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1	Old Mods	107
2	Farsley	105
3	Crompark	80
4	Shipley Prov	71
5	Pudsey St Lawrence	65
6	Wibsey Park Chapel	60
7	Whitehall	54
8	Cookridge	38
9	Baildon Meths	28
10	Castlehill	22

16th September 2006

Whitehall's season finally limped to an end today, and as much of the
season it ended with a bit of a whimper, although they finally ended their
run without a win. As Castlehill couldn't field a team.

26th August 2006

Whitehall battle to earn a hard earned point against title chasing
Farsley. Farsley set a mammoth 270 in their 45 overs. Although both
Bondy and Aidan claimed their first Whitehall wickets. And as Whitehall
were 22-8 when Steve and Woody came together with plenty of overs
to go. Steve and Woody put on a record 9th wicket partnership to see
Whitehall nearly to the point, when Steve threw his wicket away,
bringing Phil White to the crease, although Phil was dropped first ball
Whitehall scraped through, after Woody survived a very very close
LBW call from the games very final ball.

22nd July 2006

Whitehall's winning run ends as Shipley Providence win by 8 wickets.
Whitehall were dismissed for 89 with Simon scoring an unbeaten 26,
but Whitehall fail to stop Shipley as Joe and Simon only take 1 wicket
each.

19th July
Club man Antony Petch was today celebrating as his girlfriend gave
birth to their first child, Eleanor.

I'm sure everyone involved with the club will want to pass on their
congratulations and wish them all the best and we'll have a drink to
celebrate as soon a possible.

15th July 2006

Whitehall finally click in the field, and more importantly Simon takes his
first wickets of July as he ends with figures of 5-35, and Bhaven Mistri
took 3 catches, to keep Cookridge to 94.

Whitehall's chase is lead by returning Richard Francis who scored 38
runs, and Bob Finch completed the job with a quick fire unbeaten 20 to
see Whitehall home by 5 wickets

8th July 2006

Whitehall reduced Crompark to 146 thanks to good bowling spells from
Joe who ended with 4 wickets and Paul with 5.

However Whitehall were reduced to 32-5 before Bhaven Mistri made 79
on his debut to guide Whitehall towards the win, Michael Wood chipped
in with an unbeaten 26, and Anthony Petch scored the winning runs in
a tense finish.

1st July 2006

Again Whitehall's early season fielding from is missing and Pudsey St
Lawrence make 191 runs.

However Whitehall set a new club Dales Council record in chasing the
total and winning by 8 wickets

Unfortunately Dean hurts his knee and could miss a few weeks.

25th June 2006
Whitehall's season seemed to crash and burn as they lose to basement
club Castlehill.

A long day in the field saw Castlehill amass 189 runs and Whitehall fell
70 runs short.

17th June 2006

Whitehall battled hard with the bat to get a losing draw in what was a
disappointing day in deepest darkest Bradford. After Wibsey posted
251-5. In response Whitehall managed to hold out, and a wonderful
partnership between Paul and Simon, Paul fell one run short of a
deserved 50, much to the delight of the opposition.

In the same game Martin suffered a nasty injury that could see him miss
the rest of the season.

10th June 2006

Whitehall's season got back on track with a hard fought 2 wicket win
over Shipley Providence. Shipley managed to get to 112, although after
being 80 odd for 2 will be annoyed the didn't score more, the catalyst
for Whitehall's come back was Chris spell of 5 overs which included 3
maidens and ended with 3 wickets for only 8 runs, Simon at the other
end took 6-47.
Whitehall's chase was well built and included gritty innings from Dunne,
Bainbridge and Dockerty before Mace and Wood saw the job through.
Report here.

4th June 2006

Whitehall crashed out of the cup today losing by 9 wickets at Becketts
Park to squatters Halifax Direct. Whitehall only managed to get to 53.
Dave Bond and Joe Bainbridge topped scored for Whitehall with 12
runs each. Halifax's response was only spoilt by a stunning catch from
Tony Thompson of Phil White's bowling.

3rd June 2006

Whitehall today threw away the chance to place themselves in the
middle of the title race with a 18 run defeat away to Farsley. Simon
Mace took 7-37 with Joe Bainbridge chipping in with 3-33 to restrict
Farsley to 105, however a string of poor shots and unlucky decisions
meant Whitehall collapsed from 49-1 to 87 all out with the Wright family
supplying the only players with double figure, Mick with 14 and Dean
with 13. Find the full report here.

27th May 2006

Whitehall today claimed their second win of the season with a 4 wicket
win over Castlehill. A game that could have gone either was throughout
the afternoon, with both sides dominating periods of play. But thanks to
a solid innings of 31, Mick Wright helped Whitehall home, aided by a
quickfire 20 from Aidan Dunne and a streaky 18 no from Michael Wood.

This followed a good bowling performance by Simon Mace, who ended
with figures of 5-35, with Joe Bainbridge finishing with 3-26 and Chris
Thompson was unlucky not to have a wicket after a good spell. The
other 2 wickets were the result of run outs, 1 from Martin Palmer and a
fielding point winning effort by Paul Dockerty. See the full report here.

Next up for Whitehall is early season leaders Farsley, who beat Baildon
Meths convincingly by 162 runs. Wibsey only managed a winning draw
after failing to dismiss Shipley Providence in their game.

20th May 2006

For the 2nd week running our game has was called off. The pitch at
Priesthorpe School, home of Pudsey St Lawrence was clearly
unplayable and would have been very dangerous to play on.

18th May 2006

The 2nd round of the Pool Paper Mills cup has been made, and
perhaps unsurprisingly we've been drawn away to our lodgers Halifax
Direct. The tie will be played on the 4th June 2006, and will be at

The draw in full:-

New Farnley v Cookridge
Crompark v Adel
Esholt v Leeds Sikh
Kirkstall Educational v Meanwood
Pudsey Congs v Rodley
Halifax Direct v Whitehall
Baildon Meths v Castlehill
Mount v Hawksworth

13th May 2006

Our game today was called off before any play could get underway
after the Umpire had deemed the pitch unplayable. This decision seems
even more ridiculous when you consider Baildon Meths B v Rodley
were about to get underway after a short delay with the pitch all of 50
yards away, Shipley Providence B were playing Old Mods down by the
canal, and on the other side of Bradford Wibsey were playing Farsley.
You can't help thinking that we've lost out on 4 points so people could
watch the cup final.

10th May 2006

We finally appear to have a date for the rearrange fixture with
Crompark at Becketts Park, the game should take place on 16th July
2006 subject to league approval. The day before we play Cookridge
also at Becketts Park.

8th May 2006

Also good news about the Cookridge game, we have got 2 points from
the fixture rather than just the 1 as originally thought. This is because
according to league rule 16a any game that has started and then has
to be reduced due to rain, results in both teams getting 2 points and
the team with the better run rate will receive an extra 2 points, so
Cookridge took 4 points from the game.

8 points from our first 2 games against 2 strong sides is a very good
start to the season.

7th May 2006

We now have a message board, hosted by some people called
ProBoards, it looks pretty good, and fairly easy to use, it looks like you
need to register to use it, but it only took me a minute to register so its
not great effort. Mr Robert Finch suggested this feature for the website
so all your thanks need to be given to him.

6th May 2006

Whitehall win their first game of the 2006 season with an excellent 6
wicket win over Wibsey Park Chapel. Joe took 7 wickets for 43 runs and
Simon took 3 for economic 26 runs as we limited the early season pace
setters to 74 runs. With the bat Dean scored a well constructed 25
before being unluckily given out LBW and Aidan chipped in with a
useful 20 as Whitehall chased down Wibsey's score in a rain affected
innings. Full report can be found here.

17th February 2006

The 2006 Pool Paper Mills Cup First round draw was made, and for the
2nd year running we have been blessed with a bye into the 2nd round.
The draw in full:
Wibsey Park Chapel v Hawksworth
Baildon Meths v Farnley Hill
Old Modernians v Crompark
Farsley v Mount
New Wortley v Castlehill
Pudsey St Lawrence v Meanwood
Shipley Providence v Kirkstall Educational
Byes: Rodley, Leeds Sikh, Cookridge, Pudsey Congs, Halifax Direct, Esholt,
Whitehall, Adel and New Farnley.