To-day I travelled up to the Emrites Durham International Cricket Ground or to me Chester-le-Street with Ron Stansfield.Yorkshire were playing Durham in a four day Championship match.Yorkshire have to win after their defeat by Sussex.Root and Bresnan were playing for the first time this year with Lees and Brooks not playing.
We watched the match from the pavilion which is at mid-wicket however we were protected from the cold west wind with Durham batting.The first person we meet going into the ground was Joe Root,s grandfather who I had met at the Lancashire match last week.The photograph is the view from were we were sitting which is the best view in Championship cricketBy lunch Durham were 94 for 2 with prospect of more runs to come.
However after lunch Yorkshire took another five wickets for 18 runs with prospect of Yorkshire batting soon.However ,with the help of "Colonel "Mustard who scored 70 runs , Durham scored 237 . This seemed about sixty runs too much when seven wickets were down.
A Durham spectator next to me travelled from Lindisfarne to watch the matches subject to the tide.We left about 5.30 with Yorkshire two wickets down including a poor run out of Jaques.Weather to-morrow is forecasting rain in the morning which could effect the result of the match.
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