GOOD DAY AT SCARBOROUGH

By Brian Sanderson,

The forecast was sunny so it is always good to go to Scarborough.Earlier in the season on the visit to the resort winter clothing was reqiuired but to to-day sun cream.

Yorkshire were playing Gloucestershire  in a four day Championship match.Before the match started Gary Ballance  and Joe Root were given their county caps which must have been thrilling for Joe Grandfather who was at the match.Geoffrey Boycott was at the match and I saw him talking to Ted Lester who played his first Yorkshire match in 1945 on this ground.

Gloucestershire batted first and soon were in trouble at 9 for 4 with Patterson and Ashraf bowling well.Sidebottom did not play to-day and would have been very useful in these conditions.Ian Cockburn, whose father played for Lancashire until 1983,helped with  William Gidman to establish a reasonable score.Gidman scored 47 but the highest scorer was Jack Taylor who scored 49 in 45 balls.Anthony Ireland from Zimbabwe helped to put on 36 for the last wicket partnership to bring the score to 215.

Patterson, Ashraf and Rafiq all took three wicets a piece but the feeling was that Yorkshire should have bowled them out cheaper but if you were given 215 as a Glous total you would have taken it at the begining of play.

When Yorkshire started batting Lyth was out on his second ball for a duck.Yorkshire gave three easy catches but they were dropped  so saving them being four wickets down.At the end of the day the total was 61 for 2.Forecast for to-morrow is rain so Yorkshire could lose some more overs which for the season is over 2000 due to the weather.

I enjoyed the day in the sunshine and talking to friends from London who come up to Scarborough every year. This will be my only trip to Scarborough this year so Good Luck Yorkshire.