TWO MATCHES BETWEEN SHOWERS

By Brian Sanderson,

The weather forecast was sunny with showers and this was correct.The first match was at York were Yorkshire Seconds were playing British Universties in a three day match.Yorkshire included three capped players Sayers, Mc Grath and Sidebottom who was recovering from injury.

Yorkshire batted first with Sayers and Lees.Sayers was first out and after speaking to the bowler he said he played down the wrong line.Mc Grath was also soon out caught.You must feel this will be his last season with Yorkshire.To-day he spoke to Martyn M,oxon,the Cricket Manager and Mathew Wood from the E.C.B.So we will have to wait for any news in the next few weeks.

Just before lunch Lees was given out L.B.W and the first rain shower came down.So lunch was taken and the rain soon stopped.Tony Hutton arrived after visiting Weetwood were it was raining.Just after lunch Hodgson was soon out after scoring 60.Yorkshire slumped to 154 for 7 when the rain started falling again.Twelve ground staff put the fully sheets on the ground  it looked as though there was thunder rain due however this did not happen.When I went over to speak to Howard Clayton,the Yorkshire scorer,the umpires said the match would not restart until five o,clock.So I moved on to Weetwood.

At Weetwood Yorkshire under 17 were playing Derbyshire under 17 in a two day match.Yorkshire were batting with Will Rhodes and James Mc Nichol.Sitting on the  on top of the slope was Peter France ,who has scored another point, watching the cricket in the sunshine.The match lost about 17 overs due to rain.Yorkshire were three wickets down with a partnership of over 100.Rhodes scored a century after scoring runs on Saturday with the Academy.As I left Yorkshire were 260 for 3 wanting to get maximum batting points to-night by scoring 300.