In the final day of the 2022 season, Burnley 2nd XI were away at Lowerhouse CC. Their closest rivals for the league were Clitheroe CC who were away at Colne CC.

Lowerhouse won the toss and elected to bat in the game against Burnley. They got a total of 181/8 off 45 overs with both George Durkin (58) and Declan Metcalf (60) scoring over 50. Wickets taken by Matthew Thornton (3) Muhammad Sudees (2) Daniel Whittle (1) Ben Sutcliffe (1) and Steve Brunt (1)

Clitheroe won the toss and elected to field. Colne then put on 194/9 off their 45 overs with T Jamie scoring 60 and wickets taken by G Barney’s (4), T Thurnhill (2) L Murphy (2) and B Geelan (1)

After teas were finished both teams took to the field to go for the glory.

Burnley lost 1 wicket quite early on putting them at 5/1 when Matthew Tomlinson was dismissed, but then Burnley put on an impressive batting performance getting up to 186/5 in 35.3 overs thanks in part to an impressive 96 from 77 balls by Gareth Halley.

In Clitheroe’s second half they only managed 50 all out in 19.3 overs

Burnley therefore got 10 points and Clitheroe 0 points

Burnley 2nd’s bringing the title home!

Congratulations to all involved

All figures taken from Play-Cricket.com

https://burnley.play-cricket.com/website/results/5000283