Team captains and players should take care as we approach the end of season and plan ahead as the following rules apply when down to a team's final three matches: 10-man League 11g) For the final three 10-man league matches of the season, the captains of ‘B’...
The penultimate round of the Inter-District league takes place on Friday 21 August with a 1 pm start time. Huddersfield are in fourth place in the league on 167 points behind West Riding, Bradford and Leeds on 272, 223 and 211 points respectively. However, West...
The final of the 2026 Subsidiary Team Knockout takes place on Thursday 20 August, 1.30 pm at Broad Oak Bowling Club. The defending champions Kirkheaton Con take on Marsh United. Although the Kirkheaton team are the current champions and riding high in Division 4 they have...
The beauty of a Finals Day is that it strips away all the nonsense. League averages? Forget them. Form books? Worth about as much as last week’s weather forecast. Reputation? Completely irrelevant. One day, three rounds. Win all three and someone hands you a trophy. Lose one...
Just when you think that things can't get much worse up pops probably the most difficult fixture of the season against a rampant Leeds team who have just won the Hickson Trophy for a third year running and are the holders of the famous Grouse...
Finals have a habit of ignoring the form book. League positions, winning runs and reputations can all count for very little once the first bowls are sent out. The current Division One leaders arrived in outstanding form, while Lindley Lib came into the final having...
Lunn Times His Run to Perfection to Claim Over-80s Crown There are finals days that drift quietly by, and there are those that keep everyone engrossed from the opening bowl to the last. The Huddersfield Veterans Over-80s Finals at Waterloo certainly belonged in the latter category. Played...
After a mid-season and Hickson Trophy break from the Inter-District league it resumes on Friday 24 July with a game against Wakefield. The Home team have opted once again to play at Hemplow and the team is Andy Wike, Mick Chapman, Peter Fuller, Robert Dickinson, Ray Whitwam,...
The semi-finals and final of the Yorkshire Veterans' Crown Green Bowling Competition, proverbially known as the Hickson Trophy, took place on Friday 10 July at Thornhill Cricket & Bowling Club. The preliminary rounds and quarter-finals took place the previous Friday and threw up qualifiers Sheffield, West...
Tomorrow, 16 July, is one of the most pleasant days in the associations calendar and this year the weather gods are promising fine weather for both the Over 80's individual trophy and the 6-man leagues Julie Fuller 3-pairs team trophy. All played at Waterloo Bowling...