Looking at the weather forecast for this week Friday looked the best day to watch cricket at Derby.Opening the curtains this morning the sun was shining and so I set of with Bob Procter to Derby.After a easy run down to the ground Bob was able to obtain two signatures from Ricky Pointing,the ex Australian captain. who was now playing for Surrey. He has scored 23657 first class runs at 55.27 average. On Derby side was Shiv Chanderpaul who has now scored 22182 first class runs at average of 56.01.He had scored another century yesterday and was still not out.
Derbyshire were only two wickets down after yesterday and looked in no problem this morning.Until Meaker bowled a ball at Chanderpaul to be caught by Ponting.With Madsen they had put on a record third wicket partnreship for Derby against Surrey of 265.
After lunch with the new bowl Surrey seem to wake up for awhile and when Medson was out for 152 they were 337 for 6 after 88 overs with a prospect of getting full batting bonus points but this did not happen. Wainwright and Johnston seem to be unable to score fast enough.One of the crowd was David Byas, ex Yorshire captain, who is a umpire assessor now.
After tea with the sun still shining Johnston reached 72 with equal his highesr first class score and Derby were all out for 452.Surrey soon lost a wicket due to a stupid run out and finished on 35 for 1.
A excellent day and when will we see two players who have scored over 45000 runs between them on a cricket field again.
The photograph is of the Derby pavilion.
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