Posted by Brian Sanderson,
I set off with Ron Stansfield to see Burley against Beckwithshaw in the Airedale and Wharfedale Cricket league.At the start of the day Burley were 7 points in front of Beckwithshaw and victory for Burley would win them the championship.
We sat in front of the pavilion and found out that Burley opening bat had broken his thumb on Thursday at practice.Burley won the toss and decided to bowl and we were joined by Mick from Idle.The two opening batsmen were John Inglis and Paul Critchley who had been scoring runs for fun.They started very slowly when Nick Brook bowled Inglis.Nick did a Tino Best aeroplane impression in celebration.
Nick Brook took the first six wickets and John Wright,Australian, took the rest. Beckwithshaw scored 120 and the feeling was it was 30 runs short.
Burley progressed well until Truswell ran himself out.They reached 100 for 2 until the pressure got to the batsmen.They reached 117 for 8 when one of the Beckwithshaw fielder dived to stop the ball and broke his collar bone.Burley did the right thing and supplied a sub-fielder.One swing to the leg side produced a four and victory.
The last time Burley won the championship was 1964. Peter Mann even smiled when they had won.
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