Home Sport Cricket

Skem on the brink

SKELMERSDALE are just a win away from promotion to the Liverpool Competition after defeating in-form Prescot in style.Read

Class shows as Kirk win Echo Knockout

IT was almost, if not quite, all over by half time, with Ormskirk holding a 44-run advantage after the sides’ first innings.Read

Ormskirk 1st innings

M Glayzer lbw TambeRead

EVERYONE A WINNER

OPPOSING captains Phil Armstrong and Adam Waterhouse left the Echo Cup arena on Sunday with their sights set on even bigger targets this weekend.Read

Rampant Rainford move up

RAINFORD completed an eight-wicket win over Caldy to ensure promotion to the Liverpool & District Competition.Read

Kirk win K.O. by one run

BROOK LANE cricket ground may have witnessed many classic encounters down the decades, but for sheer drama Ormskirk’s last ball victory over Northern in a pulsating Echo Knockout semi-final could not be bettered.Read

Skem bounce back

WHAT a difference a week makes!Read

Great season - if only final could be played

BURSCOUGH look set to finish in their highest-ever position since joining the Merseyside-Southport Alliance.Read

Rainford get their kicks with a rout of 66

RAINFORD continued their march towards the Liverpool Competition with a 66-run victory at Parkfield.Read

Advertiser Trophy this weekend

THE stage is set for one of the highlights of the local crown green bowling calendar, the Ormskirk Advertiser Trophy.Read

A fight to the finish

IT’S an unholy alliance on the cricket front as two local teams enter the closing overs of a see-saw battle for promotion.Read

Super stand gives Kirk easy victory

MATTY Glayzer and John Armstrong shared in a season’s best partnership for any Ormskirk wicket this season.Read

Too big a task to catch leaders

“EFFECTIVELY we are now up against it,” admitted skipper Adam Waterhouse after Monday’s 31-run defeat at Northern left Ormskirk 30 points adrift of Competition leaders New Brighton.Read

Rainford blow away rivals

RAINFORD cemented their position at the top of the Merseyside & Southport Alliance with two bank holiday weekend wins over fellow title contenders Alder and Skelmersdale.Read

Smith the saviour?

CHRIS Smith is recalled to the Ormskirk first team which visits leaders New Brighton on Saturday, a ‘must win’ game if Brook Lane is to retain any championship aspirations.Read

Can’t wait for the football!

MOORGATE travelled to Churchtown for what was in effect a match with no bearing. And so it proved.Read

Confident for Shield final

BURSCOUGH Cricket Club first team go into Sunday’s Sandhurst Shield final boosted by a terrific Bank Holiday double.Read

Ormskirk

M Glayzer ct M Rimmer b MillerRead

Kirk on course to keep Echo Cup

ORMSKIRK’S defence of their Echo Cup crown is still on course after beating Southport by eight runs in the only match to survive a rain-bedevilled weekend.Read

Three matches in make or break weekend

“EVERY week seems to be a defining week of our season,” said Ormskirk skipper Adam Waterhouse as he prepares to take his team into three games in as many days.Read

Explore Sport

Sport

Forums

Sport

Have Your Say

Get in the game... discuss the latest Skelmersdale sports news, and results in our Sports Forum. Read

Get Involved

We want your local stories, videos & pics.