Talking to old cricketers

Posted by Brian Sanderson,

Just arrived back from the Nottigham Seconds v Lancashire Seconds at Cleethorpes.
The weather was cloudy as I picked up Bob Procter. It took about ninety minutes to arrive at the ground. It is situated at the South of Cleethorpes and five minute walk from the front.

The sun came out when we saw Bob Dearden from Lancashire who was stopping with an old friend.Lancashire had batted first a got 262 and Nottingham were eight wickets down for 111.Batting had been hard due to the pitch and humid weather.Nottingham was soon out for 144.We starting talking to Basharat Hassan who played for Nottingham in the 1970,s.He was a great friend of Gary Sobers and told us some tales of him.

Lancashire were batting and both openers were soon out however Cross looked in good form together with Perry.After lunch Cross reached his century and White, the Nottingham left arm spinner, was getting spin.We watch the afternoon session on the banking looking down on the play with Mike Hendricks. He is the bowling coach for Nottingham and used to play for Derbyshire.He had numerous stories to keep us amused.Lancashire was bowled out one over before tea with a lead over 300.

Three wickets had fallen before we left at 6.00 but Patel was batting well. Lancashire should win the match.