I visited Weetwood first in the morning were Yorkshire Academy were playing Scotland Development X1 in a two day match and a one day match on Thursday.When I arrived Tony Hutton and Jenny were already waiting for the start of the match.This gave us time to catch up were everybody had been in the last few days.The Yorkshire Academy side looked very weak as we could only recognise only about four players.
One of there was Stabler who got two wickets before he got a back injury and had to hobble off. Beenwhile David Thorpe arrived who explained the scoring system for the under nine matches which would take to long in this blog.
I left a lunch-time to go to Headingley with the score 111 for 2 with prospect of a big score for Scotland.The photograph below is of the Academy before the start of play.
After lunch I went to the stadium to see the forty over match against the Unicorns who will finish after this season as this competition is finishing and be replaced by a fifty over competition.Yorkshire again had a weak side out.
Yorkshire batted first an the innings was dominated by Garry Ballance and scored his highest one day score for Yorkshire of 139 which lasted 113 balls and scored 15 fours and 3 sixes in a total of 266 for 6.He could have been out on a number of occasions .The Unicorn side consisted mainly of Minor County players.
After the break the main innings was by Matthew Linekar who has played for Notts, and Derby but now plays for Lincolnshire.As I had seen him at Cleethorpes when he played against Cumberland.To-day he scored 107 in 105 balls and was a excellent innings.However after the top four batsmen no-body stopped with him long enough to win.The shock bowler was Jack Leaning who took five wickets for the first time His bowling figures were five for twenty-two.Unicorns lost six wickets for twenty-two runs.Yorkshire won the match by 32 runs but it could have been a different story if the Unicorns had found another batsman like Lineker.
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