Weather gods in dark mood for season end

All but eight of 128 scheduled ECB Premier League matches were either cancelled or abandoned last weekend as the weather gods proved hapless arbiters of the 2008 season's endeavours.

The Home Counties and Liverpool proved the least wet areas in the country with four games producing a win and three draws while Chesterfield took the Derbyshire title after the rains held off in Ticknall but proved torrential elsewhere in the county.

All the pitches used in the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier League championship were waterlogged leaving York and Castleford - on the same number of points to battle it out on the final weekend.

On a day when Rhewl and Anglesey Aluminium both ring in early to cancel their home game, you know its been wet, reported an official from the North Wales Premier League.

Friday and Saturday both brought rains of near biblical proportions with grounds being flooded.

"It is rare indeed to find all games cancelled as there is invariably some pocket where a game is able to be shoe horned in somehow. Saturday 6th September will go down as one of those occasions where 100% of games failed to start."

The title race in the North Staffs & South Cheshire Cricket League is set to go into the final day after all Premier League were washed out.

Moddershall require only five points from their home match with Little Stoke to hold off Leek who must chase a maximum at home to Barlaston and hope for something like divine intervention across at Barnfields.