THE vagaries of the West Yorkshire weather were there for all to see in the Spenser Wilson Halifax League as matches were completed as far afield as Great Horton Park Chapel and Upper Hopton and yet games were abandoned from Birchencliffe to Thornton, four without a ball being bowled.

Booth maintained their 12-point lead at the top of the Premier Division as they and the three teams behind them at the start of play were involved in abandoned matches.

The leaders were 43-1, chasing 204 to win at home to Queensbury, when the rains came.

Queensbury were 51-5 before being revived by Amjad Ali (39), Mohammed Hanif (38), Gurdev Singh (36) and No 10 John Rankin (28no).

Mytholmroyd made 284 (Tom Earle 114, Jack Earle 64) at home to Jer Lane, with Saeed Mirza taking 3-48 and Nasir Chowdrey 3-53, and the visitors were 3-0 when the heavens opened.

Thornton v Oxenhope was one of the games where play didn't start.

In the First Division, Blackley were the major beneficiaries, despite only scoring 132 (Jonathan Stenson 52) at Great Horton Park Chapel, with Stuart Fenton taking 6-69.

Park Chapel could only make 103 in reply, despite 43 from opener Richard Hassell.

There was no play between Cullingworth and Stones and Bridgeholme and Shelf.

The shock result of the day came in the Second Division, where bottom club Old Town made one of the longest trips in the league – to Upper Hopton – but came away with their first win of the season.

The combination of Ali Asghar (4-37), Sajid Khan (3-41) and Adnan Afzal (3-2-3-3) helped to restrict the home team to just 94 runs, Old Town winning by three wickets.

Illingworth St Mary’s extended their lead to 19 points with a win at Low Moor HT, although if the home team’s second-change bowler Mark Stokes had been called upon earlier, the result may have different.

Low Moor made only 107 as Jamie Moorhouse was again in fine form, taking 6-47.

St Mary’s looked to be cruising to victory at 61-0 until Stokes was introduced.

Panic then set in as six wickets fell for 31 runs, and had it not been for opener Callum Cook’s 58 not out, the result could have been different, with the honours also going to Stokes for figures of 6-2-19-5.

There was no play between Clayton and Luddendenfoot but Mount won by four wickets at home to Greetland, chiefly thanks to Altaf Hussain (4-15) and Anees Rawat (50).