BERGER BITES BACK

By Brian Sanderson,

On a warm Monday I set off with Ron Stansfield to Blackley.The ground is situated just of the M62 over looking Elland and they are in the Halifax Cricket League.However we were going to watch Huddersfield New College against Bedford School in the School Sport Magazine National U17 Cricket Cup.

We were joined by David Thorp ,our Golcar representative,to see Eddy Wilson play for Huddersfield. He plays for Golcar, Yorkshire Academy and Second Teams and is a wicket-keeper however to day he started as a fielder.

Bedford started well and Huddersfield could not get a wicket so Eddy bowled left-arm spin. Even his father did not know he bowled spin however he got a wicket.Then the wicket-keeper hurt his hand and had to retire so Eddy took over the gloves.He stumped two batsman and caught another.However overall the fielding was poor in the last few overs so enabling Bedford to get to 256 in forty overs.

After tea Eddy and the wicket-keeper set off at a good pace until the wicket-keeper was out.They needed about 130 in twenty overs.Then Eddy was out bowled by the left-arm spinner causing Huddersfield to struggle against good bowling.

As we left Huddersfield needed 40 off 4 overs with three wickets to fall.After a stressful journey home, I had a message from David. Huddersfield had won with balls to spare."Berger" had scored the winning runs.Earlier he had conceeded over forty runs in his four overs of bowling.He did say he was a batsman not a bowler and this came true.The headline was choosed by David.