Burnley v Accrington Cup 1st Round
By Matthew Donnelly
Innings of Burnley
Accrington got of to a great start in only the second over W. Ahmed claimed our first wicket. Things got even better when spinner J. Duckett claimed another wicket. At the end of the over Burnley had a score of 191.

The next pair came in and managed not to get out and also got 9 runs. 2 more in and Boom! Straight away S. Hussain claimed his wicket for the match from there on things went down hill. This pair put on 15 runs.

Well if you thought that was good the next 2 put on 21. They finally finished on 247. Credit to Burnley's Nathan Whitehead who hit 21. Now it was Accrington's turn to show the viewers some real batting!

Again we got to view some outstanding batting from W. Ahmed who was paired up with P. Green. Altogether they got 14 but on the last ball W. Ahmed got out.

Next up the newcomers from the Under 11's where in they batted brilliantly. Williams got 5 and Hanson got 4. It was a top class innings of batting from the 2. Next it was S. Hussain a class batter full of confidence, he hit 4 four's. Partnering him was J. Duckett another newcomer to this age league, he batted well and wasn't out, from my point of view he was man of the match for is bowling and batting.

Now it was the last two's turn, they came on ready to defend a 12 runs lead we knew that if we got out once the pressure was back on and it was up to me M. Donnelly & D. Cronshaw, by opinion the two worst batters of last year. What made it worse it had gone very dark and also they put their best bowlers on. We batted out three overs and managed to get 1 and a few byes. Then the last over came if we got out twice we would have lost.

(Crony) D. Cronshaw was on strike I said just play straight he did and the last ball came we couldn't lose it was a free ball really. The bowler bowled it, it went wide we definitely had won he bowled again Crony hit it right to a fielder and called yes we ran the fielder chucked it to my end I slid in looked at the umpire, he shook his head.

Light finally shone on Burnley C.C. it could have been Turf Moor or maybe just Accrington Under 13's C.C. We just got victory in the Dark! That got us through to the next round.