WINDY LANCASHIRE

By Brian Sanderson,

Myself and Bob Procter decided to go to watch Enfield against Church .I know a number of Church supporter who are very friendly and enjoy watching cricket.We  sent off from Headingley but were stuck in a traffic jam because of a half marathon at the Leeds Ring Road which was closed.However after losing 30 minutes because of  traffic we managed to leave Leeds. On arriving at Keighley we were meet my another traffic jam due to road works.Next delay was caused by a train crossing as we had to wait for the train to pass.When we arrived at the ground the match had started with Church batting.

I visited the Enfield ground two years ago with Peter Mann and since then the  tea-room had been burnt down .A new one is in the process of being built and the teas were served in the bar area overlooking the field.There was a cold wind blowing down the valley which made us qutie cold by the end of Church innnings. They had scored 131 which we thought was a low score. One of the supporters was David Lloyd of Sky T.V. who arrived on his motor cycle.

We decided to move on to Riston which was about 10 minutes away by car.They were playing Accrington who had scored 218 for 5 which looked a winning score. We sat behind the bowlers arm away from the wind but in the sunshine.It was very pleasent watching in a very neat ground.The only problem was a number of children playing near by.The football scorers kept been shouted out and a number of people were watching the television rather than the cricket.The cricket was poor as Riston struggled to get near the Accrington score.
So we decided to move on to Lowerhouse ground.

This ground I had not visited before and they were playing Nelson.As we arrived the ninth Nelson wicket had fallen and they were 70 chasing 232.Another non-match  however it did not seem to matter to the home supporters who were happly drinking outside.The ground looked well kept and you could watch the match from the car.As we were leaving Nelson were bowled out for 76.

Nice to see the old friends from Church who will be going to Colywn Bay in June so Iook forward to seeing them . Church had bowled Enfield out for 124 so winning the match after looking at the Lancashire web-site  after having my tea.Well done Church on Sunday.