A Busy Saturday

Posted by Brian Sanderson

The sun was still shining and was hot.Walked round to Headingley to meet Andrew Wickham who had come up from London for the weekend.Yorkshire were playing India A which was due to start at noon. This was to enable Yorkshire to get back from the night match at Worcester. However no Yorkshire players played in that match so they could have started at 11.00.

Yorkshire had three players making their first class debut. These were Lees, Lowe and Roebuck. India batted first against Best and Hannon-Dalby.Best bowled his fist three balls down the leg side.Not good.We were joined by Bob Procter, Andy and Tony Hutton.
Andrew and myself decided to go watch Windhill against Manningham Mills.

Manningham Mills were batting and were soon down to 36 for 6.Wicket- Keeper taking four catches.Both sides were Asian. Looking at the picture in the bar Windhill last season were all white. How times changes quickly.

Decided to move on to Spen Victoria who were playing Idle.On the way we called in at East Bearley and Gomersal. Andrew had not been on both grounds. He was impressed by East Bearley.

On arriving at Spen , Idle were batting and were 100 for 5 with forty overs gone.However Chowdrey scored 46 of 46 balls to bring the total up to 155.

Idle opening the bowling with a leg- spinner called Matharu.He bowled very well and collected two wickets. Tosh Baker and West put a partnership together before West was stumped for 21. Baker was next to go for 46 playing a tired shot.

The match could have gone either way but Will Smith scored a good fifty and the match was won by some good strokes from Rawat.

The time was 7.30 so seven and half hours of good cricket.