THIRD TIME LUCKY AT YORK

By Brian Sanderson,

I had visited York on two other occasions to see them play Chesterfield in the Royal London ECB National Club Championship. Today the weather was overcast to start with and there was talk of Duckworth Lewis but it was not needed as the sun came out.

Both sides are no longer able to call on the services of players who starred for them in earlier rounds of this years competition,Ben Slater of Chesterfield  and York,s Jack Leaning,,are ruled out of the tie having both  since  made first-class county a ppearences. York won the toss and decided to bat on a used pitch.One of the openers was Dan Woods who is pictured at the start of the blog eating a sandwich after been out for 42.

Then Lambert and L.Mc Kendry put on a stand of   96 in 15 overs against so poor bowling.Then the other
Mc Kendry came in to bat  adding another 149  in 19 overs. L. Mc Kendry scoring 105 in 99 balls and 11 4,s. York finishing on massive score of 310 in the forty-five overs.

It would require two excellent innings from Chesterfield to give them a chance,At tea time I wandered across to one of my favorites grounds Clifford Alliance were their third team were playing Hirst Courtney in the York Vale League. The home side were batting and also scoring at will. On the side of the boundary were a number of tents which I assume made Clifton some money from rent.

Wandering back to see the Chesterfield innings waiting to see how they would cope with the total.Richmond bowled the first over for York which give Chesterfield 11 runs of the first over . Not a good start.In the space of 18 overs they had lost  five wickets for 96 so the writting was on the wall. After 34 overs Chesterfield  were all out for 152 with the extras second highest scorer. Pringle and Woods taking 7 wickets.

York will now play away next Sunday at Chorley in the quarter finals of the compertition. Good luck York.