REVISITING GROUNDS

By Brian Sanderson,

On a sunny Sunday morning I set out to Weetwood were the Yorkshire Academy were playing Appleby Frodingham in the Yorkshire Cricket League.Mollie was sat on the pavilion front and Jenny was sitting in the sunshine.Mollie had been to Barnsley to see the Academy lose in the last overon Saturday..She gave the players a large bag of sweets and settled down to watch the Acacdemy bowl with Coad and Wainman.Peter Mann arrived from Burley to tell us of their victory yesterday.

We both then set off to Hoylandswaine who were playing Slaithwaite in the Huddersfield Premier League.The ground slopes away down to the houses at the bottom of the field.There is a brillent view of four Power Stations in the distance.The home side batted first and soon start taking control of the match.One of the openers was John Sadler who has played for Yorkshire Seconds,Leicestershire,Derby and England under19 .
He was out in the fourth ball of the final over after scoring 162 .The number three was Alex Morris who has played for Yorkshire, Hampshire and England under 19. He scored over one hundred not out and put on a stand of 241.The home side scored over 300 in the fifty overs.There was numberous six,s over the nearby houses.

After tea they soon had Slaithwaite 53 for 8 when we decided to leave.It was not a competative match however Slaithwaite did not pay their players.

Moving on to Cawthorne were they were playing Clayton West in the Earnshaw Cup.The ground is situated at the end of a dirt lane which opens on to a large cricket pitch. The pavilion is built of wood and also the scoreboard which also harbours the groundsman mowers.They had scored 165 which one of the home playerssaid was not enough. However Clayton West lost eight wickets winning the match.

Looking at Total Scorer when I arrived home the Academy won by eight wickets .I had visited the Huddersfield grounds two years ago on a end of season trip.However both sides had moved from The Huddersfield Central League to The Drakes Huddersfield League since Ivisited them last.