Defending champions Pudsey Congs ended Woodlands’ nine-match winning run, their lead at the top of JCT600 Bradford League Division One being cut from 22 to 13 points.

Left-arm spinner Glenn Roberts produced a match- winning performance by taking 6-41 to help Congs beat the leaders for the second time this season.

Andrew Bairstow (47), Barbar Butt (46) and Roberts (34no) were the leading scorers as Congs totalled 210-8 before restricting Woodlands to 153-9 in reply.

Skipper Pieter Swanepoel, who had earlier taken three wickets, was Woodlands’ top scorer with 34, but they could not break the stranglehold that Roberts and his fellow bowlers imposed as they went down by 48 runs.

Cleckheaton moved into second place with a 14-run home win over Pudsey St Lawrence, but Farsley dropped from second to third after they lost by the same margin at Bradford & Bingley – a result that ended Bingley’s four-match losing run.

Skipper Phil Slater held the innings together with 83 as Bingley recovered from 114-5 to take maximum batting points with 227-9.

Captain Ian Philliskirk (69) and Joe Greaves (62) led Farsley’s challenge, sharing a second-wicket stand of 99, but they lost wickets steadily after that and were bowled out for 213, 14 runs short, with Richard McCarthy taking 4-43 and Chris Thompson 3-46.

East Bierley, whose players wore black armbands in memory of club stalwart Les Hudson, who died last week aged 83, gained a comfortable six-wicket home win over bottom club Gomersal – a result that leaves them 44 points adrift of safety.

Overseas pace bowler Muhammad Azhar Ullah (4-21) and Durham paceman Mitch Claydon (3-21) were the chief wicket-takers as Gomersal were bowled out for 146, Greg Pickles top-scoring with 41.

Bierley then raced to victory in 21.3 overs with skipper Lee Goddard hitting 11 fours and one six in his 54.

Another club in relegation trouble are next-to-bottom Baildon, who suffered a 158-run defeat at Undercliffe to leave them 39 points behind the safety mark.

Yorkshire second-team left-hander Callum Geldart hit five sixes and 11 fours in his 110, sharing an opening stand of 162 with Matthew Bottomley (65) as Undercliffe totalled 262-8.

Slow left-arm bowler Mushtaq Ahmed (4-77) and Sri Lankan paceman Dehiwalage Perera (3-58) were Baildon’s chief wicket-takers.

The 2009 champions then crashed to 104 all out, with Yassir Abbas taking 4-26 and Yorkshire’s Moin Ashraf 3-21 with only Richard Atkins (35) showing much resistance.

Manningham Mills came out on top by two wickets in a tense, low-scoring match at Hanging Heaton.

Overseas spinner Imran Khalid produced outstanding figures of 8-36 as Hanging Heaton were bowled out for 117, of which opener Rob McFarlane made 49.

The home side made Mills battle hard for victory, but Masood Ahmed led them home with an unbeaten 58.