East Bierley Cricket Club

East Bierley Cricket Club Bonfire Night is back! 🏡🎇🎆🔥😃

Saturday 7 November 2026 is the date for your diary! 📝✅️

Tickets will go on sale in the coming weeks — keep your eyes peeled for the announcement 👀

Don’t miss out when tickets go live — each year this event has sold out quickly! 🏃‍♂️💨🎫

A huge thank you to our sponsors, Tyre Power, for supporting the event for yet another year and backing us all year round 🙌🏻

Apologies for lack of draws recently. Been a busy few months.

July and August were drawn consecutively at the club. Congratulations to all winners. Moneys will be paid later this afternoon.

Your 100 club winners for July are:

£100 - 36 - Ian Ormondroyd
£50 - 25 - Matt Anderson

£100 - 80 - Carol Booth
£50 - 11 - Gareth Davis

£100 - 74 - Kevin Holdsworth
£50 - 54 - Judy Saville

£100 - 14 - Mick Carter
£50 - 38 - Gordon Bell

Your 100 club winners for August are:

£100 - 24 - Edwin McLean
£50 - 67 - Available number - additional £50 to be drawn in September

£100 - 75 - Adrian Anderson
£50 - 56 - Ian Moules

£100 - 29 - Martin Athey
£50 - 16 - Dan Abbott

£100 - 99 - Pete Brooke
£50 - 9 - Wayne Robinson

£100 - 55 - Murphy Walwyn
£50 - 84 - Brian Lymbery

🥂 End of Season Drinks 🥂

Last night our ladies team enjoyed a lovely evening at the Cricket Club before heading over to The Fleece for their end of season drinks! 🍸

A huge thank you to all our ladies for making this season so special. It’s been amazing to see how much the team has grown, both on and off the pitch 🤩

Here’s to the next one! 🍾🥂🏏

Today we said goodbye to our overseas Asad Raza Raza

It’s been quite an incredible year for the man in his first season on English soil. He is comfortably the leagues leading wicket taker with 68 wicket. Best bowling figures of 7/16 and in all competitions has taken 78 wickets.

A top man who off the pitch too who helped with coaching our all stars and ladies team.

Thank you Asad. You’ll be missed.

Good luck in your camps back in Pakistan!

Match Reports

1st XI v Yeadon
The 1st team suffered defeat against promotion chasing Yeadon. Yeadon were bowled out for just 122, as the outstanding Asad Raza took 6-42 to take his league wicket tally to 67 and 77 in all competitions. A phenomenal season.

Ben Heritage made 38 and Mahleb Mahmood 21, but regular wickets fell throughout the innings as we were dismissed for 111.

The defeat sees us 24 points from safety with three games to play.

Player of the match - Asad Raza Raza

2nd XI v Yeadon
The 2nd team were involved in yet another nail biter at south view road as we defeated Yeadon by two wickets with just five balls remaining.

Steven Nicklin took 4-61 and Tom Hoyle 3-26 from 12 overs kept Yeadon in tact as they were bowled out for 183.

The reply never got going and we found ourselves in trouble at 91-7. But 16 year old Alexander Rushworth on loan from Woodlands and 17 year George Bedford-Walker produced the decisive partnership to lead us to victory. The 81 run partnership was expertly timed with Alex scoring 28 and George's unbeaten 48 from 48 balls secured victory in 49.1 overs.

Player of the match - George Walker Sponsored by Tutor First

Our Ladies Softball team may have been going since 2021 however this season we came back bigger, better and stronger than ever before!

What started with our signing-on night back in March, expecting just a handful of names, quickly turned into something special. Eighteen ladies turning up to training, all eager to get involved and put themselves forward to play 🤩

From complete beginners to returning players, every single person has played their part in making this our biggest and most successful season yet.

We've had plenty of highs and a few lows but most importantly we've enjoyed every single second of it. Watching everyone grow in confidence, support one another and celebrate each other's successes has made this season one to remember 🥰

After concluding the season with a win, placing us middle of the table, we’re already planning for the next 🏏

Tomorrow morning we host the u11 Bradford Junior Leagues Ernest Jones Trophy Final between Farsley and Lightcliffe.

10:00 start, 25 overs per side.

Breakfast sandwiches, teas and coffees will be served from 10am

The teams for todays fixtures v Yeadon.

The 1st team see's one change. Daniel Vause Cross comes in for Reece Clark.

The 2nd team sees Gareth Davis and Alexander Rushworth (Loan) come in for Rob Barker and Dan Abbott.

Four games to play. Two big games, come on lads!

Match Reports
The 1st team were involved in a fantastic run chase as we were able to chase down Bankfoot's imposing 1st innings total of 281-9. It was even more impressive that we were able to secure victory with still 11 overs to go.

Asad Raza once again impressed with an outstanding 5-31 from 13 overs, while Tom Burton took 2-34.

In reply, Ben Heritage made 30, Farakh Hussain struck 81 from 70 balls and Hamza Saeed contributed 32 before Tom Burton took charge. His unbeaten 70 came from only 41 balls and included five fours and seven sixes, while Nate Holdsworth added 32 in a fifth-wicket partnership of 104. East Bierley reached 282-6 to collect 19 points.

Player of the match - Farakh Hussain - sponsored by YH Physio & Performance.

The 2nd team were defeated by Pudsey St Lawrence by seven-wicket.

Batting first we were dismissed for 164 in 37.4 overs, Ross Monaghan making 40 and Rob Barker 20 as regular wickets fell.

St Lawrence then made short work of their target as they reached 168-3 in only 29.4 overs.