On Friday afternoon I went down to Knights Auction in Leicester to view Len Hutton memorabilia and to bid on some items on Saturday afternoon so no cricket viewing.To-day Harrogate were playing Yorkshire Academy in a Yorkshire E.C.B league match. It started at 12.00 and lasts 55 overs.The forecast was hot and sunny but it was cloudy and windy.
I sat behind the bowlers with Jenny and Malcom wrapped up for winter. Harrogate ground is similar to Weetwood few chairs and open to the elements.One supporter called it windy hill.
Harrogate batted first on a beautiful staw and dry wicket whilst yesterday,s wicket looked very green on which Harrogate won yesterday.The Academy also won yesterday and were one point ahead of Harrogate and placed second in the league.So it was second against third.
A.Twigg opened the batting and scored 115 not out in the fifty-five overs with Harrogate scoring 240 for 3.Yorkshire bowled eight bowlers with little success apart from Karl Carver who is 17 years old and bowls slow left-arm. and looks a good prospect.Yorkshire did not help themselves by dropping two catches.However we thought Harrogate could have scored more but were in with a good chance of winning as Yorkshire were short of batting.Wrong again.
They opened with Jonathen Tattersall and Ryan Gibson who does not normally open.They put on 151 for the first wicket and Gibson went on to score 139. This was his first century for the Academy and scored 17 4,s and 2 sixes.He hit the ball very hard and Harrogate bowlers struggled to control Yorkshire.A bowler called A.Laws who also plays for Leeds and Bradford University took four wickets. Yorkshire won the match in 44 overs with four wickets down all taken by Laws.
Overall Harrogate bowling looked weak for a third team in the League.The photograph above is of Ryan after he scored his fifty and for his future may he score many more centuries for Yorkshire..
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