Goldern Oldies

Posted by Brian Sanderson,

On Monday was the first day of the above compertition. There were 29 grounds were matches were being played with teams from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.

After picking Ron Stansfield up I decided to watch Bradford League against Gold Coast Cricket Society at Pannel. Arriving at the match we found only the Bradford League side there.Reg Parker was there again with Brian Cobb and Harry.

The match was due to start at Noon however the Australians were still missing. I got talking to a man who lived in U.S.A.but was born in South Africa.He had come specially to watch the match. Eventually the Australians turned up. It seems the bus driver did not know Harrogate and had been to Killinghall the other side of the town.

Bradford League batted first and had to go off twice due to rain.During the afternoon a number of people turned up.Tony Hutton, Ron Deaton, Richard Pullan and Mick Bourne. It was a meeting of the Professional Cricket Watchers only Brian Senior was missing. He and David Thorpe had gone up to Lofthouse to watch a match.

Bradford reached 180 and the Australian batted. However the rains came again and the match was abandoned.

The next day would be Wednesday for the next round.