There was a chance to go to a new ground for me at Westhoughton near Wigan.The match was a forty over match between Lancashire Seconds and Durham.The forecast was that it would be wet in the morning and clearing in the afternoon.The match should have started at 12.00 but it did not start till 1.00 due to the rain.
The club was founded in 1856 and play in the Bolton Cricket League.It is a new ground as seen from the above photograph and is a large playing area but very open.This caused problem all day due to the cold wind blowing across the field.There was a good collection of Yorkshire and Lancashire P.C.W in attendance together with a person from New Zealand who had come over for the Test Matches.
Lancashire batted first and opened with Davies and Lilley who was captain for the day.Davies is a wicket-keeper batsman who was in the England under 19 tour to Australia. John Abrahams was there to see him as the manager of the England under 19 side.Davies scored a good 94 in a total of 236.
One of Durham,s opening batsmen was Ramanpreet Singh born in Newcastle. He also has been involved in England under 19 sides.He scored to-day 106.One of the Lancashire opening bowlers was Kabir Ali who has recently tranfered from Worcesterhire and has played 14 one day internationals for England so quite a contrast in experence.
I left abot 5,15 with Singh still batting but looked like Durham losing the match.When I looked at the Durham web site it stated that Durham wanted 16 of the last over and lost by 4 runs.Excellent day had by all.
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