Sunday's trip to Royton, in common with all but one other League fixture, was rain affected and ended up as a no result.
Royton won the toss and invited Heywood to bat first. Cross and Mike Arnold dodged the showers to make steady progress. Arnold continued his form from the previous week as the opening partnership reached 57, before Bobby Cross was caught off the bowling of Shaun Marais.
Anwar joined the attack, strangling scoring opportunities by darting in his left arm spin from over the wicket. Sadly, after the previous day's excitement, Campbell got a leading edge and was out for eight. Blight settled in with Arnold, but the return of Proctor induced Arnold to give a return catch four short of his half-century, with the score on 104.
There was concern that Anwar, after his hundred the previous day, might be able to lead a successful attack on anything under 150, even if there were only 20 overs available. Jonny Shaw joined Blight and in a sensible batting display, defending against Anwar and attacking the other end, the pair put on an unbeaten partnership of 70. Blight was unbeaten on 39, and Shaw on 33.
With that, the rain set in, the cloud descended and, despite the valiant attempts of groundstaff, players and umpires, play was abandoned without Royton beginning their reply.