Do not believe everything you read in the paper

Posted by Brian Sanderson.

On a sunny day myself and Brian Senior sent off to Darlington.Durham Seconds were playing a three day match against Glamorgan Seconds.The ground is near the centre of town and at one end there used to be the football ground. They moved a few years ago to a new stadium in the outskirts of town.The white stand is the only thing standing on the football ground and is over grown.There is a excellent cricket pavilion with a balcony.It is one of my favorite grounds.
Yesterday the two sides were involved in a tie.Durham scored 258 for 8 and Glamorgan needed seven to win of two balls and Ashling hit a six to tie the match.When we arrived Tony Hutton had just arrived. Among the crowd was Malcolm from Derby who usually comes up for this fixture and Andy from York.

To-day Glamorgan batted first with Bragg and James.Durham pace attack did not look threatening so Borthwick came on.He is a young leg-spinner and the time was 12.15.
He bowled continuously for eighteen overs.He took four wickets and Bragg scored 104 runs.

At lunchtime we had lunch in the pavilion for £2.50 as much as you can eat including strawberries and cream.Excellent value.

We had read in the paper that there was a cup final at Northallerton so we decided to go there. Glamorgan had reached 300 for 6 with Holden batting well.

After finding the Northallerton ground there were no players and the pavilion locked. So plan B went to Crakehall who were playing Eryholme.Crakehall ground is one of the smallest grounds in England. There are numerous tree in field of play. One boundary is about 20 yards to the wall of the church.Eryholme batted first and were struggling to score.

So we moved on to Newton-Le -Willows who were playing Spennithorne @ Hornby.I had seen them a few weeks ago with Ron Deaton.To get to the ground you have to cross a railway line and into a farmers field.Spennithorne batted first and reached 102 with a young lad scoring fifty.
Newton-Le-Willows started slowly and were losing wickets however they got to the position were they required five an over with six overs to go.They won the match with a six on the first ball of the last over.

Arrived home at 10 o,clock . Along day but very enjoyable.