Tuesday was another lovely day and I had little hesitation in driving to Middlesbrough again for the first day of a SEC match between Durham and Glamorgan with the visitors having given Durham a bit of a drubbing in the 50 over game the day before. The ball was red, the sightscreens white and the sun had his hat on as Glamorgan batted first.
The teams showed a couple of changes from Monday with the most interesting being the appearance of Graham Onions in his first outing since early May. If there has been no reaction to three days' cricket expect to see him in the championship game at Headingley next week. . As on Monday Glamorgan got off to a good start with big scores for Lawlor, Walters and Knight. Onions would be pleased with only 30 runs from his 12 overs and the scalps of Glamorgan's two most experienced players, Goodwin and Walters who were both in the eleven that beat Middlesex in the T20 yesterday evening. Durham used eight bowlers, two of whom, Chase and McCarthy were unknowns to the pcws present.
Durham replied well on Wednesday with runs for Clark and Poynter and declared 16 behind Glamorgan's 348 but a run a ball century for Murray Goodwin on the third day set up a good finish with Durham falling 37 short. More runs for Clark this time with help from Rammy Singh. Four very good days cricket at Acklam Park and it is strange that Yorkshire seem to have let Durham annex this corner of the county.
Wednesday I relied on public transport to get me from York to Weetwood, which it did very nicely and had a reunion with a number of pcws I had not seen for a while, Malcolm, Tony Hutton, Jennifer, Pudsey Ian and JT. The game was a fifty over fixture between Yorkshire Academy and Scotland Development XI but attention was rather taken away from the cricket by the presence of some large vans in the car park carrying the bikes and other kit of four of the teams competing in the Tour de France. Yorkshire racked up a good score thanks to Barney and Ryan Gibson and when I left at five Scotland had lost seven wickets and seemed unlikely winners but neither county website nor twitter feed has given the result.
A South African Under 19 XI are touring in August playing 2 tests and 5 ODIs and the fixtures can be found on cricinfo. Alas and not for the first time pcws wanting to see these attractive visitors will have to go south of the Trent albeit only just, for they are playing at Trent Bridge in two of the ODIs.
They also play at Derby which is north of the Trent but not by much!
For me cycling* rather dominates the weekend but I will be out of lycra for Headingley on Monday, a match which I think if Durham lose they should steel themselves to pass on the championship pennant although to whom may remain unknown for some time.
*Stage two comes within a couple of miles of the Lower Ure Valley
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