VISIT TO SOUTH YORKSHIRE

By Brian Sanderson,

Myself and Ron Stansfield travelled down the M1 to Rotherham cricket ground on Clifton Lane.
The ground is shared with the Rugby Union side but has a seperate pavilion with the bar up stairs.
The match was Yorkshire under 19 against Staffordshire Development X1.The Yorkshire side is run by Brian Lymbury who played in the Bradford League from 1959 to 1988 and is the sixth highest run scorer in the league.The weather was hazy but the sun was due to come out in the afternoon and it did.

Yorkshire side was a strong side comprising main of the player who played at St. Peters two weeks ago.The opening bowlers were Ben Coad of the Academy and Jack Hartley who is the son of Neil Hartley ex Yorkshire.All the bowlers bowled well to restict the Staffordshire side to 118.There was no scorecards so we did not know there names.During the innings at the pavilion a man was doing so tiling on the roof behind the sight screen just to to hinder the batsmen.

There was an hour lunch break as Staffordshire innings finished an hours early.Brian Lymbury came round with a raffle and I won some Roses chocolate which went as a present to the wife.There was about fifty supporters including John Hampshire ex England and Yorkshire batsman.Staffordshire bowled well especially  Dan Cummings who bowled fast from the Rugby end.George Ross was the highest Yorshire batsman with 30 and won the match with twenty overs spare.

It is nice to sit in warm weather watching good cricket.