Richard Robinson led Keighley to victory over his old club Baildon in a thrilling Heavy Woollen Cup final at Liversedge.

The inspirational left-handed batsman, who enjoyed a successful 14 seasons at Baildon before returning to his home town club last winter, scored a match-winning 61 not out as the Second Division side beat their First Division opponents by six wickets with one over to spare.

Last year Robinson helped Baildon to win the Heavy Woollen Cup for the second time in three years.

Twelve months later he completed a memorable day by winning the man of the match award for his fine innings and ten economical overs in which he took one for 23.

Robinson came to the wicket with the match evenly poised as Keighley chased Baildon's 212 for six.

They had made a steady if somewhat slow start, and at 73 for three still needed 141 to win in a little under 25 overs when Robinson joined overseas player Joel Crouch.

The stage was perfectly set for Robinson and he and the Australian put on 70 in 12 overs for the fourth wicket before Crouch was out in the 38th over, having made an entertaining 53 which contained one six and eight fours.

At that stage Keighley still needed 71 to win in 12 overs, but Robinson and new partner Steven Reape guided them home in a perfectly-paced fifth wicket stand.

Unusually, the free-scoring Robinson hit only five boundaries, but their running between the wickets was so good that they had no difficulty in maintaining the required run rate and they were helped by some slack Baildon fielding as the First Division side cracked under the pressure.

Earlier Spragg scored a superb 96, including one six and 11 fours before he was caught on the point boundary by Mark Beckett at 177 and Baildon's 212 proved inadequate.

BAILDON

S Davies lbw D Towler 1

J Goldthorp lbw Beckett 28

P Spragg c Beckett b R Towler 96

A Patel st Wood b R Robinson 13

M Duce c Beckett b R Towler 18

P Slater not out 25

T Atkinson c Gordon b D Towler 12

A Abbas not out 2

Extras 15 Total (6wkts) 212

Fall: 1-1, 2-68, 3-107, 4-147, 5-177, 6-203

Bowling: S Reape 10-2-34-0, D Towler 10-0-62-2, M Beckett 10-4-27-1, R Towler 10-1-52-2, R Robinson 10-2-23-1.

KEIGHLEY

P Wilkinson lbw Slater 10

L Gordon b Atkinson 27

J Crouch b Slater 53

M Beckett c Goldthorp b Spragg 8

R Robinson not out 61

S Reape not out 34

Extras 23 Total (4wkts) 216

Fall: 1-18, 2-47, 3-72, 4-142

Bowling: A Abbas 10-2-38-0, C Smith 10-3-27-0, P Slater 10-3-39-2, J Abbott 10-1-36-0, T Atkinson 6-0-30-1, P Spragg 3-0-27-1.

Keighley saw their slim hopes of promotion to Division One disappear on Saturday despite taking four points from a winning draw against Manningham Mills.

Robinson top scored with 81 and Ross Towler and Crouch added 66 each in a 227-8 total, but despite three wickets for Ross Towler, the visitors stubbornly held out for the draw.

Keighley 227-8

Manningham Mills 144-8

Keighley: L Gordon lbw Muktar 4, P Wilkinson b Muktar 10, R Towler b Ahmed 66, J Crouch lbw Mogul 66, R Robinson c Hanif b Hassan 81, S Reape not out 45, D Robinson c&b Hassanvisitors stubbornly held out at 144-8. 3, S Ratcliffe b Hassan 0, D Towler b Ahmed 1, M Bottomley not out 1, Extras 13, Total (8wkts) 227.

Bowling: G Ahmed 19-3-71-2, A Muktar 8-2-22-2, M Hussain 7-1-35-0, O Khatab 8-0-51-0, A Mogul 6-1-31-1, M Hassan 2-0-8-3.

Manningham Mills: A Parkinson c R Robinson b Reape 9, K Hayat c Reape b Crouch 24, N Ghalib lbw R Towler 1, G Ahmed lbw R Towler 3, A Muktar not out 45, N Hanif c Crouch b R Robinson 31, O Khatab lbw R Robinson 2, M Hassan b D Towler 5, A Hussain c R Robinson b R Towler 6, A Mogul not out 0, Extras 18, Total (8wkts) 144.

Bowling: S Reape 10-3-20-1, D Towler 11-2-32-1, R Towler 12-2-42-3, J Crouch 6-1-11-1, S Ratcliffe 4-1-13-0, R Robinson 6-4-2-2, P Wilkinson 1-0-11-0.