Meeting Mike Taylerson at York Station we decided against queueing to see the A4 locomotives at the NRM and instead enjoyed a pleasant walk, partly by the river, to St Peter's School for the fifth and last match of this year's Yorkshire Schools' festival, an event which has been going for 90 years, Can it ever have had better weather?
Today's opponents were Durham Academy but as last year they seemed only to have brought a scratch side. We were soon joined by Tony Hutton and a little later, Malcolm who kept us in touch with events at Trent Bridge. Durham batted first and lost a wicket in the first over and apart from a little rally for the third wicket struggled constantly against some excellent Yorkshire bowling. To compound their difficulties they contrived a run out and twenty minutes before lunch they were all out for 60. Not what pcws had in mind on such a lovely day.
Yorkshire began their reply confidently and continued thus after lunch and a ten wicket win looked likely until just before the target was reached a wicket fell but it meant nothing and victory was assured by half past two completing a festival clean sweep for the Yorkshire lads. During the lunch interval we had been joined by Brian Senior, far from impressed that he was to see so little cricket. Disappointing though the cricket was the conversation was good and notes were compared on the next couple of weeks' cricket. When two or three are gathered together what Mr Senior calls the 'hidden agenda' of cricket comes to the surface, exposing matches at various levels and various grounds.
For many Queen's Park, Chesterfield will be the puller next week but for those who prefer quieter fare there is second eleven cricket at Maiden Castle, the sports ground for Durham University which will be a first for me and I look forward to seeing how the facilities have changed since I competed in athletics' events there in the 1960s.Interspersed with these county matches there are plenty of schools' matches.
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