The torch is getting brighter

posted by John Winn

An email from Tony Hutton last evening tipped me off that the Yorkshire Second XI fixtures are now on the county website along with those for the academy. Just go to fixtures and results on the drop down menu and select the appropriate team. Slightly less straightforward is the path to the university fixtures (Bucs), you will need to know which institution you are looking for, which sport, which gender (what we used to call s*x), but you will get there in the end. Leeds Met is now Leeds Beckett. Thanks for that Tony. A quick trawl reveals that Notts have also released their second XI fixtures but the other 16 counties are still working at the speed of the Chilcot report.

Now for the answers to the quiz posed on my last posting

Geoff Pullar's eleven opening partners at Lancashire were

Bob Barber, Alan Bolton, Alan Wharton, Brian Booth, Bob Bennett, David Green, Jack Dyson, Gerard Knox, Duncan Worsley, Barry Wood, Graham Atkinson.

Well done if you got all those at home.

Test yourselves a little further: which three played for England, which six played for other counties, who played for Manchester City and scored a goal in the 1956 cup final, who was born in Lofthouse, who went to Staffordshire and back, who played for Yorkshire before Lancashire, which three have died, and who played rugby for Sale and wrote his memoirs under the title 'A handful of confetti'?

Answers next time.