It was largely a disappointing weekend for Carlisle Cricket Club as they lost the County Cup final, 24 hours after their league game was called off.

Saturday’s game was abandoned without a ball being bowled because of the wet Fitz Park wicket at Keswick, where morning rain had produced a waterlogged square.

The City side remain in third place, six points ahead of Cleator and the two meet at Edenside tomorrow afternoon in what should be an entertaining encounter. Both teams have produced some excellent cricket this year, not least in the exciting County Cup semi-final a few weeks ago.

In the County final at Cleator on Sunday, Carlisle gave an excellent performance in the field against Furness. Having lost the toss, they had the favourites in trouble at 58-5.

Overseas pro Justin Greaves, playing his final game for the club this season, took a wicket in his first over and Ruairidh Barker backed up the opening bowlers, cleaning up both Nathan Waterston and Mark Daly cheaply.

Furness’s pro Seth Rance threatened to cut loose but he holed out to the off-spin of Ben Davidson.

Henry Walker returned outstanding figures of 4-26 off eight overs, taking two wickets with the last two balls of the innings, having earlier taken a stunning caught and bowled as Furness closed on 135-9.

In response, Carlisle never really got going and they lost wickets at regular intervals.

Greaves was the outstanding batsman as he single-handedly took on Rance and the Furness attack with a stylish 59, the top score in the match by some distance.

He eventually perished caught at long-on, the last batsman out off the bowling of Jordan Buchanan.

Mark Daly returned the outstanding bowling figures of 4-9 from eight overs as Rance received the Man of the Match award for his 30 with the bat and 4-22.

Carlisle secretary Mark Davidson said: “We bowled and fielded extremely well on Sunday to keep Furness to 135-9, and Henry Walker epitomises what this young side is all about.

“Both he and Ru Barker were superb and backed up by Justin’s 2-11 off eight, together with some outstanding fielding, really set up the game.

“We have to give credit to the way Furness bowled – Seth and Mark in particular were hard to get away but Greavsey played the way his abilities always suggest. His 59 was the outstanding knock of the game and made for great viewing. Thanks must go to Cleator for putting on a show.

“Even with last Saturday’s rain off, we’re still in third place and this really sets up tomorrow’s game at Edenside, where we are expecting a bumper crowd as we host the Edenfest gig – a big charity concert in aid of Parkinson’s UK from 4pm.

"Hundreds of people are expected tomorrow on what we anticipate will be our biggest Saturday of the season."

Carlisle have not been able to recruit a sub pro for Greaves for tomorrow’s clash with Cleator.

But they have made three changes from the cup final team.

Dan Gommersall, Greaves and Chris Blythe are replaced by Jordan Whinn, Paul Glascott and Taryn Reay. Jonathan Davidson will take over the wicket-keeping duties from Gomersall.

Carlisle’s game at Keswick was the only one to fall victim to the weather, and there were some astonishing performances elsewhere.

League leaders and champions Workington bowled out Wigton for 22 with Andrew Ireland finishing with figures of 9-5 – and of those five runs, three were wides.

The 22-year-old, who spent fours years with Durham, previously had six wickets as a personal best and admitted he was shell-shocked afterwards.

It was a Workington club record.

The innings lasted 70 minutes and it took just 16.2 overs with seven ducks. Ireland’s last four victims were all clean-bowled.

The only batsman he did not get out was opener and club professional Mike Slack who was removed by Matthew Lowden. Ireland did not get the opportunity to bowl at him.

Earlier, Workington had reached 246-8 in their 50 overs on what the hosts felt was a very good wicket on which they should have got to 280.

Callum Moffat top-scored with 78 and Greg Platten made 67 with Jonny Honeyman taking 3-57 for Wigton.

By contrast, both teams scored runs at Furness where the hosts made 310-6 and Cockermouth made a bold chase, reaching 200 for the loss of four wickets but were 262-9 when the overs ran out.

But the pressure is easing on Keswick, Cockermouth and Wigton as Dalton lost again, going down by 74 runs at Cleator after being bowled out for 109.

With four games left to play, Dalton are 17 points adrift of Wigton but the south Cumbrians have a chance to make inroads this weekend.

They host Keswick while Wigton have a tough task at home to Furness.

The other game sees Cockermouth hosting Workington.

In the Northern League, Penrith had a very good win at Fleetwood, a victory which enabled them to leapfrog their hosts into sixth place.

Stand-in Australian professional Nick Denton proved to be the match-winner for Penrith with both bat and ball as he top-scored with 76 in an all-out total of 233. He then followed-up by taking 7-38 as Fleetwood could only manage 200.

Tomorrow, Penrith are at home to Morecambe who are fourth from bottom of the table.