When is Lunch?

Posted by Brian Sanderson,

The sun was shining again as I went to pick Ron up after his holiday in Scotland.The match was at Weetwood were Leeds @ Bradford University were playing Durham University in a two day Championship match. Durham required seven points to win the league and Leeds required two points more than Loughborough to go through to the final at Lords.
The final is a one day match while the championship is two days. Only cricket could think of this.

Umpires were the around at the start of the match. Glen Pearson arrived in his shorts ,not to be recommended.He told us the Leeds Met Women won the final yesterday against Loughborough. Well done.
Second umpire was Don Oslear who is now retired and is assessor for umpires.The two umpires for the match was Darwood who used to play for Yorkshire and other counties and a Yorkshire League umpire.

Durham coach is Graeme Fowler who played for Lancashire, Durham and England.Durham batted first and progressed to 100 for 1 just before one o,clock which should have been lunch. However lunch had been ordered for two o,clock in error.It was decided to go on till one thirty when lunch should be ready.However a wicket fell a few minutes later and all the players left the field.

All the players stood around for twenty minutes and then lunch arrived.The match started again at two ten.The match would finish at six thirty.Tea arrived and Durham had lost five wickets for just over 200 runs so collecting two bonus points.

After tea Durham were batting well . Then the Yorkshire League umpire gave a caught behind by the wicket keeper.From the pavilion it seem to catch his pads. Durham lost another two quick wickets.When we left they were just short of 300 with eight wickets down.

All to play for to-morrow.