VERITY MATCH IN OMAGH 1941

By Brian Sanderson,

On Wednesday 8th of February Yorkshire cricket Archives received two score sheets for match between Green Howards against Mr Walsh X1.The Green Howards included Norman Yardley and Hedley Verity.

The match itself was described in Alan Hill book called A portrait of a cricketer
Hedley Verity and there is photogragh of the sides together with picture of the wicket at the Tyrone and Fermanagh hospital.The Green Howards were on manoeuvers in Northern Ireland.They were beaten at cricket by a North-West Ireland eleven at the garrison town of Omagh in Hedley Verity last game on a British field. Verity took eight wickets for 55 runs to dismiss the Irishmen for 112 but the Green Howards ,cloaked in the anonymity of a "Miltary X1", lost by 21 runs.

There is also a copy of newspaper report of the match and an averages for Strabane Cricket Club for 1941 for whom Yardey and Verity played for that season.It was their most successful season since 1910. I e-mail the Strabane historical society to see if they could obtain details of these matches.It will be interesting if they can find any details.

I have put the details of the match on Cricket Archives for the season 1941. This will appear in the next few days.While looking at this excellent web-site ,I noticed they have recently put copies of The Cricketer magazines since 1948 on the site.You can read them as though it is a magazine. Brilliant idea.

You might also look at the Hillam and Monk Fryston cricket club web-site. On the home page there a link to Yorkshire Post article about the club which has been playing cricket for over 300 years. I hope to visit the club this season.

It is also the Centenary of The York and District Cricket League tis year.There is a cabinet full of celebratiing the fact in The Long Room at Headingley. I hope people will stop and look at during the coming season.

Latest news is that Howard Clayton is the new Second Team scorer for next year.