The Bradford Cricket League last night decided they would not be throwing a club out at the end of the season.

Lightcliffe were at the forefront of a movement to reduce the number of clubs in Division Two from 15 to 14 for 2005, thereby getting rid of a club's two free dates and cutting the number of Sunday league matches in that section from seven to five.

But last night's league meeting at Pudsey Congs voted to retain all 15 clubs by 23-10.

The main question now is how many matches will be played in Division Two next season.

Some clubs still prefer the status quo of a 28-game season, which could still involve seven sets of Sunday fixtures. But the other option is to go for a 22-game season spread over 24 Saturdays.

League secretary Bob Shackleton, pictured, today sent out postal ballot forms to clubs' cricket secretaries asking them to vote on the longer or shorter option.

Clubs then have seven days to return the forms, otherwise their votes will not count.

Originally the club with the lowest number of votes among the two seeking re-election to Division Two was going to be thrown out.

But, thanks to the efforts of Great Horton's Tony Hamer - his club are currently bottom of Division Two - clubs forced the management committee to think again about their proposal.

In all, 11 different schemes which involved keeping all 15 clubs in Division Two were recently put to the management committee, but the vast majority were rejected as being unworkable.