but Grantham ...

Spalding clinically made short work of thrashing Welby Cavaliers on Saturday before the rain rolled in. The majority of South Lincolnshire and Borders Premier Division games were abandoned due to the late afternoon weather. But by the time the rain arrived in Welby, Spalding had already earned the 20 points after skittling the hosts out for just 71. After taking ...

After weeks of being rained off, Pinchbeck opened their season with a heavy defeat to Graves Park in the South Lincolnshire and Border League Cup on Saturday. Division One side Graves took a shine to their lower league opponents’ bowling and smashed a huge 362 for 5 from their 40 overs. Opener Chris King led from the off with his ...

It was a frustrating weekend for Long Sutton as they left Boston 2nd 158 all out in the South Lincolnshire and Border League Premier Division but were denied the chance to claim a first win of the season by the weather. Sutton put the visitors to Paradise Field in and worked hard to restrict them starting with Barry Stanway (1-14) ...

A stunning nearly run-a-ball century by Carl Andrews was a bright spark amid a rain hit Saturday for Spalding Town’s 2nd and 3rd XIs on Saturday. Skippering Spalding 3rd on Saturday, Andrews hit 18 fours in his 109 ball 103 in the South Lincolnshire and Borders League Division Two clash against Grantham 3rd. There was also a particularly fruitful partnership ...

Lincolnshire County Cricket Club commenced their 2018 season with two matches against Northumberland at Jesmond in the newly introduced Unicorns T20 competition. The competition now requires the teams to play two matches in a day. In the first match Lincolnshire were put in to bat and their innings was dominated by Louis Kimber who scored 162 not out from 55 ...

Spalding Town continued their red-hot start to the South Lincs and Border League Premier Division season with a big 171-run win over Billingborough on Saturday. Half-centuries from Jonathan Miles (63) and skipper Josh Newton (51) steered Spalding to 216 all out in 44 overs at Billingborough, before Julian Wilson’s 6-25 knocked over the hosts for just 45. The win leaves ...

Impressive knocks from Jack Barnett and Ansar Hussain helped Moulton Harrox record their first South Lincs and Border League Division One win of the season on Saturday. Harrox eased to a 149-run triumph over hosts Heckington, having posted an imposing 224-4 batting first. Despite losing Steven Rushworth (9) and Louis Greetham (3) early on – both run out by Harry ...

Skegness lead the Premier Division of the South Lincolnshire and Border League with Spalding Town eight points behind but with a game in hand. Both sides had a successful weekend, as did third placed Sleaford 2nd, Skegness bowling Bourne 2nd out for 66 and going on to win by eight wickets. Josh Newton hit 51 for Spalding and Jonathan Miles ...

Lincolnshire County Cricket Club enter the 2018 season as reigning Unicorns Eastern Division champions and 2017 Knockout Trophy finalists. The club will be looking to secure the Eastern Division title for a third successive year, having done so in 2016 and 2017. The county club have retained their previous successful management structure with Chris Keywood (Chairman), Chris Farmer (Chief Executive), ...

Skipper Josh Newton scored a stellar century as Spalding Town kicked off their South Lincs and Border League Premier Division season with a dominant 160-run over Boston 2nd on Saturday. Number four Newton made 103 not out at the Mayflower as he shared a stand of 123 with debutant Joe Broomfield (70) in Town’s total of 278-4 from 45 overs. ...

South Lincs and Border League round-up by Ann Boulton Sleaford 2nd won the battle of last year’s top two South Lincolnshire & Border League clubs with a 38 run victory over Woodhall Spa 2nd but it was Woodhall’s Matt Haslam who stole the glory, kicking off the season with bowling figures of eight for 22. Spalding Town also got off ...

The South Lincs and Border League Cricket season returns this weekend – and four South Holland sides are in action. Spalding Town 1st, relegated from the Lincs ECB Premier League last year, begin their bid for SLBL Premier Division glory with a trip to Boston 2nd (1pm). They’ll be rivalled by Long Sutton 1st in the league’s top tier this ...

Former Spalding Town Cricket Club stalwart Jimmy Clarke has won the coveted Middlesex Coach of the year award for 2017. Clarke left Spalding behind last year to move to London and take up a role with Winchmore Hill CC. Having also won East Midlands coach of the year in 2014, the ex-Town ace is aiming to take his new team ...

Dominant Long Sutton completed a fine double on Sunday as they cruised to glory in the SLBL Cup final. Barry Stanway (5-31) and Rob Simpson (4-2) ripped through the Skegness 2nd batting line-up at Boston, bowling them out for just 78 in 26.1 overs. That set the stage for an eight-wicket success for SLBL Division One winners Sutton, with skipper ...

Buoyant skipper Phil Barnes wants his Long Sutton side to finish their South Lincs and Border League season with a flourish this weekend. Division One champions Sutton round off their season with a home league game against Boston 3rd on Saturday (1pm), before taking on Skegness 2nd in the final of the SLBL Cup at Boston on Sunday (1pm). Sutton ...

A super knock of 77 from Warren Nel couldn’t stop Spalding Town losing the penultimate game of their Lincs ECB Premier League season by five wickets at Boston. Already-relegated Town posted a very respectable 184-8 batting first at the Mayflower, having been put into bat by their hosts. However, despite Brandon Andrews taking 3-46 to reduce Boston to 24-3 in ...

Spalding Town’s relegation from the Lincs ECB Premier Division was confirmed on Saturday after a six-wicket defeat at high-flying Grantham. Having won the toss and elected to bat, Spalding were bowled out for just 119 in 38.5 overs with Jordan Butcher (37) top scoring. Grantham then knocked off the runs in 24 overs, despite three more wickets from the ever-impressive ...

Jubilant captain Phil Barnes feels Long Sutton are now back where they belong after clinching the South Lincs and Border League Division One title on Saturday. Barnes led from the front as he top scored with 74 in Sutton’s solid score of 227-5 against South Holland rivals Moulton Harrox at Paradise Field, before watching on as Steve Milnes (4-20), Rob ...