When I went out for my paper on Saturday morning the rain had nearly stopped after fourteen hours so time to find a cricket match.Looking at the Nidderdale Cricket League web-site I find that there are two matches on in all of the nine divisions.They were Dacre Bank and Ripley and as you can see from the photograph I went to Dacre Bank.
The ground is situated in Summerbridge just off the Harrogate to Pateley Bridge Road and is overlooked my a house were Herbert Sutcliffe was born.The club itself played it,s first match in July 1838 and claims to be the oldest club in the area.The match was in the First Division of the Nidderdale League and the opposition was Blubberhouses which is a small village near Dacre.
We arrived just before 3 o,clock to find that the old pavilion had been replaced by a new structure.The ground is near the River Nidd which produced the river soil that the ground is based which enables the rain to run through easily.The match started at and was reduced to 35 overs with Blubberhouses batting. We watch the innings from the side of the pavilion with our view sometimes blocked by players from other clubs who,s matches had been called off.
Blubberhouses highest scorer was Bash Khan who scored 56 with the help of a number of dropped catches.One of the Dacre bowlers was a leg-break bowler called Steve Lawerence who is the son of the late Johny Lawrence ex Yorkshire and Somerset bowler.Blubberhouses reached 151 for 7 in the 35 th over.
The took half an hour tea while we went back to sit in the car as it was getting cold.I switched the radio on to listen to Test Match Special.Agnew was asking Tufnell if he was a member of M.C.C. He replied that he did not know but thought he was not but he could get in the Pavilion as he knew all the attedants over the last thirty years. Also he knew which windows were open. Classic radio.
Beenwhile the fieldind side came with the umpires but the batsmen took another five minutes to show themselves.The time was 6 o.clock so we went home for tea with Geoffrey Boycott telling us why Bairstow got out in the Test Match.
I found this morning that Dacre was bowled out for 74 and Blubberhouses were top of the league.
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