Two quick matches.

Posted by Brian Sanderson.

On Bank Holiday Monday I picked Ron up and set off for Shaw Lane Barnsley to see a Yorkshire ECB County Premier League match.The match was between Barnsley and Appleby Frodingham who had score over 300 on Saturday.
Barnsley were captained by Jason Booth who is the groundsman for Leeds Rugby.The team also consisted of ex-Yorksman County player Simon Widdop and two Yorkshire second players Gary Ballance and Azeem Rafiq.
There was another cold northerly wind blowing.One of the umpires was Dave Sharp who is in charge of the umpire for the League.
Barnsley won the toss and decided to bowl and took two quick wickets by Henri Londt.Soon Rafiq came on to ball and was to good for the batting side. He finished with 5 wickets for 14 of 8.5 overs.Appleby Frodingham were bowled out for 59 so we decided to go an watch Castleford.
When we got there Sheffield United had been bowled out for 81. Spinner William Hodson had taken 8 wickets for 38 in 18 overs.
Calling in to the tea pavilion the first person we saw was Brian Senior eating his tea again.
The scoreboard at Castleford was not working as the scorers were using computers
and there was no electrical lends to the board. So a manual scoreboard had been set up.
Castleford soon won the match with only two wickets down. As there were no more matches in the area we went home.Arrived home at 4.30 the earliest finish of the season.

To-morrow Derby.