NO ICE CREAM

By Brian Sanderson,

This year is the last year of the Ambleforth Cricket Festival so I had to go.There were four of us including Brian Senior, David Thorpe and Graham, a friend of David.The sun was shining and was very warm.The Abbey is home of the Benedictine monks since 1802.The view of the four cricket grounds is excellent.

There are eight teams playing and split into two groups.In the first group Essex were leading and Yorkshire second.In the second group Durham were first and Cardiff second.
Yorkshire were playing Durham who scored 202 in the first innings.Essex were playing Cardiff and scored 211 in their innings.

At lunch time we went to Gilling East village which has a excellent pub and The Church of the Holy Cross.The clock in the tower was bought and placed there through the efforts of Prince Ranjitsinhji, the cricketer.He often lived in the village in 1889.He organised cricket matches at Gilling in which county cricketers played, to rise money for the clock and the repair of the tower.After lunch we went to see the cricket ground which is now in a school.

Going back to the Abbey we called into the Tea shop and David wanted a icecream however they did not sell them.He had to settle for a chocolate cake.

Going back to the cricket matches we saw Essex beat Cardiff. The coach for Essex was Keith Fletcher who still looked well.Yorkshire won their match by three wickets and overs to spare.

I would recommend people to go to the Abbey to discover the grounds.Thank you for Tony Hutton for taking me the first time.