Saturday brought the first games in the new format of the Yorkshire Premier League North with just ten teams taking part, in the absence of both Scarborough and the Yorkshire Academy. Now reduced to 40 overs a side, instead of the normal 50 overs, and the start times put back to 1 p.m. from the original 12 noon. However at Clifton Park, York where the home side were entertaining Sheriff Hutton Bridge, they had decided to revert to 12 noon, which was just as well on a day punctuated with drizzling rain which in fact delayed the start by about half an hour. With the endless sanitising breaks after every six overs, the match went on well into the late evening, but did produce the only full overs game in the league.
Play gets underway at Clifton Park.
After a minute's silence marked with both times lining up in the centre in respect of Dan Woods, the former York captain, the home side were put into bat and lost prolific opener Duncan Snell early on. His partner Guy Darwin pulled things together with an innings of 59, despite losing Harry Adair, a Durham second team player for only 7. Darwin was given good support by Nick James with 24 and later by Alex Lilley, on debut. Lilley's excellent running between the wickets kept the innings going almost to the end with a fine knock of 52 from only 48 balls.
The drizzle did not attract many clients to the York beer garden.
York reached a reasonable total 195-9, with the bowling honours for Sheriff Hutton Bridge going to Freddie Collins with 4-34 and Matthew Bird with 3-43. The Bridge were missing two county second teamers who have gone elsewhere in Ed Barnes and Karl Carver, as well as Matthew Fisher, still very much part of the Yorkshire squad, who was relegated to the role of spectator and dog walker.
Not much social distancing here!
The Bridge lost both openers with the total on 26, but skipper Adam Fisher and Tommy Hudson then put on a stand of 99 for the third wicket to swing the game back their way. After Fisher went for 46, Hudson survived a middle order collapse, which saw them reduced to 143-6, and went on to score 90 before being dismissed with only seven more runs required. Wicket keeper Toby Latham saw the Bridge home with 26 not out and only three balls remaining.
Clifton Alliance
The game next door at Clifton Alliance got off to a much later start presumably due to the lack of the same amount of covers available to their more wealthy neighbours. The game with Dunnington was reduced to 24 overs per side with Alliance reaching their target of 149 with only one ball to spare.
The game between Castleford and Harrogate was abandoned due to rain and elsewhere in reduced overs matches Acomb beat Driffield and Stamford Bridge beat Woodhouse Grange.
Dunnington batting at Clifton Alliance.
Stamford Bridge made the highest score of the day with 206-4 from 29 overs, Dominic Rhodes scoring 80 not out and Ben Pearson 61. In reply Woodhouse Grange only managed 120-5 in 21 overs and were thirty short of their target.
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