JAKEMAN COUNTRY

By Brian Sanderson,

On a bright sunny morning I set off with Ron Stansfield to go and watch Holmfirth who were playing Lepton Highlanders. As Peter Davies can not get involved in the blog, I decided to visit the Huddersfield Second Divison match.

I had not watched cricket at Holmfirth,nor seen Lepton and nor watched a second division match.So I was looking forward to it.To get into the ground you turn left after the Coop along a small dirt road.I parked in the carpark at the far end of the ground.The ground is attractive with a old pavilion which they were improving.

On the chalk board I saw the ball was sponsered by Mrs Jakeman.Looking at the records Fred Jakeman played 10 matches for Yorkshire before going on to Nothampton.He headed the Huddersfield League averages in 1940.He was a product of Holmfirth.

The home team batted first with the opening bat S.Denton scoring 44 out of 58. From then on wickets fell quickly to the bowling of Stephen Brown and Dale Winterburn.
They finihed on the score of 101 in about 33 overs.While they were batted we could thunder in the distance and turned out the match at Lepton was called off due to the heavy rain.

We had been able to purchase a programme which enabled us to se who was batting and bowling . Well done Holmfirth.

Lepton started batted and soon lost wickets. The bowlers were Iqbal and Max Gummerson.They were soon 30 for 9 and thought we would soon move on to Honley . However the 11 became the top scorer with 9 even though it looked he had not played much cricket. They were all out for 42.

There had been generally poor batting rather than good bowling.

Moving on to Honley were Richard Jakeman was batting for Honley.They were playing Shelley who had scored 169.Honley last week had scored 372 to beat Hoylandswaine.
Jakeman reached his 50 before been bowled. He seemed to have one or two words with the bowler.Meet Peter Dibb at the match who goes to the meetings at Huddersfield.
Honley were sponsered by Jakeman Builders and Alex Jakeman was playing in the second team who arrived back as we left.

Pleased to go to the Huddersfield League as I was brought up in the Leeds and Bradford Leagues.