On Sunday I went to one of my favourite grounds, School Lane, the home of Spofforth CC who were entertaining Birstwith in the semi final of the Atkinson Swires Trophy, the senior ko competition for clubs in the Nidderdale League. Birstwith came flushed from being the first team to topple Ouseburn this season in Saturday's high scoring match. The good size crowd at School Lane yesterday saw another run fest with Spofforth coming out on top by 18 runs.
Spofforth CC
The home team batted first and a bizarre scorecard shows two century makers, Nick Robinson and Andrew Bottega, nobody else in double figures except for extras 40, 29 of which were wides. 309/9 looked a good score, assisted by some poor ground fielding off set by some very good catches in the deep. Birstwith certainly gave it a go, feasting on some short stuff from young opening bowler M Bird, and there were good scores for the Riley brothers but wickets fell at regular intervals to see them all out in the 40th and last over. 601 runs, not a bad afternoon.
The other semi final was won by Darley who saw off Helperby by a large margin. Darley and Spofforth meet in the final at Ouseburn CC on September 4th.
In the National Club Championship there were wins for Ormskirk, Weybridge and Swardeston. South North and Chester Boughton Hall will play their tie next Sunday at Gosforth.
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