The rains came today with a vengeance all over the country and played havoc with a whole series of cup games in Yorkshire, as well as the T20 Blast quarter final between Somerset and Notts which will now be played tomorrow at Taunton, as will the Minor Counties T20 finals day at Wormsley.
The Bradford League's Priestley Cup final between Farsley and Woodlands was due to be replayed tomorrow but Farsley have since withdrawn from the competition as they cannot raise a full team tomorrow. The two delayed Black Sheep Champions Trophy semi-finals were decided on the toss of a coin, which now means that Hanging Heaton will play Pudsey St Lawrence in the final at Cleckheaton on Sunday 9th September.
There was also no play in the Yorkshire Leagues Rudgate Cup Final at Treeton, between Woodhouse Grange and Barnsley, which I understand will also be played on Sunday 9/9, and presumably not in the over 50s semi-final between Yorkshire and Essex at Streethouse, although no news yet of a re-arrangement. The other over 50s semi final between Lancashire and Gloucestershire has been put back to next Sunday (2/9) at Stretford.
However very surprisingly one game did beat the weather. The long delayed ECB national club knock out quarter final game between Richmondshire and Ormskirk did take place this morning on a ten over per side basis. Whether this was played in the rain is not yet clear, but a result was obtained. Remarkably Gary Pratt's Richmondshire totalled 158-2 in only ten overs. Matty McKiernan, now of Derbyshire, scored an amazing 100 not out with five fours and ten sixes in the ten overs. Some achievement that.
In reply Ormskirk could only make 92-5, so Richmondshire go through to a home semi-final with Northern CC of Crosby (Lancashire) next Sunday 2/9 with a 12 noon start. The other semi-final on the same day is between Stanmore of Middlesex and Roffey of Sussex. I believe the final of this competition is being played at the Bristol county ground on Sunday 23/9.
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