St Annes 185-9 Blackpool 119-4, The final league game of the season at Vernon Road on Saturday saw the St Annes and Blackpool game fizzle out into a boring draw.

Blackpool, realising they would secure a Lancashire Cup place with that result, made no attempt to go for the runs to win the game.

The St Annes innings owed much to David Callaghan and Stephen Twist. The pair came together at 10-2 and added 90 before Callaghan was adjudged LBW for a fine 41, which gave him 912 runs for the season.

Twist went on to make 63 before he was leg before wicket to Croft and then Adam Cotton struck a quick 23 to take his side to their 185-9. Blackpool captain Rudra Singh was the pick of the Blackpool bowlers with 5-58. The Blackpool innings never really got going and once three wickets had gone down for 50 runs, there was never any intent on the part of the Blackpool batsmen to move the scoreboard along.

Mark Lomas made only 21 of the 53 runs he required to break Martin Pickles amateur record at the club and thereafter Singh and Croft, who made a senior best of 36 not out, simply played out time as the game drifted aimlessly to its conclusion.

At the close Blackpool had managed a paltry 119-4 but more significantly had either driven most of the spectators from the ground or induced them to sleep. Callaghan took 3-30 to take him to 60 wickets for the season.

With other results going their way, the seven points earned by St Annes also helped them to qualify for next season's Lancashire Cup competition.