400 RUNS IN OCTOBER

By Brian Sanderson,

Today the sun was shining giving people a chance to watch another match at Arthington  Cricket festival.To day match was against Cambridge Methodist or Steve Bindman X1. On Friday they were down to six cricketers but because of Steve,s effort eleven players turn out.

Arthington batted first with Geoff Barker and Joe Nash with threat of rain in the air.They were both batting well when the rain came  however there was only a five minute break.There were about twenty spectators enjoying the cricket and cricket talk.Joe Nash was the first of Mel Woods wicket when the score was 142.

The above photograph is of Joe Nash and Geoff Barker at drinks break.Mel Wood is the brother of   Barry ex Yorkshire, Lancashire and England.Mel plays for Ossett and Yorkshire over 60,s.Today he bowled his spin bowling which collected six wickets for forty runs.Also it slowed the Arthington scoring rate and after forty overs they achieved 204 .

This is photograph of Mel coming off the field after he batted in the dark.At teatime the Cambridge Meths team which had just been brought together yesterday with a big task to win the match.They started to attack the opening bowling including Denis Nash, father of the opening batsman and aged seventy eight. A number of catches were put down which enabled Cambridge Meths to keep up with the run rate. It was left up to a batsman called Abdul to score 61 to help them win the match. By time the church clock had struck six they had Cambridge won the match with eight wickets down and overs to spare. Steve Bindman was batted up to win the match but was not required.

The photograph at the start of the blog is the washing line for Mrs Nash tea towels. One more match tomorrow against St. Georges and let us hope the sun will shine.

What could be better than this sight in October with the sunshining.