The success of Wrenthorpe, Solly Sports Central Yorkshire League Premier Division champions and current leaders, is having far reaching consequences.

In their last league outing they were four-wicket winners at Altofts with 27 overs to spare as they managed to beat the rain but they are chasing honours on five fronts and fixture tangles are already looming large.

There is no problem with Saturday's league fixture at home to Hunslet Nelson but on Sunday they have to fit in a Jack Hampshire Memorial Cup tie instead of their Solly Sports Heavy Woollen Cup clash with Hanging Heaton, which will now be played next week.

In addition to that there is a Black Sheep Yorkshire Champions Trophy game against Bradford Leaguers Woodlands to fit in but that won’t be possible until August.

By the time that is played, the Council play-offs will doubtless be looming large.

The district’s Premier Division sides are having a tough time, with Birstall and Batley in the bottom three while Northowram Fields and Mirfield Parish occupy, at best, a respectable mid-table position.

Birstall’s eight-wicket defeat at home to Townville scarcely helped their cause, and they will be hoping for better at Altofts on Saturday, and Mirfield Parish were struggling on 83-5, chasing 259-3 declared at home to Methley, when the rain came to their rescue.

Spare a thought for promotion-chasing Ossett's all- rounder Shoaib Latif, who became the first player in 16 years to take all ten wickets, in the First Division game against Methley A, but still finished on the losing side.

Moorlands stay top of this division, after beating East Ardsley, but Liversedge, whose game at home to Scholes was abandoned, and Buttershaw St Paul's continue to slip.