SECOND DAY OF FARCE

By Brian Sanderson,

The second day of 20/20 Headingley Nottingham were the visitors.Looking at the free scoresheet Nottingham had three player with first-team experience and Yorkshire two.
Nootingham players were:
Scott Elstone,Andy Carter who captained the first match and Jake Ball who is the nephew of Bruce French.
Yorkshire players were:
John Blain and Ben Sanderson.

Yorkshire were batting first again and had lost one over due to rain so it was a 19 over match.Lees got run out for the second time and Ross went on to score over 40 bring the Yorkshire score to 113 for 4 .Carter and Ball bowled there eight overs economical.Yorkshire wicket-keeper was D.Hodgson from Leeds and Bradford University.
Nottingham had four 37 shirt numbers and three 12 on the players backs so was had to tell who they were.

After lunch Scott Elstone shown how the game should be played and scored 73 to win the match.John Blain first two balls went for 10.Another defeat.

Moving on to Weetwood were Tony Hutton and Brian Senior were watching Leeds and Bradford against Lancashire seconds.Lancashire were batting and reached 240 for 6 when we left to return to Headingley.

Yorkshire were batting first again and Lees and Ross were batting well.Then it rained which reduced the match to a fourteen over match.Lees scored over 60 for Yorkshire to reach over 140 .Ball only bowled one over and Carter was not playing.

Nottingham started batting and heavy rainfall also started.Yorkshire required two more overs to complete the match.However after discussions with the Umpires and Nottingham coach the match was called off.Poor finish to the last two days.

No report on the Yorkshire web-site and no scorecards on Nottingham and Derby web-site.It may turn up sometime.A day off to-morrow.