SUN BACK AT HEADINGLEY

By Brian Sanderson,

The weather forecast for the last two was wall to wall rain so I decided to go to Headingley.The match was Yorkshire under 17 against Lancashire under17 over two days.On Tuesday I wandered into the stadium aspecting the match to start at 11.00 A.M however this did not happen it started at 12.00.The first team was still practicing for Wednesday and extra time was allowed for Lancashire to arrive.

The weather was dry at the begining of the match but the forecast was rain in the  afternoon.Lancashire went in first however I left at 12.30 to play snooker expecting rain.The rain did arrive at 3.00 but they returned to complete eighty overs with Lancashire about 150 for 4 in the evening.

To-day I woke to dry conditions after the rain over night.Harry Deardon,a fifteen year old right hand bat,scored ninety -nine.He was run out going for a second run.Yorkshire bowling was poor and just before lunch they declared after one hundred and nine overs at 286  for 8.The crowd included Tony Hutton back from his tour of Devon.He had not seen much cricket but had enjoyed the tourist sites.
Also back from Scarborough was Jenny  who had brought the sun to Headingley in the afternoon.

Yorkshire were left 75 overs to score 287 to win the first innings points.They started off badly and it was left to Rhodes and Mc Nichol to put to-gether a century partnership.At tea-time there was 34 overs to bowl needed about 170.However due to Lamb who took rhree wickets this was not possible.It was left to Fern to bring the Yorkshire total over two hundred to enable them to get two batting points.Yorkshire were nine wickets down but over eighty runs behind.

There is a one-day match with the same sides at Weetwood to-morrow.It was very good to sit in warm sunshine and watch cricket eventhough the weather forecaters were wrong again.