A SELECT BAND OF SUPPORTERS WATCH A INTERESTING DAY

By Brian Sanderson,

Arriving at the ground just after the start Yorkshire had lost a wicket of Hodd who was in four balls for 11 runs chasing the Lancashire total of  363.Whilst Callis and Hodgson were batting I was able to watch Yorkshire victory at Trent Bridge and winning the first division championship since 2001 on a television in the players lounge.

After the first team victory about forty people in the crowd could settle down to watch Yorkshire try to win the match and bat better than they did in the first innings.The two batters manged to stay together till just after lunchbwhen Callis decided to take a big swing at the leg break bowling of Mc Kiernan and be stumped for 72.At this stage the score was 163 after forty overs which was on course to win the match.

However Tattersall, Rhodes, Gibson And Shaw were out taking twenty seven overs for 117 runs and losing four wickets. This left the score 280 for 6 , needing 83 to win the match twenty eight overs.It depended on Dan Hodgson to stay till the end but he was out after he had scored a excellent 124.

He was out caught by the wicket keeper of the leg spin of Robert Jones who had come on to bowl at 2.45 on the third day for the first time. In the first two overs he went for twenty runs but finished up with 3-for 43 in twelve overs.

Wainman and Warner put on a stand of fifty two  before Wainman was caught of Reece who had only bowled four overs till then.Yorkshire finished up by losing by 11 runs which was a good effort and was helped again by  43 extras which was a total of 83 in the two Yorkshire innings.

One of the umpires was Peter Willey who is retiring at the end of the season and I would wish him all the best for his future.
Also I would like to congratulate Yorkshire first on winning the championship. I feel they have been the best team this year  but I may be biased as I am Yorkshire supporter.

Going to pop into Weetwood tomorrow morning to see the Yorkshire Academy recieve the Yorkshire ECB League trophy before heading off to North Yorkshire.