LADY LUCK is smiling down on Leigh.

And Keith Latham's battlers are now on a Wembley two-step - just a couple of matches away from a May 3 battle in the big time.

With the prize of a final at Wembley as the curtain-raiser to the Challenge Cup Final, Leigh have avoided the big dangers of Widnes and Hull Kingston Rovers in the Silk Cut Plate.

They have been drawn at home to Whitehaven, the Cumbrian First Division club visiting Hilton Park on Sunday.

Leigh chairman Mick Higgins is delighted with the draw. "All you can ask for at this stage of a cup competition is a home tie," he said.

"We proved against Swinton we can live with First Division sides. Whitehaven will be the ones doing all the worrying."

Full quarter-final draw: Hunslet v Workington, Lancashire Lynx v Hull KR, Bramley v Widnes, Leigh v Whitehaven.

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