ANOTHER MATCH OF THE DAY

By Brian Sanderson,

This afternoon we went to watch Methley against Wrenthorpe in the Central Yorkshire League.At The start of play Methley were lending the league with Wrenthorpe second.Wrenthoroe had been beated by Wakefield Thornes two weeks ago for the first defeat in the league since 2009.

Wrenthorpe batted first and got off to a bad start.The top three batsmen were out quickly.By good bowling and a run out.It was up to Eric Austin and Neil Gill to put together a stand of 90.Austin was coming back from knee recontruction and playing his first match of the season.He batted number seven and scored 35 runs while Gill scored 44.There was a interesting maiden over bowled by Methley as there were seven extras taken off the over.Wrenthorpe put a competitive total of 205 for 9 inthe fifty overs.

After tea Methley got off to quick start with Hamid Khan who scored 25.Wrenthorpe dropped two catches in the slips and with the very next bowls bowled the Methley batsmen so costing them no runs.Tom Glover and Grig Batty both took four wickets a piece. Causing Methley to be bowled out in 41 overs for 136 so making Wrenthorpe to be the leader of the league.

There was a very cold westerly wind blowing across the pitch so we sat in the old groundsman hut .I thought the match would be high scoring but the bowlers won the day apart from one stand which helped to win the match. You can never tell how the match will go.