BLUE SKIES

By Brian Sanderson,

On Saturday I had decided not to go to a match because of the rain.The weather forecast for to-day was dry so I orginally thought of going to see York but I heard it had been called off.Plan B was to watch Waddilow cup matches  with Mick Bourne.

We called firstly to see the birth pl;ace of Sir F.S.Jackson  in  Chapel Allerton which is situated near the Police Station.The first match we went to was North Leeds against Green Lane.Green Lane were batting with the pitch with a long boundary to the club house.The pitch looked dry even with all the rain which had fallen.Tony Hutton joined us in the sunshine who had also stopped in yesterday.We stayed for about twenty overs and moved on to Collingham.

Collingham were playing Kirkstall Eductional  and were batting.There were three wickets to fall  with 130 on the board but plenty of overs to go.They managed to reach 201 in the 45 over but the bowling did not look strong.Kirkstall were missing some players and Andy Siddal  who is the coach to Leeds Met that I saw on Wednesday.I had been informed by Tony Hutton that Met won with a good 10th wicket partnership to go to the final in The Parks. The comment by Andy was that he should not have played because he was not fit due to bad knee.

After tea Kirkstall were 50 for 5 as we left to go back to North Leeds. Green Lane had scored 172 and North Leeds had lost two wickets for 50 with 25 overs to go.They kept losing wickets  and were 100 for 5.There were no programmes and the web-site does not give a up-to-date scores so you struggling to now the name of the batsmen.As I had to leave for my dinner North Leeds wanted 40 in abot 8 overs with four wickets to fall.

It would be nice to have a single piece of paper with the team names on them which helps  spectators to know the players.