ANOTHER DAY IN THE SUN

Posted by Brian Sanderson,

I picked up Ron Stansfield and Malcolm and went to Stanford Bridge. The match was Yorkshire Seconds against Surrey Seconds.On the Yorkshire web-site it states it is a three day Second Eleven Championship match and on the scorecard however it is friendly match with 13 cricketers aside.There were eight alteration to the scorecard on the Surrey team as Yorkshire were not informed of their side how ever it is on the Surrey web-site.

There were two ex-Test Players at the match John Hampshire and Graham Thorpe who is the Surrey coach.Walking round the ground I had a chat with John and Jenny who mention they read the Blog. Thank you.

Yorkshire batted first with Joe Root and Gary Ballance.Both seemed to be under no difficulty until Ballance was dropped at slip.He went on to score 70. One of the opening bowler was Tom Lindley who plays at Saltaire in the Bradford League.

The Surrey bowling and fielding was poor and Joe Root scored 125 and Yorkshire went on to score 352 until they declared with 11 overs to go.Hannon-Dalby took a wicket before close.

The weather and company was excellent but the cricket was not of a good standard.