HARROGATE IN THE SUN

By Brian Sanderson,

After two trips to Scarborough I had a chance to sleep till 9.AM this morning as I was taking the short trip to Harrogate were Yorkshire Seconds were playing a three day match against Durham.Spoke to the groundsman who was hoping for good weather for the next five days as there was a match every day.

Durham won the toss and decided to bat .Hoping to improve on yesterday defeat by Yorkshire.Yorkshire had all their  England under 19 players turning out. Rhodes, Tattersall. Shaw, Fisher and Carver before they start playing the Test Matches next week.Yorkshire opening bowlers were Fisher and Wainman and found it hard work.By lunchtime Durham had lost two wickets ,both to Shaw . He looked the best bowler all day on a slow wicket. One of Durham,s opening batsman was Graham Clark, the brother of Jordan who plays for Lancashire. Today he was Durham second highest scorer with 57 showing some excellent cover drives.

After lunch , the crowd was  good some sitting in the sun. The crowd included Ron Deaton, Bob Procter and Paul Dyson so there was a lot of cricket stories told during the afternoon.By teatime Durham had lost eight wickets for 208.The best Durham batting was done by Ryan Buckley from Darlington who shown some excellent strokes before been left not out for 60 with Durham scoring 224.Shaw finishing with 5 for 43.
During the afternoon Coad decided to slide into some gravel causing him to cut his hand.His comment was " a stupid thing to do " which was true.

The photograph is of Ryan Buckley coming off after the end of the innings. The photograph at the start of the blog is  Yorkshire Hudd waiting to come out to bat. but he did not fair well as he only scored 17.Yorkshire finished on 67 for 2 with prospects of reaching 350 tomorrow.

I will see tomorrow in the shade.