On a beautiful warm morning walked into the Headingley ground without using my ticket as it was free.Purchased a scorecard and obtained Brooks and Plunkett signatures on it as it was their Yorkshire Championship debuts also it was Yorkshire lowest total against Sussex at Headingley.
Settled down to watch the fall of Yorkshire final two wickets with Tony Hutton.The match only lasted thirty minutes when Ballance who had scored 63 was caught by Brown,the Sussex wicketkeeper.Yorkshire losing by an innings and twelve runs.Many words will be spoken and written about the poor effort by Yorkshire.
However the quick finish allowed me to watch some friendly local matches with Mick Bourne..By this time the cloud had arrived and rain was forecast,Mick set a quiz question in the car which was who was on top and bottom cricket first division at the start of the season. Answer at the end of the blog.
First match we went to was St Georges who play at Harewood House ground against a Selby X1.The last time I was at the ground there was a fair on with a helicopter fleights as per photograph.The first person we meet was Steve Bindman who could not get a match to-day. During the season he will be playing for Cawood and Cambridge Methodists also any other clubs who want him.There was a cold breeze blowing across the pitch whilst St Georges were batting.A walk round the boundary was enough to move on to Collingham.
The next match was Collingham were playing Cleckheaton who play in the Bradford League.As we arrived Tony Hutton was parking his car.Cleckheaton were batting and had scored 140 for 2 but soon lost wickets. However one shot was hit for six strikeing a tree branch and a young lad caught it .Soon the rain started to fall so we moved on to our third match.
That was Spofford against Kirk Deighton were we had a chance to have a cup of tea.There was a number of cars at the ground watching Kirk Deighton bat scoring 170.We then moved on but the rain stopped us watching any more matches.
Lets hope that rain does not dominate 2013 season. Answer to the quiz question was Derbyshire top with Durham bottom as they had been deducted points before the season started for exceeding the salary cap for 2012.
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