Skelmanthorpe Home, 24/7/10.
After last weeks victory against relegation bound Holmfirth the tables still suggested at least another 2 victories would be needed to secure premiership status for 2011. The visitors to Hill Top this week were Skelmanthorpe or these days more commonly referred to
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A tropical Bank Holiday Monday at Hill Top saw a bottom of the table clash as Slawit played host to 2nd from bottom Barkisland in the first of the double header games. Boothy won the toss and had no doubts to bat first on a
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As players, officials & supporters arrived at Skelmanthorpe they were greeted with what seemed like sub zero temperatures. If you were a slawit fan things got worse as Wasim Jaffer rolled up in his new automobile kindly provided by Shat with his name emblazoned upon
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Sat 27th June 2009
Meltham 188ao vs Slaithwaite 191-3
A glorious day at Meltham’s miniature version of the Leeds Road Playing Fields, blighted by the stark backdrop of what looks like a Church for Latter Day Saints. What was once an enjoyable place to play
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Slaithwaite were left frustrated at Almondbury on Saturday, having to settle for two points each, as they were beaten by the rain.
Unable to rely on our usual scribe, away on a "Stag" weekend, our First Team reported back to the Editor that they posted
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Kirkburton 80 vs Slaithwaite 83-0
Return of the Matt (Garrety). Briefly. Following Gazza’s mental aberration at Riley Lane he was unlikely to make any surprise decisions after calling correctly here and predictably chose to bat. However, a bit of juice in the wicket suggested some
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Saturday 19th July.
Slaithwaite 272-4 vs Primrose Hill (& Wakefield City) 46
The new recruits from Wakefield look a handy bunch, and might cause a few teams problems. However, they didn’t make a blind bit of difference to this result.
Hill stuck us in on
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Saturday 12th july
Paddock 65 vs Slaithwaite 68-0
Paddock? More like Haddock. Another maximum for the grown ups against another side “missing a few”. The tried and tested method of tight bowling and fielding creating pressure on the batting side and forcing them into shots
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Saturday 5th July.
Rastrick 59 vs Slaithwaite 61-1
Another brief gap in the monsoon allowed an equally brief encounter with a Rastrick side apparently bereft of half the side that trounced Marsden last week. However, you can only beat what’s in front of you and
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Saturday 28th June
Slaithwaite 132 vs Kirkheaton 106
Damp once again, as we’re becoming increasingly accustomed during the Monsoon season previously known as British Summer Time. However, the weather Gods must have gone to the races today as the conditions were ‘drying’and, with the wicket
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