JOE CONCEDES IT

BROADWATER captain Joe Middleton gave up the chase for Findon's league title after his side failed to bowl out a victory at Pagham while the champions won convincingly at home to Arundel on Saturday.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Aug 2004, 19:34 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:00 BST

Middleton said: "They don't need many points now. We'll do our best to hold onto second place, which would be an improvement on our third last season."

While Findon's opening pair of Graham Waller (43) and Richard Iago (70) were breaking the back of a six-wicket win, former Goring and Brighton & Hove opener Richard Luker was improving on a 22-year-old club SIL record with an unbeaten 131 off 135 deliveries.

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The previous record was John Schofield's 122. Just as Broadwater thought, at 90, they should be warning Luker of his impending ton, he socked off-spinner Sean Rutter for two succesive sixes.

Luker was one short of the division's season-high, the 132 not out by Graham Dean of Ifield '” who are Broadwater's visitors on Saturday. Dean has 554 league runs, Luker 552.

Losing left-arm spinner Ian Timms to injury, Broadwater simply replaced him with leg-break veteran Tony Alcott.

He and leftie-slowie Paul Thurston collected seven of the eight Pagham wickets to fall as their 227 for eight finished short of Broadwater's 243 for three in just 43.3 overs. Pagham batted deeper than expected.

Findon were preparing for their trip to South Wales by promoting John Cox to No 4 and starting the game an hour early at 1pm.

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