THIRD DAY OF THE TRIP AND SEEING YORKSHIRE WINNING. WHAT COULD BE BETTER ?

By Brian Sanderson,

On the third day of the tour we drove to the stadium known as Edgbastion which was a great contrast to the last two grounds we had visited. Yorkshire innings had finished  yesterday with a lead of 194. We were able to obtain the signatures of Karl Carver, for his first team debut and Aaron Finch first his century yesterday.

It was the first time I had watched cricket in the stadium as yet is not a as thin a cricket should be. As the above photograph shows the differnce to Usk and Shifnal we visited in the last two days.

We sat with three Warwickshire members who were also interested in cricket memobillia so the conversation was interesting.Warwick soon lost two wickets  and was left to Porterfield and Hain to steady the ship. William Porterfield learnt his cricket at Leeds Met but was born in Londonderry Northern Ireland.Samuel Hain was born in Hong Kong but learnt his cricket in Queensland. I understand he has not yet decided wether he wants to play for England or Australia.At lunch they were 68 for 3.

During lunch time I was able to look into the Museum which has great number of items to look at and would take me about half a day to study all the items so today I just had a chance to have quick look before play started again.By tea time the score was 158 for 8 with Lyth taking two stunning catches and Patterson taking  a great one handed caught and bowl.

Thoughts then turn to when the match would finish to beat the Birmiingham traffic.The match was all over by 4.30 with Carver taking two wickets which was good to see from a young spin bowler.Yorkshire took the maximum of 24 points after completing their fourth Championship win of the season.

This is a photgraph of Yorshire celebrating their victory. On the way back to Leeds we listen to the Test Match with England struggling to hold out for a draw. Just before Leeds Anderson was out and I switched the radio off.

A great three days of sunshine and cricket. I would recommend Minor League cricet on cricket grounds not stadiums.