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- Leader Live
Brymbo and Gwersyllt Park up for the cup... and the league!
The rivals will return to 50-over Premier Division action on Saturday, before they face each other on Sunday in a big Welsh Cup showdown. It's Brymbo who will have home advantage for that match-up and the winners will join Colwyn Bay as North Wales' representatives in the quarter-finals. Brymbo skipper Dan Parry is anticipating a tough encounter in the cup and he said: 'They have got dangerous men. The overseas has found his feet. 'They have got a few of our old players in Ryan Collier and Jake James that are very dangerous. 'Then you've got the wily Iroshan de Silva.' As an added bonus, the winners know they will receive home comforts in the last-eight, with Pontarddulais their opponents. It's possible Brymbo could claim the North Wales Cricket League and Welsh Cup crowns before the summer is out, but Parry has stressed: 'I would say don't get too far ahead of ourselves! 'We have still got eight more weeks to go.' Of immediate concern is getting into a 50-over frame of mind on the back of a month of T20 action, with Brymbo returning to the longer format with tomorrow's match-up at home to Denbigh. 'I think it's going to be interesting to see how people are going to tackle the powerplay,' said Parry. 'We have had a bit of a chat about it. It's going to be back to how we were.' Brymbo are expected to make two changes for Saturday's side, with an additional amendment to Sunday's side. Gwersyllt Park will warm-up for their cup derby with tomorrow's trip to tackle Mochdre. With the T20 points now shared out, the race for the Premier Division title has just got a lot tighter. There's just eight points separating leaders Bangor from defending champions Mochdre, who are down in fifth. Northop are in sixth position and they will play host to third-placed St Asaph tomorrow. Northop skipper Bart Ryan-Beswick offered his congratulations to Bangor on winning the T20 league, while he's looking forward to the return to 50-over action. He said: "Good game upcoming this weekend and we have a strong team at home to face St Asaph." Front-runners Bangor are at Conwy and Menai Bridge, who are fourth, travel to basement side Bethesda. As with the top flight, at enthralling battle for the Division One title is also taking place. Leaders Mold are involved in the match of the day tomorrow as they pay a visit to third-placed Llandudno. Halkyn, in second position, make the trip to Pontblyddyn, while fourth-placed Hawarden Park are aiming to make home comforts count versus Mochdre Seconds. Long treks are in the offing for Connah's Quay and Northop Seconds, against Bangor Seconds and Dolgellau respectively. Meanwhile, Gresford will have home advantage for their derby clash with Brymbo Seconds. Division Two: Abergele v Llay; Llanrwst v Carmel & District; Menai Bridge 2nds v Marchwiel and Wrexham; Pwllheli v Corwen; Ruthin v Pontblyddyn 2nds; St Asaph 2nds v Buckley. Division Three: Bersham v Abergele 2nds; Buckley 2nds v Conwy 2nds; Caernarfon v Gresford 2nds; Denbigh 2nds v Hawarden Park 2nds; Gwersyllt Park 2nds v Llandudno 2nds; Mold 2nds v Bethesda 2nds. Division Four: Brymbo 3rds v Hawarden Park 3rds, Carmel & District 2nds v Bala; Connah's Quay 2nds v Pwllheli 2nds; Halkyn 2nds v Llanrwst 2nds; Marchwiel and Wrexham 2nds v Bersham 2nds; Mynydd Isa & Maeshafn v Ruthin 2nds.
Edinburgh Reporter
an hour ago
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Macdonald bolsters East tennis men
East of Scotland tennis men pulled as rabbit out of the hat today going into a GB Summer County Cup clash with Northamptonshire at Eastbourne which could be crucial to their chances of remaining in the top flight, Division One. Linking up with the squad and going straight into action is Alan Macdonald, GB veterans team member and current doubles coach to Jamie Murray. Macdonald is a long established county week regular. Macdonald was initially unavailable but finds himself partnering Sam McNeil after East lost ground in as 3-6 defeat by Warwickshire having won their opening match. East may have gone down yesterday but it was tantalisingly close with both the Scott Duncan/Euan McIntosh and Lance Nisbet/James MacKinlay combinations losing out in deciding tie-breaks. Meanwhile, East women were due to face North Wales in Group Four at Cheltenham having added the scalp of Norfolk (5-4) to an opening day victory over Lincolnshire (8-1). After the first round of matches East led 3-0 and looked to be cruising but it took a comfortable final round win for Sarah McFadyen and Shaylin Holt to get them over the line. Like this: Like Related
BBC News
3 hours ago
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Middlesex wear down Northants to seal innings win
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Northwood (day four)Middlesex 625-8 dec: Holden 151, Williamson 114, Du Plooy 105, Cracknell 73; Zaib 3-70Northamptonshire 261 & 257: Keogh 61*; Higgins 3-54Middlesex (24pts) beat Northants (2pts) by an innings and 107 scorecard Middlesex's bowlers wore down heroic Northamptonshire resistance to close out an emphatic victory by an innings and 107 runs deep into the final session of day four at Merchant Taylors' Keogh defied the hosts attack for almost five hours despite being struck for a second time on the finger he damaged while fielding on day one to make a gutsy unbeaten 61, while Saif Zaib also battled through pain to add 44 to his 82 of the first was even a last-wicket stand of 47 between Keogh and Yuzvendra Chahal to further frustrate the Seaxes, but in the end for Ryan Higgins' 3-54 (seven in the match) and a maiden first-class wicket for Ben Geddes bowled out the visitors for hopes of frustrating the host's victory push were dealt an early blow when Lewis McManus, having played one delicious extra cover drive tried to leave a ball from Roland-Jones, only for it to cannon off the under edge and send his off-stump wicket became two in the next over, Tom Helm beating George Bartlett twice in successive balls before banging in a short one which the batter skied obligingly to Roland-Jones at now rested on the shoulders of all-rounders Zaib and Keogh. Zaib picked up where he'd left off in the first innings, Keogh meanwhile took 18 balls to get off the mark and was then struck on his already damaged digit by a ball from Higgins but carried on after lengthy treatmentDeprived of spinner Zafar Gohar due to the arm injury picked up fielding on day three and with a soft Kookaburra ball offering no help to the Middlesex seamers, the stoic resistance of the Steelbacks continued on the as frustration looked to be setting in, Tom Helm found some extra bounce and Zaib feathered an edge through to Joe the defiance continued with Ben Sanderson, on a pair from the first innings, battling for over an hour for his 12 and guiding Northamptonshire to the sanctuary of the new ball imminent, Ben Geddes was introduced to speed up its arrival and promptly found the edge of Sanderson's bat with his third ball, Higgins taking a smart catch at took the ripe cherry in hand to remove Guthrie, before an entertaining last-wicket stand that saw Keogh reach a thoroughly deserved on a king pair played a glorious off-drive and a few other less conventional shots to reach 20, but Cornwell rearranged his stumps to clinch victory with 25 overs left. Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
