By Brian Sanderson,
Arriving at Shaw Lane Barnsley with the weather forecast sunny ,I looked forward to watch cricket in warmth. The match being Yorkshire Seconds against Unicorns team in a fifty Trophy match.When I arrived the crowd was sparse but I had chance to talk to people. On obtaining the scorecard ,I found that Unicorn team names were missing.which makes in difficult to follow the match.
Yorkshire bowled first on a hard wicket but the weather decided to get cold and there were rain showers which caused me to watch from the car using the windscreen wipers to see what was happening on the pitch.
The covers did come on once but the umpires did well to keep the match playing. As I did not know the batsman name as they were no names on the back of their shirts nor on the scorecard. There was three batsman score over 40 runs against a steady Yorkshire attack. one new Yorkshire bowler was Alexander MacQueen who bowls off-breaks and has played for Leeds and Bradford University and Surrey seconds, photograph above. The Unicorns scored 190 for 8 in the fifty overs and the feeling was that it was thirty runs short of par.
During the break I had a chance to photograph the unknown players of the Unicorn Side.Yorkshire were soon losing wickets and when the spinners came on to bowl all batsmen struggled apart from Jack Leaning. He went on to score over 40 before he was stumped. This was the last chance for Yorkshire to win and lost by 30 runs. The last wicket was a run out which summed up Yorkshire innings.
When I arrived home I went to total cricket scorer website to find the Unicorns team but the match was not on the site.
So I will have to wait to see the names when it may appear on the Yorkshire website or on Cricket Archives.
With these problems it spoils the few spectators pleasure of watching the match.People wander why spectators do not go.
Going to Weetwood tomorrow to see Leeds University and Manchester University. There will be no scorecards at this match as well.
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