I had better luck than John as I was able to see a match between Saltaire and Bradford and Bingley.
Arriving at about 1.40 after a good pub lunch the match was only two overs old and should have started at 1.00.
Again the weather started off sunny but when we arrived the clouds came in again.
Geraldo,the Bingley scorer, said orginally the wickets had not been alined correctly and they had to use Saturday,s wicket ater cutting and rolling the pitch.Bingley were batting and were going to get a big score with the help of very poor fielding.There was a opening stand of 154 with Slater scoring a hundred.At this time Brian Senior arrived after walking down from the bus station and need to sit down by the pavilion.The club has a famous history of great players including S.F. Barnes and Jim Laker.
My sister and myself decided to walk to Salts Mill over the River Aire as the temperature was cool and the home side poor.It is worth a visit into the mill to see the Hockney paintings and to see the video on the history of Saltaire.
When we returned Bingley had scored 428 for 6 and Atkinson had scored 108.In 14 overs they had scored 155.At this stage we decided to go home and it is sad for such a famous club to come to this situation.They were bowled out for 176.
As you can see from the photograph the pitch is a public park overlooked by the mill.Beautiful location if you can ignore the bike riders going repently round the pitch.
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