Kirkstall Educational cricket ground, Leeds
Posted by Tony Hutton
Thursday 16th April - I have long had a belief that if you get frustrated or bored watching cricket, it is quite possible in West Yorkshire particularly, just to walk round the corner and find something more exciting going on.
So when watching at Headingley over the years on Saturday afternoons it has often been my practice to go for a ten minute walk round the corner to Queenswood Drive, the home of Kirkstall Educational cricket club. Often a few overs of therapy, with more action than you have seen in the last few hours, can restore your faith in the game.
So on Thursday when an internal Yorkshire practice match was grinding out it's course and the players left the field for the tea interval, two carloads of cricket watchers arrived at Kirkstall to watch Leeds Metropolitain University taking on no less than the national side of the Isle of Man !
The Isle of Man were on a three match pre-season tour organized by their coach Gareth Dawson, formerly of Doncaster Town and brother of Richard Dawson formerly with Yorkshire.
This was in preparation for a European Tournament they will take part in later in the season.
Sadly for the visitors everything seemed to go wrong for them. The students cracking 357-7 in 50 overs, with sixes galore into the adjacent rugby field. In reply the Islanders were dismissed for a paltry 88.
Undetered the Manxmen, smartly attired in sweaters sporting the island badge and all in red caps, lost by a smaller margin to Doncaster the next day and finished with a flourish with a win over Derbyshire side Eckington. Good luck to them in Europe - they might need it.
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