TWO EXYORKSHIRE PLAYERS TO WATCH.

By Brian Sanderson,

On the second day of our trip we went to see Shropshire against Herefordshire on the second day at Shifnal.The market town is about three miles east of Telford . It is on the Shrewsbury -Wolverhampton railway line which runs next to the ground.Also next to the ground is the busy A464 road which makes it very difficult to get out of the ground.On the Sunday Herefordshire had been bowled out for 152 with Ben Sanderson and Randhawa taking seven wickets. Both players had been released by Yorkshire last season and were now playing for Shropshire. Shropshire had been bowled out for 143 with Randhawa scoring 24 when he opened the innings.

We arrived at the ground when Herefordshire lost the wicket of Patel when the score was 49 for 2.Again we had to sit in the shade to watch mainly Sanderson and Randhawa bowl ing between them 61 overs.Sanderson bowls right arm medium and now plays for Rotherham in the Yorkshire E.C.B. league while Randhawa plays for Ossett in the Central Yorkshire league. He bowl left srm spin and gives the  bowl a chance to spin. Last season he had been hit for 36 in one over at Scarborough in a Yorshire second team match against Lancashire.

At lunchtime I was able to go into the new pavilion and there is timeline about the history of the club together with some interesting cricket memorabillia. After lunch Randwaha bowled unchanged  bowling in the end they had scored 146 runs of him in 43 overs but took 5 wickets.

This is a photograph of him coming off the pitch looking tired understandable.We were able to talk to Alan Evans , a Shropshire player who was playing his first match and he was 35 which was a contrast to yesterday when the welsh lad was 16.Eventually Herefordshire declared on 364 for 9  with a lead of 355.

Shropshire batted  and soon lost a wicket but at the end of the day they were  67 for 1 with Evans 23 not out.When we were at Egbaston yesterday Shropshire were bowled out for 113 in about an hour  so losing by 260 runs with Evans LB.W in the first over for 23 whilst Randwaha scored 10  and Sanderson 0.

It was good to see them again and to see them still playing cricket at a reasonable level.