FREEZING SCARBOROUGH

By Brian Sanderson,

The weather forecast was dry so I set off with Bob Procter to Scarborough.Bairstow was still not out with a prospect of a big score.We sat down by the pavilion hoping to get away from the cold breeze however this did not happen.It got so cold we watch the match from the tea shop , with Bob asking for hot chocolate.

Bairstow got out with his score on 182 and Yorkshire had achieved another batting bonus point but never looked like scoring 400 by the 110 over.Mc Grath had managed 19 runs in 90 minutes.Bresnan manged to run himself out trying a third run on overthrow.Lunchtime came and we retreated to the car for wamth and sandwiches.

After lunch we went to set at the Trafalgar Square end were I spoke to Brian Cobb for the first time this season.Mr and Mrs McGrath watched their son score 90 with Yorkshire been bowled out for 447.Whilst Leicester were batting Steve Patterson passed on some hand warmers to Anthony,s parents.Yorkshire could help to reduce their debt if they started selling hand warmers to sepectators.I was then joined by Peter Mann who was spending a few days in Scarborough for the match.Overall the crowd was very poor due the cold weather.

Yorkshire started to get wickets regularly with Bresnan not getting any. He looked very fit with the England fitness regime.The wickets fell to Patterson and McGrath.After tea we again went to tea shop to watch behind glass.We decided to leave at 5 P.M. with Leicester eight wickets down.Yorkshire should win this match subject to the weather.It was hard work watching in the cold weather and look forward to some warmth.