By Joe Brigly
TRIBUTES have been pouring in after the death of a respected Lancashire League umpire. Phil Entwistle – who was a forceful opening batsman for Craven League side Pendle Forest in his playing days, before going on to umpire in the Ribblesdale League and Lancashire League – died aged 64 at a Pendleside Hospice after a 16-month battle with lung cancer.
He was also the uncle of current Colne T20 captain Andy Hakin, and Lancs League chairman Mike Bibby remembers Entwistle as a proficient man in the middle.
“He was involved about five or six years with us as an ump...