Interesting Cricket at Weetwood

Posted by Brian Sanderson,

Woke to another sunny morning but rain due again.Sat near the new pavilion ,hoping to get a bit warmer.Brian Senior and David Thorpe were already in position.Tavare and Murphy were batting.Ballance drop a easy catch on the boundary.Not one of his best part of his cricket.Tavare was given out L.B.W to Wainwright without playing a shot.
Out came Loughborough captain Cope to bat in orange batting gloves.It started to rain and the cricket was poor so I went home for lunch.

After lunch I went up to Weetwood to see the Leeds and Bradford match.Brian and David were already there again.It had stopped raining and Leeds opening bat Ben Slater was batting.He was born in Chesterfield and has played for Derbyshire seconds.

On the second wicket Leeds University Seconds were playing Durham Seconds.When we walked over to the match 7 wickets had fallen with Leeds bowling.Two wickets falling in two balls and the umpire called out that Gregory Compton had taken all the wickets.He had only one over to take all ten wickets as he was only allowed nine overs as the match and been reduced to 43 overs.However he could not do the feat and finished with 9 wickets for 18 runs.Durham were at this time 50 for 9.but both batsmen looked useful.They managed to reach 142 in the last over.

On the other pitch Ben Slater reached 100 and they declared at 250 for 5.Leaving Warwickshire to score 170 in two hours.Maddy,the ex England player, opened the innings.However he was soon out caught bowled by Andrew Williamson.He was born in Chester and another Derbyshire Seconds player.Williamson got all 6 wickets that fell during the run chase.Warwick decided not to try and win the match and finished at 111 for 6.

Yorkshire had bowled Loughborough for 253 in 96.4 overs.Sanderson took 5 wickets.