After two losses during a difficult selection period in May the 3rd XI are now unbeaten in 7 in the league with only a downpour which ended the match against Follifoot having denied them a win though this run of games.

This run of good form has seen the gap to conference leaders Adel, who took a maximum 30 points from their first 5 games, slowly coming down to leave the conference table interestingly poised, as below.

1 Adel 50
2 North Leeds 46
3 Horsforth 42
4 Rawdon 32
5 Follifoot 23
6 Knaresborough 22
7 Bilton 18
8 Green Lane 13

Under the new format this year only the conference winner will go through into a one match play-off with the winner of the West conference to decide the 3rd XI championship. With 3 clubs in the hunt, only the top spot important and North Leeds' 3 remaining games being against Horsforth, Adel and Rawdon it's set up for an exciting finish to the 3rd XI season.

RACE FOR THE AVERAGES

Batting (200 runs and 7 innings required)

Hamza Ahmed 219 runs @ 43.8 (8 innings played)
Numan Khan 149 runs @ 49.7 (4 innings played)
Adam Copley 128 runs @ 21.33 (6 innings played)
Harry Kellaway 118 runs @ 16.9 (7 innings played)
Dan Holmes 89 runs @ 89 (5 innings played)
Johnny Taylor 74 runs @14.8 (5 innings played)

Special mention to Angus Blair who has 116 runs without being out in 2 innings and Gareth Maver with 130 runs at 43.3 in 4 innings but who wont be able to bat enough times before the end of the season to meet the qualification criteria.

Bowling

(20 wickets required)

Charlie Whitehill Sharkey 16 wickets @ 10.7
Guy Hales 13 wickets @ 14.9
Ricky Chaggar 12 wickets @ 11.7
Adam Copley 9 wickets @ 16.7
Sid Tyagi 8 wickets @ 5.1
Haris Ahmed 7 wickets @ 25.6