For the first time this season my cricket watching took me across the River Ure to a ground from which I have reported quite often in recent years, namely that of Sessay CC.
Sessay were relegated from Yorkshire Premier North last season and are now in Division One North of the reorganised York and District League. Saturday's opponents, Thirsk CC were promoted in remarkable circumstances for when needing to take a wicket with the last ball of the season they were successful and thus pipped Ripon to promotion. There are little more than five miles between these two communities, a local derby indeed.
When I arrived on a cold and at times showery afternoon play was underway and Sessay who had been invited to bat had lost an early wicket but from that point carnage ensued, carnage in the form of a second wicket partnership between Matt Till and Joe Watson which added little short of two hundred with no bowler able to stem the flow of boundaries. Till was first to go for 107 leaving Watson to go on to make his century as the runs, aided by 40 in wides, mounted up to reach 365 for 6. A demoralising total off 40 overs.
Thirsk needed a good start but got quite the opposite losing two wickets with only four on the board, one of those a run out. From 16 for 4 something of a recovery was mounted by Mark Cook and Dan Magee who brought up the fifty but this was as good as it got and Thirsk were all out for 94, a deficit of 271 runs. This crushing win took Sessay to the top of the table with their run rate. keeping them clear of Knaresborough, Easingwold and Malton with all four teams on 16 points. Life is proving hard for Thirsk in this elevated company and their one point saves from bottom place which is held by Pannal. The latter entertain, if that is the right word, Sessay this Saturday. Gulp.
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