GAME OF TWO HALVES

By Brian Sanderson,

After the mileage of yesterday it was nice to walk to the match at Headingley  on a warm morning.To-day match was Yorkshire Seconds against  Lancashire Seconds in a three day friendly.However the Yorkshire scoreboard has been damaged and we were playing Cashire.

Looking at the Yorkshire side it had a different look from I saw them at Nottingham.One change was Tim Bresnan  playing after hard winter in Australia.The second change was a big talking point for the fifty spectators watching the match as Anthony Gale, the Yorkshire captain, had dropped himself from the first team match at Lords. I could not see Geoff Boycott playing for the second team.Photograph below is of Gale coming back on the field after a rest.

Lancashire won the toss and batted  however they were soon two wickets down. Then Stephen Croft and Jordan Clark started to take Yorkshire bowling apart. Before lunch seven bowlers had been tried but Lancashire were 140 for 2  and looking good.

After lunch Bresnan soon got Croft out after he had helped in a century stand.As you can see from the photograph the next highest batsman was Gavin Griffiths batting at number 10 who was involved in the second highest partnership.

As you can see from the bowling figures Moin Ashraf bowled very well and Tim Bresnan had a good  net.In the afternoon session Lancashire scored 75 runs and lost eight wickets.

This is a photograph of Yorkshire leaving the field at tea-time when they had bowled Lancashire out for 222.I wonder if David Shepherd watched from above and still a jigging as the score was 222..

After tea Callis was soon out  which brought in Anthony Gale.When I left at 6.10 Yorkshire were 60 for 1 with Gale going well.

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