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Gurman Randhawa, whose runs and wickets ensured a nailbiting victory for Yorkshire Academy

Left-hand spinner Gurman Randhawa, above, top-scored with 28 - and then weighed in with five wickets - as Yorkshire Academy scraped home by nine runs against Castleford in the Solly Sports ECB Yorkshire County Premier League.

Academy struggled after winning the toss and deciding to bat at Savile Park,and when skipper Alex Lees was run out by an excellent throw from Andy Bourke they were 42-5.

It was hoped that the later batsmen would dig in and reach a respectable total, but only Randhawa overtook the captain's 20, and seven batsmen failed to reach double figures.

David Wainwright picked up the last four wickets: he gave little away, bowling 20 overs for 29 runs, and 113 did look a great total to chase. Some injudicious shots and four lbws had not helped their cause.

Andy Bourke and Chris Young had an opening partnership of 32 for Castleford until Bourke fenced at Ben Coad delivery and was snapped up by wicket-keeper Barney Gibson. Young fell in similar fashion, and Wainwright was bowled by fellow left-armer Randhawa. Jack Hughes was introduced at the pavilion end, and Andrew Chadwick was another Gibson victim.

Suddenly Castleford were 79-6, and the pressure was on. Castleford skipper John Randerson fell to an excellent Lees catch off Randhawa, and an even better catch by Jack Hargreaves despatched Alex Romaniw. Chris Welburn was caught in the deep by Ashley Robinson, and Jason Pitcher, who had been excellent behind the stumps, was the last wicket to fall, bowled by Hughes.

An excellent team performance on a wicket that gave the spinners considerable help. Randhawa finished with the excellent figures of 5-33, and fellow spinner Hughes bowled 10.5 overs for a miserly 12 runs and three wickets.

Of 22 batsmen only seven reached double figures, but what a valuable 10th wicket stand of 28 by Coad, nine not out, and Ashley Robinson, 19. Another eight-point win for Academy.

Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League Castleford CC 1st XI v Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI

Saturday, June 12 2010 (12:00) at Savile Park

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI Won By 9 runs

Points: Castleford CC 1st XI: 0 Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI: 8

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI won toss and decided to bat

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI	Castleford CC 1st XI
113 all out (54.2 overs)	104 all out (42.5 overs)
3 Hours, 2 Minutes.	2 Hours, 22 Minutes.

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
Alex Lees*	run out (A Bourke)		20	61	82	1	0	32.79
Callum Geldart	lbw	b C Young	3	7	8	0	0	42.86
Irfan Amjad	lbw	b W Hodson	1	10	22	0	0	10.00
Jack Hargreaves		b W Hodson	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
Jack Hughes	c J Pitcher	b W Hodson	9	33	36	1	0	27.27
Alex Lilley	lbw	b C Welburn	11	51	53	0	0	21.57
Gurman Randhawa	c W Hodson	b D Wainwright	28	59	65	2	0	47.46
Moin Ashraf	lbw	b D Wainwright	6	13	11	1	0	46.15
Barney Gibson+		b D Wainwright	0	5	7	0	0	0.00
Ben Coad	not out		9	42	44	0	0	21.43
Ashley Robinson	c C Young	b D Wainwright	19	47	37	3	0	40.43
Extras	4nb 0w 3lb 0b 0pen		7
Provisional Score For Innings			113
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			113	all out

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
Chris Young	7.0	3	10	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	42.00	1.43
William Hodson	12.0	5	27	3	0 (0)	4 (4)	25.33	2.25
David Wainwright	20.2	6	29	4	0 (0)	0 (0)	30.50	1.43
Chris Welburn	9.0	1	28	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	54.00	3.11
Alex Romaniw	1.0	0	11	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	11.00
John Randerson	5.0	2	5	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	1.00

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
Callum Geldart	5-1	5	Callum Geldart (3) Alex Lees (2)	2.1
Irfan Amjad	19-2	14	Irfan Amjad (1) Alex Lees (12)	7.1
Jack Hargreaves	21-3	2	Jack Hargreaves (0) Alex Lees (0)	7.3
Jack Hughes	38-4	17	Jack Hughes (9) Alex Lees (5)	17.1
Alex Lees	42-5	4	Alex Lees (1) Alex Lilley (3)	20.4
Alex Lilley	63-6	21	Alex Lilley (8) Gurman Randhawa (12)	33.3
Moin Ashraf	70-7	7	Moin Ashraf (6) Gurman Randhawa (1)	36.4
Barney Gibson	74-8	4	Barney Gibson (0) Gurman Randhawa (4)	38.4
Gurman Randhawa	85-9	11	Gurman Randhawa (11) Ben Coad (0)	40.1
Ashley Robinson	113-10	28	Ashley Robinson (19) Ben Coad (9)	54.2

Castleford CC 1st XI

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
Chris Young	c B Gibson	b A Robinson	29	60	73	3	0	48.33
Andrew Bourke	c B Gibson	b B Coad	7	24	37	1	0	29.17
David Wainwright		b G Randhawa	4	18	27	0	0	22.22
Andrew Chadwick	c B Gibson	b J Hughes	12	43	47	1	0	27.91
Scott Hopkinson	c A Lees	b G Randhawa	1	8	6	0	0	12.50
William Hodson		b J Hughes	2	10	10	0	0	20.00
John Randerson*	c A Lees	b G Randhawa	11	27	30	0	0	40.74
Alex Romaniw	c J Hargreaves	b G Randhawa	3	23	18	0	0	13.04
Jason Pitcher+		b J Hughes	8	26	28	1	0	30.77
Chris Welburn	c A Robinson	b G Randhawa	6	8	7	1	0	75.00
Timothy Weaver	not out		1	13	11	0	0	7.69
Extras	3nb 5w 8lb 4b 0pen		20
Provisional Score For Innings			104
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			104	all out

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
Moin Ashraf	5.0	0	22	0	0 (0)	2 (2)	0.00	4.40
Ben Coad	6.0	3	6	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	36.00	1.00
Jack Hargreaves	3.0	0	13	0	1 (5)	1 (1)	0.00	4.33
Gurman Randhawa	15.0	2	33	5	0 (0)	0 (0)	18.00	2.20
Ashley Robinson	3.0	0	6	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	18.00	2.00
Jack Hughes	10.5	3	12	3	0 (0)	0 (0)	21.67	1.11

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
Andrew Bourke	32-1	32	Andrew Bourke (7) Chris Young (19)	9.2
David Wainwright	50-2	18	David Wainwright (4) Chris Young (8)	15.4
Chris Young	52-3	2	Chris Young (2) Andrew Chadwick (0)	18.1
Scott Hopkinson	53-4	1	Scott Hopkinson (1) Andrew Chadwick (0)	19.4
William Hodson	64-5	11	William Hodson (2) Andrew Chadwick (5)	22.3
Andrew Chadwick	79-6	15	Andrew Chadwick (7) John Randerson (8)	30.2
John Randerson	83-7	4	John Randerson (3) Alex Romaniw (1)	33.4
Alex Romaniw	90-8	7	Alex Romaniw (2) Jason Pitcher (5)	37.2
Chris Welburn	100-9	10	Chris Welburn (6) Jason Pitcher (0)	39.4
Jason Pitcher	104-10	4	Jason Pitcher (3) Timothy Weaver (1)	42.5