After trips in the car recently , I was pleased to walk to the match. Today was a fifty over match between
Yorkshire,mainly second teamers,and Sri Lanka A.
Sri Lanka won the toss and faced Coad and Wainman.the first wicket to fall was Udawatte who scored 16 including 2 six,s in 41 minutes. Then came the major stand of the match between Dhanushka Gunathilleke and Danish Chandimal of 101 runs before been broken by Jack Leaning bowling. It seems ages since I saw him bowl his off-spin.During the morning I was sat with Tony Hutton and John Winn so cricket talk wandered over many subjects including why Middlesex are called the panthers?.
Rashid bowled his leg spin to claim 4 for 57 and would have been less runs scored off him if he was forced to ball at the end of the innings. Sri Lanka scored 275 for 9 which was very good by Yorkshire to restrict them to this total with a inexperenced attack.
After lunch and England,s victory, I sat in the football stand with Andy from York. There was a poor crowd and the gateman reckon there was 140 people. Yorkshire member complain about not seeing cricket at Headingley and do not turn . Lees and Lyth put on a stand of 70 before Lyth was caught by the keeper off the spin of Rambuwella wandering down the wicket.We were joined by John Fuller, of Cricket Yorkshire website, who was taking action photographs of the second team players as he only had portrait photographs
The other major spinners were Chaturange de Siva ,who took three wickets, and Seekkuge Prasanna who took four wickets. Yorkshire top scorer was Lees with 54 .Yorkshire finished on a respectable total of 249. It was great to see spin bowling rather than medium pace bowling.
Let us hope the weather stays fine for Saturday.
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