Autographs at Weetwood

Posted by Brian Sanderson,

Woke up to bright sunshine but forecast is rain later.Strolled round to Headingley ground.Decided to watch it from the Long Room.Bob Procter arrives and starts his tales.Peter then arrives who was the person who has just joined Yorkshire yesterday.

Brophy and Pyrah are still batting easily and Pyrah reaches his second first-class hundred.Brophy is out giving catching practise to cover for 89.Then Hodgson came in to bat and scored 33. He was out at lunch with Yorkshire 348 for 5.

On returning after lunch Yorkshire had declared and Loughborough started batting.I had purchased a postcard of Yorkshire in 1946 which I brought to the match.This started a discussion on cricket in the 1940,s when Bob and Peter started watching cricket.

Decided to see what was happening at Weetwood were Leeds and Bradford were playing Warwickshire.Tony,Brian,David and Peter were sitting watching the match.Warwickshire had been bowled out for 180 and Leeds and Bradford were batting.Black clounds were all about.To my surprise I met Brian Cobb for the first time this cricket season.Brian has watched cricket all over England and watched Yorkshire Bank in the Bradford League.He has now got a dog called Harry which makes him have to keep walking round the field.

Ron Deaton then arrived after coming back from Summerscales.A special brick had been placed in the birth place of Herbert Sutcliffe.Ron is a big collector of Yorkshire memorabilia and introduced me to Yorkshire Cricket Archives.He was looking for signatures of Ashley Giles and Darren Maddy who were playing in the match.Martin Saggers an ex England player was umpiring in the match. Another signature.

There was another match on the second pitch Northumberland v Leeds University.
Northumberland scored 170 and Leeds were batting. The rain started and Warwickshire players came off however the second match carried on until Leeds won the match.

Ron daecided to go to Headingley to obtain the signature of the three debutants for Yorkshire.He also obtain the signature of Graham Dilley on the 1981 England scorecard when England beat Australia.It stopped raining.Loughborough had reached 53 for 1.Brian Senior arrived to see if the match was playing.Everybody had gone home.