LAST BALL LOSS

By Brian Sanderson,

Looking at the weather forecast this morning it stated that rain was due about 3.00 and rain till 7.00.At about 12.00 it started to rain and thoughts of watching television in the afternoon was next favourite.
However it stopped raining about 12.45 so sent off to watch Yorshire against Sussex in a forty over match.

The match started on time with Sussex asking Yorkshire to bat first which was senseable with the rain due.Both sides colours included a lot of blue and was very hard to distinguish between the sides.I now both sides want to sell their shirts to supporters but why they can not have different colours I do not know. After four overs it started to rain.

The cricekt started again at 3,50 so lossing twelve overs per side.Jaques was soon out bowled while I was helping to put away the books at Vivian  and Geoff,s out door bookstall.All the proceeds from the sale of the books go back into Yorkshire cricket and at the point that is £5000  which is a excellent effort.Gale and Lyth batted well put could not go past fiifty runs.After the twenty-eight over Yorkshire had scored 200 and this was increased by Duckwoth - Lewis to 206.

I was sitting in front of a ex-player from Colton cricket club who I played with over forty-five years ago.We spoke about Jack Appleyards X1 who played in the Leeds area in the 1950,s.All the proceeds of the matches went to Leed Infirmary and the matches were played at Rounday Park which brought over 40,000 spectators to one match.

Sussex stated batting  in bad light which lasted till nearly the end of the innings. The two best Sussex batsmen was Christopher Nash who scored 53 and Ed Joyce who scored 54.It was a  exciting finish to the match.Three over to go they needed thirty-seven.Two overs twenty- seven and then the final over sixteen. Rafiq bowled the last over with the first bowl going for six and then the next for  four so now they reqired six in four bowls .This last bowl was hit for two so Sussex win the match. This type of matches are why limited over matches are good to watch.