WET FRIDAY AFTERNOON

By Brian Sanderson,

Hoping for a better day at Headingley.The weather was fine but a cold wind.Sitting in the Trueman Stand we watched Hampshire bowled out for 232 before lunch.Shahzad taking his fifth wicket.

After lunch Yorkshire soon lost the wickets of Sayers and Lyth.The weather was coming darker with a threat of rain.Root was caught by the wicket-keeper of Cork and the next ball the umpires took the players of for bad light.It then started raining heavily.

I retreated to the Long Room. There I met Martin Howe who wrote a book on Rockley Wilson.He had come up to-day to give a scrapbook of Frank Smailes.Frank played for Yorkshire in the 1930,s and 1940,s having played in one Test Match.

Yorkshire are 62 for3 with a lead of 185.Prospect of rain so looks like a draw.