Cleator will be bidding to reach their second Cup final when they travel to Carlisle on Sunday.

Already through to the CN Cup final (formerly the Higson Cup) the West Cumbrians have the County Cup in their sights.

If they win at Edenside they will play Furness in the final on Sunday, August 13 at a venue still to be decided.

They already know that Furness will be their opponents in the CN Cup final.

Unfortunately, the National Village Cup is no longer a target after they were knocked-out on Sunday.

They lost out to a very good Hawk Green side after winning the toss and electing to bat. Although 148 was defendable, Hawk Green (from Marple, near Stockport) are useful and they knocked-off the required runs with four wickets and 13 over to spare.

The game with Carlisle looks nicely poised as they are currently third and fourth in the table with the city side only four points better-off.

Carlisle’s Barbadian professional, Justin Greaves produced a superb spell of bowling against Cockermouth at Edenside to secure the points.

He took 6 for 21 from only 12 overs to earn the unofficial man of the match award as Carlisle came out on top with overs to spare.

Unfortunately, another of his victims was Cockermouth opener and skipper Gareth White who was forced to retired with a badly broken thumb when a Greaves full toss struck him on the glove.

Cleator will be looking to the likes of in-form Darren Clark to master the Carlisle professional. Clark continued his good run with 92 in the seven-wicket win against Wigton.

In the league tomorro, Cleator travel to Cockermouth, who will have to continue their fight against relegation without the influential White.

Carlisle travel to Wigton, Furness make the short trip to Dalton and Workington visit Keswick.

Workington still lead Furness by 14 points and last week won easily by eight wickets against struggling Dalton.

The visitors were bowled out for 86 in the 42nd over with three wickets each for Matthew Lowden and pro Gajasinghe.

Workington needed just 16.5 overs to knock-off the required runs.

Anyone at a loose end on Sunday who enjoys Big Bash-style cricket should head for Penrith. Tynefield Park is staging a bumper programme of quick-fire cricket with three tasty matches in prospect.

The club has been honoured with staging the Northern Premier League Readers Cup T20 finals Day.

Netherfield, Blackpool, Leyland and hosts Penrith are all involved in what promises to be an entertaining feast of runs.

Penrith will actually start the day at 10am with the first semi-final against Leyland and that’s followed by Blackpool v Netherfield at 2.30. The final is being staged at 5pm.

The hosts’ young and inexperienced team have done very well to overcome a poor start in the competition when they were easily beaten by Barrow in the first round. Since then their season has turned round, and skipper Jonathan Osborne thinks they could go all the way.