Cold Day Roberts Park

 By Brian Sanderson

I had agreed to meet John Fuller at Saltaire who were playing

 Burley in the Airedale and Wharfedale first division.

I was worried if the match would start after the rain over

the last few days.However as we walked down to the

ground we saw the umpires coming out of the pavilion

which was good news in this truncated season.

Burley won the toss and decided to bowl on this

damp wicket .Saltaire were put into to bat and soon 

were losing wickets.It was good to see David Cooper

the Burley coach who  was sitting near the pavilion to 

try get away from a cold wind making it to seem

like November rather than August.It was great to see him 

again. 

Burley left arm bowler Harry Barrow was the main  wicket

taker with six for thirty four in twelve overs.The Saltaire

batsman just decided to attack the bowling on this difficult 

pitch so were bowled out for 74 runs in twenty three overs.

Burley were soon seven for two but Sam Fox batted through

to score 38 not out to enable Burley to win by seven wickets

in 19.4 overs.The teams had to go off for a few overs because

of the rain but they were soon back on.

It was great to come back home to but the fire on .Looking

forward to some sunshine tomorrow.