Yet another clash of fixtures on Monday 16th September with Yorkshire taking on Kent at Headingley in the county championship and Yorkshire second eleven playing Durham seconds in a three day friendly at North Marine Road, Scarborough. Never in doubt where we would go for the first two days, as members of both counties, Scarborough was first choice to see a crop of promising youngsters in both sides, who will hopefully be the future of county cricket rather than the current rash of overseas mercenaries littering the first class game.
It was slow going on the first morning as Yorkshire's batsmen, mainly from the Academy side, adjusted their game to play long innings. On a greenish wicket Wharton and Bean played cautiously before lunch, both getting into the twenties but no further. The innings of the day came from Academy captain, Tom Loten, with 64 in just over two hours, which was the top score of the innings. Ben Birkhead chipped in with a useful 42 at the end before being last man out following a tenth wicket partnership of 45 with Josh Sullivan. Yorkshire all out for 222.
Scarborough in the sunshine for two days was a delight and with an attendance of no more than fifty people it was a pleasure to enjoy the pavilion facilities with the splendid view from the balcony and time to peruse all the many photographs from the past on show inside the pavilion. In addition a brisk wind made the shelter of the pavilion the best vantage point by far.
Durham's best bowler was Jonathan Bushnell, a product of Durham school, who showed that he can bowl at a brisk medium pace as well as bat. His figures were 15-3-34-3. There were also wickets for Weighell, Potts, Hanley and Whitehead. When Durham batted there was an early collapse to 53-5 but the experience of Weighell and Poynter improved things before Potts, coming in at number eight made top score of 69 not out, with Poynter having made 53. Durham somewhat surprisingly then declared behind on 206-7.
The Academy quick bowler Dominic Leech had an economical spell of 2-21 from ten overs and it was good to see the leg spinner Josh Sullivan get the valuable wicket of Poynter. When Yorkshire batted again Wharton was out early on but Bean played a good innings of 40 to extend Yorkshire's lead. Yorkshire progressed to 126-5 by the close of day two, a lead of 142, with the prospect of a declaration the next morning to set Durham a target.
After we had departed en route for Headingley's last two days, Jordan Thompson's 76 and Ed Barnes' 34 not out set the scene for a declaration on 262-7 leaving Durham to chase 279 for victory. This they achieved by four wickets in 54.4 overs thanks mainly to Sol Bell with 109 and Bushnell with 69.
It may have only been an end of season friendly but several good performances on both sides gives one hope for the future.
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