GOLBORNE'S Andy Mullaney was within three balls of leading the Vimto Association to a shock win at the weekend.
They all but toppled one of the Lancashire Inter-League competition favourites, the Northern League eventually winning by seven wickets.
The Association looked as if they had thrown away the chance of a good score with a slow start that saw them struggle to 45-2 in 20 overs.
But skipper Mullaney quickly changed that with a gutsy 58 with good support from John Hopkins 42, Richard Sutcliffe 30 and Brett Collins 27.
That gave the Association a healthy scoreline of 195-8.
And when the Northern League became similarly becalmed at 44-3 in the early part of their innings, the Association looked in control.
Andy Fox bowled tightly with only seven runs coming from his first six overs, Steve Walsh (1-29) and Richard Sutcliffe (1-25) chipped in with mean bowling spells to keep them subdued before a 155 partnership took NL to victory.
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