It's perhaps the biggest weekend for Carlisle Cricket Club for many years as they face up to an eagerly-anticipated double-header.

Carlisle travel to Keswick tomorrow for a North Lancs & Cumbria Premier Division game and, on Sunday, are at Cleator to take on Furness in the final of the County Cup.

Victory at Fitz Park would go a fair way to helping them seal third place in the table which would be a fine achievement after last season’s promotion.

But it’s the chance of lifting senior silverware that has really fired up the club and Sunday’s clash with title-chasing Furness in the County Cup Final has the makings of being a cracker.

In actual fact, the two teams had a frustrating Saturday afternoon at Edenside with play being abandoned at 5.40pm after the umpires deemed the ground unfit for play following heavy rain earlier in the afternoon.

Winning the toss and batting, Furness made 112-2 off 26.1 overs. But then the rain came.

Carlisle secretary Mark Davidson said: “Both sides were disappointed not to get Saturday’s game completed.

“The skippers really wanted some cricket and it would have been interesting to see how our young side would have coped with the pace of New Zealand’s Seth Rance.

“We move on to a big weekend, firstly tomorrow at Keswick in the league before Sunday’s County Cup Final at Cleator, where again we meet Furness.

“We’re delighted to have maintained consistency through the quality of performances this year and to make the cup final is a tremendous reward for our continued improvement as a club both on and off the field.”

Carlisle’s second team will be competing in the Eden Valley League’s Cup Finals Day at Keswick, also on Sunday and are through to the John Scott Cup Final, next month.

For the Cup final, Carlisle expect to be at full-strength. Dan Gommersall returns to keep wicket and bat at the top of the order, opening with Ben Davidson.

Carlisle have three members of this season’s Cumbria Under-17 squad included in the side – Henry Walker, Jonathan Davidson and Ruairidh Barker.

Gomersall and Eddie Mitchell come into the side for Saturday's trip to Keswick with Alex Raybould and Phil Frazer not included.

Taryn Reay, another of the Under-17s, is in the bowling attack. Raybould and Frazer return for Sunday’s cup final.

While Funess were being frustrated by the rain, title rivals Workington were able to take full advantage and record a vital win at Cleator to go eight points clear again with five games to play.

This looked for a long time to be a game Workington were going to lose after winning the toss and batting.

They lost wickets at regular intervals with Kristian Moffat (33), Callum Moffat (27) and Adam Chambers (23) being the main contributors. David Rooney took 5-22.

The Cleator reply started well with David Watson and pro Kavindu Kulasekara putting on 35.

Watson was out for 23 but the score progressed to 87-3 when Adam Chambers removed Kulasekara for 29. They then lost five wickets for seven runs and slumped to 95-8 only James Rogers with 24 offering much resistance.

They finished 109 all out after 42.1 overs with Chambers taking 5-14.

Down at the bottom, there were important wins for Wigton and Cockermouth.

Wigton were 198 all out in the final over against Keswick with Nico Watt top-scoring with 52. They were also helped by 34 extras of which 21 were wides.

Geeth Kumara, the Keswick professional, took 4-33.

Rain affected the game so Keswick had a revised target of 143 from 28 overs. They fell short on 134-9.

Jonny Honeyman was the bowling hero for Wigton taking 6-59.

Cockermouth beat bottom side Dalton by 30 runs after opener and skipper Gareth Whit had made 100 out of their total of 206-7.

Chris Hodgson took 5-33 when Dalton were bowled out for 176 in the 47thover.

The odds are stacking up against Dalton now, bottom of the pile with 58 points. Above them are Cockermouth (78), Wigton (73) and Keswick (73).

All four have tough games tomorrow – Dalton go to Cleator; Wigton are at Workington and Cockermouth travel to Furness. Keswick host Carlisle.

In the Northern League, Penrith got back to winning ways at the expense of bottom side Lancaster. But in a low-scoring game it was too close for comfort as Penrith squeezed home by ten runs.

They were bowled-out for 124 in the 35th over and owed much to Greg Hall for his 49.

Tomorrow Penrith visit Fleetwood.