Twilly 9 for stuns St Annes

Taken from the guardian

An incredible 9 wicket haul from 15 year old Tom Williamson meant back to back victories for Danny Welbourne's men. On a slow, low pitch with long outfield, David Bartholomew inserted the home side hoping for early inroads. Wellers and Twilly, however, put together a solid opening stand against the new ball. Tom Bolus, who did the damage for the visitors taking 4-39, removed the openers, Welbourne top scoring in the innings with 35. After losing numbers 3, 4 and 5 cheaply, experienced Mike Armstrong weighed in with an unbeaten 30 shepherding the lower order towards a modest total of 125 as wickets fell with great regularity at the other end. St Annes aided by the medium pace of Bartholomew (3-25) cleaning up the tail.

That total looked even more modest after tea, as St Annes openers Emsley and Kiruparan put on 40 without loss. The pitch certainly called for pace to be taken off the ball and the introduction of Williamson certainly signalled that. In partnership with Dan 'Chammy' Chambers, who played an important holding role bowling from the other end, he tore through St Annes batting line-up through attacking the stumps. 7 of his 9 victims were either lbw or bowled paying testament to this fact.

Tom Bolus backed up his performance with the ball by trying to ressurect the innings with Bartholomew. However Twilly eventually removed Bolus and Phil Sparrow took care of the visiting skipper in the only other wicket that didn't fall to the left arm spinner. It was fitting that the final wicket fell caught and bowled to Williamson, whose figures of 16 overs 9 wickets for 15 runs will stand the test of time. Backed by a tidy fielding performance, Lancaster won by 24 runs and claimed their second 15 point win in as many games to go within 4 points of Preston above them with a game in hand. Well done the boys!

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