Cricket: Undercliffe are making a determined effort to regain the Bradford League title next season.

The Intake Road side, who were champions in 1997, have strengthened their side with three signings and are still in the market for more new recruits.

Newcomers include former Yorkshire and Somerset right hand batsman and off spinner Jeremy Batty.

Batty has played two seasons with Middleton in the Central Lancashire League since Somer-set released him.

Other new signings are Yorkshire batsman Bradley Par-ker from Bradford & Bingley and last season's Saltaire captain Toby Drummond.

Meanwhile newly-promoted Bankfoot have strengthened their batting line-up for their return to the First Division by signing Bradford League record breaker Azam Khan.

The Pakistani batsman recorded the league's highest individual score of 214 not out for Hartshead Moor against Ben Rhydding in September.

Azam, one of only three batsmen to top the 1,000 run mark in the league last season scored 1,233 runs to finish second behind the league's top scorer Drighlington batsman Iqbal Khan.

He has played one Test match for Pakistan and eight one day internationals, his latest being this winter against Australia.

His signing is a prize capture for Bankfoot who beat their rivals Idle on the last day of the season to win the final promotion place.

But they are keeping their fingers crossed that Azam is not called into Pakistan's squad for the World Cup tournament in England this summer.

International selection would rule him out of Bradford League action.

Senior Bankfoot player Richard Peel said: "Going into the First Division we need to bring some extra quality into the side. Azam has international experience and he is a big signing for us."

Bankfoot have also signed two players from Bowling Old Lane who were relegated to the Second Division, bowlers Nigel Hanson and Gurdav Singh, but they have lost batsman Martin Kelly to Hartshead Moor.

Another Bradford League re-cord breaker is on the move.

Indian batsman Wasim Jaffer, who shared a league record first wicket stand of 277 with skipper Andrew Bethel for Spen Victoria, will play with Scholes in the Huddersfield League next season.

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