NO PORK PIES AT LIGHTCLIFFE

By Brian Sanderson,

It was a cloudy morning for the final day of the Yorkshire match.I watched the match for the first hour and was able to sit with a number Yorkshire supporters.The first person was Andrew who would be going with me to watch Lightcliffe and Woodlands in the Bradford First Division.The second person was Ron Stansfield who was also going to Lightcliffe with us.The third person was Brian Cobb who stated the pies were good at Lightccliffe.In the meanwhile Northants lost a wicket but Yorkshire wanted more to win the match.

We arrived at Lightcliffe as the umpires were comimg out.Woodlands had won the toss and batted.The pitch looked green  and good for bowling.Soon Woodlands were 60 for 5 with overs to spare. It was Tim Orrell and Chris Brice who helped to bring the total up to 183 for 8 after fifty overs.This was a good total after the early fall of wickets and the green wicket.One of the best bowlers was Moin Ashraf who has played first class cricket for Yorkshire.He took three wickets for 27 in nine overs.

After a pint in The Sun pub Lightcliffe were soon 6 for 38 with Sarfraz Ahmed and Swanepoel bowling well. The batsman could not cope with them.It was left to Johathan Wilson,the captain,to bring the score up to 97 with a not out score of 31.Brice also took three wickets to finish off the innings.However there were no Pork pies.Also it was freezing.

On the way back home we called into Bankfoot who were playing Morley.Morley had scored 221 and Banfoot were 50 for 2 with thirty overs to bowl.The only batsman was Elsroy Powell who scored 38 with a number of straight sixes.As soon as he was out Bankfoot were all out for 122.The best Morley bowler was Kashif Naveed who was a left-arm spinner. He took  4 for 15.You had to keep moving to keep warm.

I understand that Yorkshire drew their match.