Cumbria have qualified for the knockout stages of the NCCA Trophy after their game with Northumberland was washed out.
Play never started at Keswick yesterday and after lunch the final group game was abandoned without a ball being bowled.
It left Cumbria a point ahead of Northumberland as the visitors needed to play and win at Fitz Park to pip Cumbria to a qualification place.
Cumbria had won at Lincolnshire; tied in Oxfordshire and it looks as though it will be Oxfordshire who will go through as group winners.
If that’s the case then Cumbria will head to Cambridgeshire in the knockout round next month.
Senior player Gary Pratt, who had scored a century in both previous games, had been unavailable for yesterday’s games and the Lancashire 2nds player JJ Fielding, son of former Cumberland player Jonathan Fielding, had been brought in.
Cumbria had also included in-form Furness batsman Nathan Waterston (who scored his second century of the season on Saturday) in place of Keswick pace bowler James McGown.
