18th May 2008 v Grindleton away
Bolton beat Grindleton by 3 wickets. Grindleton made 166 all out with Stephen Booth taking 4 for 49. The old adage of catches win matches was prevalent with Nigel Bunyan , Phil Smalley and Stephen Booth all taking good catches ( N Bunyan 8.5/10). After a slow start Grindleton powered on when Ivan Taylor came to the crease scoring 47 in 25 balls including three 6’s. Bolton’s batting star was Joe Bunyan who carried his bat for 93 not out.

25th May 2008 v Roundhay home
Eric’s Roundhay side with its large compliment of players from the sub continent beat Bolton by 6 runs. Roundhay scored 226 for 6 with John Reynolds taking 2 for 46. He continued in fine form with the bat making 118. He and Roger Wood put on 112 for the 6th wicket partnership. As to be expected Wood also took a stumping the wicket of Barker who scored 91. In the end Bolton ran out of overs and finished at 220 for 6.

8th June 2008 v I Harris X1 at home
Bolton by Bowland won by 112 runs
Bolton 213 all-out, IH X1 101 all-out
Bolton won the Keith Brunskill memorial game for the first time. Kate Brunskill presented the trophy to winning captain Simon Reynolds whilst Marc Glover picked up the man of the match award for scoring 27 with the bat and taking 2 for 15. Bolton made 213 all out with Johno and Chris Seed both scoring 49. The Glover /Reynolds 10th wicket partnership put on 32 runs. Are the Harris oldies aging? Burnhill, a previous man of this match, looked good before being caught by Ryan Kelly off Keith Whites bowling who took 5 for 17. As well as Marc the other youngsters, Chris Billows, David Adamson, and Calum Harris all played there part in a good win.

15th June 2008 v Rathmell home
Bolton beat Rathmell by 5 wickets
Rathmell 206 for 5, Bolton 208 for 5
Nigel Bunyan’s quick fire innings in Bolton’s reply set up the home team for a magnificent victory over Rathmell. His 50 came off 26 balls in an entertaining 27 minutes. Mark Carlton supported well and together the pair put on 86 for the first wicket in 9 overs. John Reynolds, 29, Iain Harris, 39 and Johno 30 not out saw Bolton to victory in 28 overs.

22nd June 2008 v Waddington home
Waddington beat Bolton by 5 wkts
Bolton 109 for 8 in 40 overs
Waddington 113 for 5 in 24 overs
Bolton laboured to 109 with Iain harris top scoring despite leaving Portugal early doors Sunday. With Waddington at 61 for 4 Bolton could have won but Charlie Hopcroft saw the away side home.

29th June v Mollington home
Due to the uncertain weather Bolton played two 20/20 games against the visitors from Cheshire. In the first game Bolton won by 114 runs with Dec Fitzhenry scoring 45 unbeaten off 17 balls. Johno scored 38 and Bolton finished with 184 off 20 overs. Mollington’s Philips made 29 in their reply of 70.
In the second game Bolton won by 8 wickets. Jake Lloyd took his first wicket for the club and scored 10 not out.

6th July v Hurst Green away
Cancelled

12th July 2008 v Grindleton home
Bob Little sponsored game
Grindleton beat BBB by 2 wickets.
Bolton 140 for 9; Grindelton 144 for 8 wkts.
Ivan taylor ruined Bolton’s celebrations for a third year running. A tense finish created a great atmosphere for the good crowd. Ryan Kelly scored 51 for Bolton supported by a slow 33 from Tim Hall. Grindleton were 47 for 7 after some fine bowling from Simon Reynolds and Johno but Taylor’s unbeaten 69 secured victory for the away side. Thanks to Bob,Alan , Jean and Oksana for a great day.

19th July 2008v Court House Casuals home
Bolton won by 5 wkts.
CHC 82 all out
Bolton 85 for 5 wkts.

Johno was man of the match with 4 for 17 and 30 not out off 12 balls. One of his sixes was worth 12.! Bull was the best of the Casuals’ bowlers.

27th July 2008 v Rathmell away
Bolton won by 63 runs
BBB 217 for 7wkts
Rathmell 154 all out
Performances by Chris Seed and Simon Reynolds will both qualify for the John Theaker trophy. Chris hit an unblemished 110 off 131 balls scoring 15 –fours and 2 sixes. Simon took a hat trick and finished with 5 for 39 . Rathmell’s innings included 80 from Huggins; although the winning margin was healthy Shaun Lloyd’s debut 31 not out kept the pressure on the Rathmell tail end.

3 August 2008 v Roundhay away
Roundhay won by 113 runs
Roundhay 186 for 6
Bolton 73 all out
Roundhay thrashed Bolton’s young side. Nevertheless David Bunyan’s 3 for 17 and Jake Lloyd’s 11 were memorable moments.

10 August 2008 v Waddington away cancelled rain

16 August 2008 v Kent XI home
Bolton won by 5 wkts.
Kent XI 112 all out
Bolton 116 for 5 wkts
Pete Rowson flew in from Russia and took 2 Kent wickets including Johno for 6 runs. New boy Sam Richardson also took 2 for 5. Bolton’s runs came from ‘Bomber’ Harris who scored 66 off 95 balls and was the Geoff Billows man of the match.

24 August 2008 v Padiham home
Bolton won by 9 wkts
Padiham 85 for 9 wkts
Bolton 87 for 1wkt
Padiham’s social side visited Bolton for a day out which, in view of this summer’s weather record thus far , proved for them to be good from a weather viewpoint but not so good from the cricket perspective. Chris Seed took 3 of Padiham’s wickets for 4 ably supported by Calum Harris who bowled 8 overs returning figures of 2 for 8. Sam Richardson also bowled well conceding 20 off eight overs. Johno took a good catch off Calum’s bowling which will be in the reckoning for catch of the season. Johno then went on to make an unbeaten 57 off 39 balls. His knock included 5 fours and 4 sixes. Nigel Bunyan scored 27. The wicket keepers’ union was well represented with Paul Levet ( who is undergoing a dope test as we write ) fielding like a teenager and Roger Wood ,who kept wicket, returned a clean sheet for byes and took a good catch behind. Mike Stott’s shy at half a stump contributed to the downfall of Padiham resulting in the run out of Padiham’s best batsman