By Brian Sanderson,
Looking in my diary I noticed there was a smi-final of the Lords Taverners under 13 at West Bretton which is a ground I have not visited before. Tony Hutton was there and he said he had not been on the ground for over twenty years. The ground is just one mile away from the M1 and next to the Sculpture Park.On the excellent web-site for the club it states it was founded in 1907 and now plays in the Pontefract League. They have two Saturday teams and a Sunday team.
The ground is situated off Park Road and we were meet by a ball flying into the road.It is a neat ground with a good pavilion which has a painting of it by Jack Russell which is hanging in the pavilion. There is views of cows in the next field and a sight of Barnsley in the distance.
The under 13 Lords Taverners fixtures consist of 16 teams split into four groups.The winners of the groups play in the semi-finals.This match was Heavy Woollen against Huddersfield who were bowling when we arrived.Heavy Woollen were struggling until the eighth wicket partnership put on over 60 to bring the total to 173 in the forty over.
At tea it started to rain and players together spectators tucked into a excellent tea including strawberries and ice-cream.
David Thorpe has turned into our tea expert and rated it very highly.
After about one hour it stopped raining and Huddersfield batted against good bowling.They struggled with some good catches taken by Heavy Woollen. As we left Huddersfield were 102 for 7 with eleven overs to go.
The final to-morrow is at Cleckheaton at 11.30 start.I do not think they will be able to beat the teas and the views.
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