On a warm Sunday mornig I had a trip to York to see them play Elsecar who are in South Yorkshire Senior Cricket League Division 1. The match was the second round of the E.C.B National Cub Championship .Elsecar who were established in 1895 had beaten Sheffield Collegiate in the first round.Elsecar are coached and captained by Ian Swallow who was the former Yorshire off spinner and he also played for Somerset.
York batted first with Snell and Leaning. The photograph above is of Jack Leaning who is a Yorkshire Second Team player aged 19.The pitch was slow and took spin straight away with the spinners coming on after about six overs.The spinners were Townsend,Shutt and Meadows who bowled 27 overs for 87 taking 6 wickets. The main run scorer was Jack Leaning who scored 86 with the Nick Kay but on the best stand of 45.York scored 181 in their forty-five overs.The feelings were that they should have scored at least twenty more runs.
York opened the bowling with Daniel Wood who bowls left-arm spin due the pitch conditions.He bowled his 9 overs for 18 taking two wickets.The other opening bowler was Jonathan Moxon who is the son of Martyn who is the Director of Professinal Cricket for Yorkshire.He bowls right arm fast and took 3 wickets for 13.The bowler who took the most wickets was Jack Leaning bowling off-spin and took 4 wickets for 43.However the big talking point of the Elsecar innings was a disputed catch by Liam Mc Kendry off his brothers bowling. The umpires and Ian Swallow who was batting had to go over to the Elsecar team to calm them down.
Elsecar were bowled out for 153 with Ian Swallow scoring a good fifty.However it was a pity about the shouting of the Elsecar players about the catch.In the next round York play Treeton away.
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