LONGEST ALBANIAN RIVER

By Brian Sanderson,

I also went to Scarborough on Monday and three interested items happen as well as the cricket.John might have heard on the microphone one of the quiz questions for Tuesday night which was what was the longest Albanian river.Answer later.When I arrived at the ground I saw Graham Eccles on the gate.Graham was Leeds Rugby second row forward in the 1980,s and ex steward of Leeds Supporters Club.He now lives in Bridlington and was offered a job for four days.The last interesting happening was watching Shahzad dancing while listening to his I-Pod while fielding.

After travelling 430 miles in three days I went with Ron Stansfield to Weetwood. The match was 2nd Eleven Championship match between M.C.C. Universities v Nottingham.When we arrived there were six spectators including Jenny and Nottingham were batting.The opening batters were Akil Patel, who is the brother of Samit, and Karl Turner who played for Durham last year.They put on a stand of 130 for the first wicket before Patel was out.

After lunch we were handed a print-out of the players and noticed Billy Roots name on the sheet.Talking to Paul Johnson ,he said that Billy had been released by Yorkshire and was playing his first match for Nottingham.He was down to bat 5.
Ali Brown came into bat three who is 41 years old.He scored 60 quickly and Turner batted on.Next came Elstone who also hit a number of boundaries but was caught out on the boundary.Next came Billy Root but was soon out caught in the covers.Poor Lad.

We left at tea with the score 340 for 4 with Turner still not out over 100.

The answer to the river question was Drin.

Hoping Tony Hutton is well and is reading the blog.