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Cricket

A Prince among men

LANCASHIRE CCC have announced that South African Test batsman Ashwell Prince will be the club’s interim overseas player for the start of the 2010 season.

The 32-year-old will join the club from the start of the season and will stay until the arrival of Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara once he completes his commitments at the ICC Twenty20 World Cup and the proposed Asia Cup.

Tale of two all-rounders

WERNETH took the derby honours as they won Sunday’s Lake Garage CLL derby against Royton at the Coppice with eight wickets down.

Derby bid abandoned

RAIN was the winner as Sunday’s Lake Garage CLL action saw all the games bar one curtailed by the afternoon showers.

A milestone

UPPERMILL batsman Zeeshan Khan became the first player to pass 1,000 runs in last weekend’s Armstrongs Saddleworth and District Cricket League fixtures.

Rain wrecks the Alliance cup final

AFTER last weekend’s exciting finish to the Ashton and Oldham Cricket Alliance league season, last weekend’s cup games disappointing fell foul of the weather.