Posted by Tony Hutton
The recently unveiled memorial (mentioned by Brian Sanderson last week) to the late Dan Woods, former captain of York cricket club, who also played for Leeds/Bradford University and Cheshire Minor Counties.
Wednesday 12th August was a very hot day at Clifton Park, York where the under 15s of Yorkshire took on their counterparts from Durham in a 45 overs per side contest. Durham batted and soon lost the wicket of skipper Ben McKinney, caught behind by Isaac Light, already a Harrogate first teamer, off the bowling of left arm seamer Leo Diffey. His opening partner Hamish Barrie hung around for the first hour, but had only scored eight runs from a total of 50-2 when he was caught off change bowler Hashim Wajid.
We then had a fifty partnership between Ross Whitfield, from Sacriston, and Henry Hopkins before the latter was smartly stumped by Light off the bowling of spinner Caleb Bradford. This brought Mitchell Killeen to the wicket and together with Whitfield put on a century partnership. Whitfield went to an impressive century before being caught off left arm spinner Tate Miller just before Killeen reached his fifty.
Whitfield, without the helmet, celebrates his century.
Durham finished their innings on 244-6 after Killeen was bowled for 65 and this seemed a challenging total for the home side. Nobody really stood out among the seven Yorkshire bowlers used and unfortunately the two opening bowlers were a bit too erratic with a good number of wides between them.
The players kit litters the boundary line as dressing rooms still not in use at York.
One of the features of this match was how tall many of these fifteen year olds are. However, there was one notable exception when the Durham wicket keeper appeared. Much smaller than everyone else on the field my enquiries discovered that Louis Anderson is still only thirteen years old, fourteen very soon, and plays for Sacriston as does century maker Whitfield.
Nice straight bat from Whitfield.
Yorkshire also lost an early wicket when Matthew Hood was out for six, but skipper Noah Kelly from Driffield, a left hander, soon settled down to play a very composed innings. The second wicket fell at 63, but after that Joe Barker joined his captain in a partnership of 178 which virtually settled the result.
Sadly no qualified umpires available and the duties were shared between the various coaches.
All the Durham bowlers (eight of them) suffered in the afternoon heat as did the batsmen in their helmets. Regular drinks breaks were the order of the day and although Kelly (81) and Barker (75) were out just before the end, Yorkshire coasted home with nine overs to spare and won by five wickets.
On Thursday night at Church Lane, Adel the home side went to the top of the Headingley Evening league with a last ball victory over previous leaders Rawdon, who were bowled out for 121 in the last over. Adel's reply, after a slow start, was built around opener Tom Harrison who saw them home with 64 not out. Adel have only one more game to play whereas the chasers in Rawdon and Horsforth Hall Park have two games to go including a game between the two which could decide matters.
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