ANOTHER LONG DAY

By Brian Sanderson,

Another beautiful summers morning as I set off at 9.30 A.M to the second day to  Harrogate.Yorkshire two batsmen were Tattersall and Hodgson. While they were batting Ryan Fisher and Carl Carver were doing a half an hour of exercises as shown above. The two batsman had been in no trouble apart from a missed caught and bowl against Tattersall.They put on a stand of  136 before Tattersall was caught by Shafique the wicket keeper. The keeper was not in the Second Team Annual under Durham however Malcolm found his name under Nottingham.Hodgson went on to score  113 before been caught again by Shafique who looks a good keeper.

Ryan Gibson came in after lunch and scored a quick 79 runs in 58 balls with 14  four,s. A excellent innings which was closed with a great catch by Carr on the boundary edge diving to his right.Another good innings was by Wainman who scored his first second team fifty batting at number 9. Yorkshire were bowled out for 416 which seem enough to win the match.

I left at this time to go and watch Bolton Percy play Alwoodley in the Whixley evening league.The village is four miles east of Tadcaster and the cricket club has just had a extension to the clubhouse.

The club was established in 1957 on the site of a local farmers field.They have two sides and play in the York and District Senior Cricket League As seen from the photogragh it is set in a beautiful surroundings and look it,s best in the sunlight. The only bad part of the visit was that they had two break ins in the last week. The thieves tied to burn it down on Tuesday night.

When I arrived home at 9 PM on the live scores Durham had lost five wickets after I left so it will be a short day tomorrow. This was my 28 consequent  day of watching cricket and if the weather holds fine should increase in the next three days.