STORY OF TWO SCOREBOOKS

By Brian Sanderson,

I used to work and play cricket for Yorkshire Bank who played in the Bradford League until they could not raise a second team at the end of 1990,s.My best friend Alan Swaby also played in the same Yorkshire Bank Second team and recently died  suddenly.His son Michael found a scorebook for the 1989 season which brought memoirs back to me of the people who played in that team.The scorer for the season was Richard Swaby, Alan younger son, who deid in a car crash at a young age.

I can not remember anything of the season but only one match was rained off.We were in the First Division of the second Teams and played Pudsey St. Lawerence ,East Bierley and Bowling Old Lane.Some of the players played were as follows:

Alan Hall who opened the batting most ot season if his was not playing in the first team.Quick scoring  right -hand batsman and a good fielder.

Neil Johnson who was a left-handed opening bat who was very good at scoring off his legs.Scored a lot of runs at Second team level.

Andy Davidson, one of the younger members who batted at three and was a good cover fielder.

Tim Claughton,ginger haired all-rounder who usually opened the bowling.Was a nephew of Mardsen who played in the first team.

Gary Weir ,young lad who just started playing in the side. His father supports Pudsey Congs now and follows the side during the summer.

Trevor Hope who was a excellent opening bowler who could move it both ways.Played until he was in this late forties.

Geoff Holland our left armed spin bowler who used to lending the wicket-taker in the side and  I  use to take many stumpingsoff.

We were all workers for the Bank and always had a good team spirit and always enjoyed our cricket.

The second scorebook was the Yorkshire trip to America ,Canada and Bermuda in 1964 which I purchased via e-bay.The Archives have not got the record of the trip so the book is now going into Yorkshire records.Scorebook was purchased at a fair so I do not know how it got here.The matches were played at New York,Toronto, Vancouver,California and Burmuda.One of the player who joined them in Bermuda was Gary Sobers who scored a century and opened the bowling.He was the first over-seas player to play for Yorkshire. I am up-dating Cricket Archive with the wickets and time of the batsmen batted.

Two different scorebooks at different levels of cricket but  both are part of Yorshire Cricket Heritage.