HARROGATE HOME OF WOMENS CRICKET

By Brian Sanderson,

On a quite cricket Friday, I decided to go to Harrogate to see Yorkshire Girls U17  against Cheshire U 17.

The weather was excellent with a cooling breeze and a good collection of PCW. to enjoy the company and sunshine.Yorkshire had lost their last match to Lancashire by ten wickets so in the huddle they must have encouraged each of them to win this match. Whilst  yesterday Cheshire had beaten Durham  by forty runs.

After the minute silence for the deaths in Tunisia, Yorkshire batted first and established a good opening stand.with Yvonne Graves and Hannah Poulter putting on 63 runs.The Cheshire bowling was very gentle and after 29 overs Yorkshire were 131 for 3. The top scorer was Teresa Graves, the twin of Yvonne, who scored 54 before being stumped  having a swing at a ball and missing it.

The number four bat  was Maddie Walsh , who had played for Yorkshire first team at Headingley a few weeks ago.She was born in Golcar so she had plenty of supporters but today she only scored 10. Yorkshire achieved  235 for 8 after 45 overs.

After the break Cheshire main batter was Ellie Mason who had scored 111 not out yesterday. However today she was caught by the wicket keeper of Rebecca Newark for a low score.Soon the Cheshire innings collapsed to 63 all out.  At one stage Maddie Wilson had taken two wickets in two balls but had to come off as she had bowled her maximum overs.

Good victory for the girls after the disappointment of losing to Lancashire.

JULY FIXTURES

By Brian Sanderson


3 JULY     YORKSHIRE WOMEN U 17   V  CHESHIRE   HARROGATE  12.00

                  HIGH FARNDALE  V  SLINGSBY                                            6.30

5 JULY    CHESHIRE  V  DORSET Grappenhall 11:00

              CUMBERLAND  V   LINCOLNSHIRE     SEDBERGH                11.00

                  3 DAYS   A MUST FIXTURE SUBJECT TO THE WEATHER

Durham Women v Netherlands Durham City 10:30

Yorks U15 B v North Yorks  Bishop Monkton (near Ripon)

6 JULY   DERBYSHIRE   V  GLAMORGAN   CHESTERFIELD   4 DAYS

              YORKSHIRE SECONDS  V   LANCASHIRE SECONDS   HEADINGLEY

                      3 DAYS

          NOTTS II    V  WORCESTERSHIRE   NOTTS SPORT CLUB   3 DAYS

            LANCASHIRE  U 19   V NEW SOUTH WALES COMBINED HIGH SCHOOLS     TODMORDEN 2 DAYS (possibly 2 x 1 day fixtures)


             Yorkshire Senior Schools v Lincolnshire Academy St Peter's York

7 JULY

SPOUTHOUSE   V  HIGH FARNDALE

KETTLEWELL    V   LINTON

YORKSHURE  U 17   V  CHESHIRE   WEETWOOD (2 Days)

Durham Under 17 v Lancs Norton 11:00

Durham Women U17 v Lancs  Darlington RA (Brinkburn Road, Darlington)

YSSC v Northumberland Dev XI St Peter's 11:00 It is understood that Northumberland have withdrawn from this fixture. Should we learn of fresh opponents we will of course update the blog.


8 JULY  YORKSHIRE OVER 50   V DERBYSHIRE   ACOMB    1.30,

Yorks Under 14 A v Staffs Ossett

Durham over 50s v Cheshire Darlington 13:30

YSSC V New South Wales CHS St Peter's 11:00

9 JULY  YORKSHIRE SECONDS  V  LANCASHIRE   PUDSEY  CONGS   11.00 (SET)

                NOTTINGHAM   V WORCESTER  NOTTS SPORT CLUB      11.00

Durham U17 v Lancashire Seaton Carew

YSSC v MCC St Peter's 11:00

10 JULY Durham Women U15 v Cumbria Bill Quay 11:00

YSSCA v Durham Academy St Peter's 11:00

12 JULY Durham v Warwickshire (LVCC)

13 JULY Durham Women U17 v Yorkshire Mainsforth CC

14 JULY    

LANCS  U 17   V  YORKSHIRE   U 17   2 DAYS

LANCS  U 19  V CHESHIRE  HEYWOOD 2 DAYS

Yorks U14 B v North Yorks Bedale
                       

17 JULY    SLINGSBY     V GILLMOOR.


19 JULY   YORKSHIRE GENTLEMEN   V PENGUINS              11.30
                   Yorkshire v Worcestershire (LVCC) Scarborough

              GLAMORGAN  V  LANCASHIRE   COLWYN BAY

20 JULY   YORKSHIRE SECONDS  V  WARWICKSHIRE       YORK   11.00 (SET)


                HIGH FARNDALE    V  GILLNMOOR                   6.30

21 JULY    YORKSHIRE  V  WARWICKSHIRE    HARROGATE  (SET)

                    YORKSHIRE  U 17  V   DURHAM    WEETWOOD  2 DAYS

   SLINGSBY  V  SPOUT HOUSE                                      6.30

     KETTLEWELL V  GRASSINGTON

23 JULY Lancashire II v Durham II Middlewich (SET)

27 JULY   DERBYSHIRE SECONDS  V   NORTHANTS

               YORKSHIRE GENTLEMEN   V WILTSHIRE QUERIES  Escrick 11:30


28 JULY  YORKSHIRE ACADEMY   V SCOTLAND  WEETWOOD

                  Durham U17 v Derbyshire U17 Hartlepool 11:00 (2 days)

    LANCASHIRE  U 19   V  DURHAM  URMSTON

  LITTONDALE   V  KETTLEWELL

The Saints v Wiltshire Queries Studley Royal 11:30

  29 JULY   YORKSHIRE ACADEMY   V  SCOTLAND    WEETWOOD 2 DAYS

      LEICESTERSHIRE II   V  LANCASHIRE II     Ashby Hastings   (SEC)

  ILKLEY  V  WILTSHIRE QUERIES     2.00

York Senior league U21 v MCC Scarborough

30 JULY   ENGLAND  U 19  V  UNICORNS   LOUGHBOROUGH

                      DERBYSHIRE II  V  NORTHANTS II (SET)

                   HAWKS   V   WILTSHIRE QUERIES  OTLEY  1.00

31 JULY Yorks Women U17 v Durham     Undercliffe 12:00

A reminder to our more intrepid readers (or those that live in Scotland and Ireland) that the ICC World T20 Qualifier begins on Monday with warm up matches in Belfast, Bready (County Tyrone),
and Edinburgh. The tournament proper begins on July 9th and the full programme is available at icc-cricket.com.




                      

     

THUNDER AND TRAFFIC JAM

By Brian Sanderson

Arriving at Trent Bridge this morning  via a new route through the City, we settled down to watch Nottingham try and bat the day out.

We sat in the stand to the stand to the right of the pavilion and had the above notice to look at.Nottingham were  lending by 72 runs .

James Taylor and Rikki Wessels  added 105 for the fourth wicket before the latter  was brilliantly caught by Joe Clark at deep point, for 55.

Then Taylor, batting with a runner due to hamstring injury, was run out when Hales , his runner, did not make his ground going for a third run at 201 for 5. Taylor not a happy camper.

during lunch time Luke Wood was present with a prize for Nottingham player for June. Also during lunch time there was a clap of thunder and some rain which delayed the start by fifteen minutes.We heard from the Umpire they could not start again until 40 minutes after the last clap of thunder. Another new law to me.

After lunch Samit Patel was  given out lbw to Ajmal Saeed and at that point you thought Worcester would get some more wickets.However they took the new ball and Read, who passed his 50 off 82 balls, played a lending role with Hutton chipping in nicely with 34.

Hutton became Jack Shanrty,s  second wicket of the innings at 327 for 7. At this stage we left Trent Bridge and three hours later we arrived at Bardsey as the A1  had a huge traffic jam in temperature up to 38 F.

Pleased to get home and find Yorkshire have won. The Nottingham must be slight favourites as Worcestershire require 311.

A hole too deep even for Durham

posted by John Winn

As I watched Rashid bowl the last over to Muchall at The Riverside on Tuesday evening I decided that should a wicket fall then I would not make the journey north today. A loud appeal for lbw was turned down by umpire Baldwin and so this morning saw me arrive bright and early in Chester le Street for despite warnings of buckled rails and speed limits Virgin East Coast, Go North East and my feet combined seamlessly  to get me to The Riverside for the third day running.

There was just the faintest hope that Durham, who have won six games this season often from seemingly impossible positions, might rack up their first draw of the season. 'Teatime at least' seemed to be the mantra and with Stoneman having batted so well yesterday for his second hundred of the season and Muchall having played some good knocks since his surprising recall to the side a month ago there was modest optimism among 'my very knowledgeable friends'. Further hope was on offer from a Durham member who told her husband that they must leave at three o'clock if they were to avoid driving home in a thunderstorm.

There were no great alarms for Durham until the introduction of Patterson who with his first ball produced a 'bail trimmer' to remove Muchall and Stoneman and Pringle lasted another nine overs until the former was on the receiving end of a long thought over lbw decision and 31 balls later it was all over. Only Pringle could be chastised, caught at long leg when trying to bat out the day is never likely to be excused but it was no more foolish a shot than the one played by Borthwick just before tea yesterday. Hastings, Harrison and Rushworth, all of whom have made good contributions with the bat before today, were swept aside and before 12:30 we were on our way. One of us wishing perhaps that the umpire had raised his finger at 6:10 yesterday evening.

This comprehensive defeat for the home team, their first at The Riverside for almost a year sees them replaced by Yorkshire at the top of the championship.  That defeat  last July was to Warwickshire where Yorkshire go next week and then The Bears visit County Durham on Sunday week. An interesting fortnight ahead.

Village Cup

posted by John Winn

The draw for the last 16 of the village cup is as follows

Holmesfield v Bronwydd

Astwood  Bank v Pelsall

Hawk Green v Falkland

Langleybury v Foxton

Sibton Park v Rottingdean

Wraysbury v Roche Old Boys

Goatacre v Marshfield

Lindal Moor or Egerton v Woodhouse Grange

Matches to be played Sunday 12th  (the game between Lindal Moor and Egerton will be played on Sunday 5th July)

Bits and Pieces

Posted by Tony Hutton

The last two weeks have been quite eventful, both on a cricket watching level and for me personally. It is hard for me to know where to start, but I suppose it must be at Scarborough on 16th June where Yorkshire second XI fielded a star studded side including Lyth, Lees and Maxwell, the Australian. Unfortunately they all failed with the bat in the first innings and Maxwell got another duck. It was left to the two youngsters, Will Rhodes with 124 not out and Carl Carver with 53 not out to rescue the side.

The next day I was back at Weetwood, watching the all conquering Leeds/Bradford University side fall at the last fence in the BUCS 50 over competition semi-final against Loughborough. With their high scoring talisman, Billy Root, having a rare failure with only six runs, a total of 196-5 for the home side did not seem enough.

So it proved with Loughborough winning by 3 wickets with plenty of overs to spare and going on to win the final of this competition at Kibworth the following week.

Then it was back to Scarborough for the last day of the second XI match, this time the big names came good and although Alex Lees did not look quite back to his best he made 78 not out. Maxwell played as only he can racing to 97 off only 90 balls and really giving his wicket away with two wild swings at the end as Yorkshire beat Derbyshire seconds by eight wickets.

Saturday 20th June was a close to home day with the Academy narrowly losing to Appleby Frodingham after slow left armer Logan had taken 5-43 in the visitors total of 184 all out. With 60 overs in which to get the runs the Academy finished just 14 short after Carver continued his good batting with top score of 38.

On the same day Adel had a good home win over Illingworth. Opening bat Chris Rowley scored 106 for Adel and Leeds Becket university coach Andy Laws 75.  Chasing 219 Illingworth were in the hunt but a fine spell of 6-45 by captain Nick Smith earned a 44 run victory. Nice to see Illingworth Chairman Andrew Smith again - I always remember his excellent book on the history of Illingworth cricket club.

While this game was going on an incredible Dales Council match was taking place on the adjoining second ground at Adel. Visitors Drighlington made 316-6 in their 45 overs, their number four, Bhaven Mistry, making 150 not out. Adel's third eleven were not downhearted and made another remarkable total of 275-7 after being 76-6 at one stage. Opener Steve Tilley played the anchor role with 90 not out, but star of the show was number eight Malik Noon who made 120.

Also managed a couple of school games with MCC, firstly at Woodhouse Grove school always a pleasant place to visit, with the MCC captain Paul Hutchinson a little too conservative in his declaration at 266-7, leaving the school only 45 overs in which they scored a creditable 181-8. The following day, en route back from a reunion in Newcastle, managed to see almost the last hour of St Peter's York v MCC and the school winning an exciting match with the last pair together.

Woodhouse Grove v MCC

Throw in Yorkshire's innings victory over Notts at Headingley, Leeds Bradford's win at Lord's thanks to Billy Root, two women's county games both won by Yorkshire and finally the highest ever seventh wicket partnership in English county cricket by Bairstow and Bresnan at Durham - not a bad couple of weeks!

Yorkshire on top but day ends up the spout

Posted by Tony Hutton

Yesterday off to Riverside again after a day of batting records described by Brian Sanderson. It is hard to picture how easy the record stand between Bairstow and Bresnan appeared and by the end of the innings the Durham side looked thoroughly dejected. Full marks to the two Yorkshiremen and Bairstow must be an England candidate now whether he keeps wicket or not. 

Bairstow takes the applause as Yorkshire declare

Yesterday's proceedings started more quietly with a good crowd including many Yorkshire folk and many others like myself with a foot in both camps. So lots of chat in the crowd as I joined John Winn and his very knowledgeable friends yet again. Durham were 140-5 overnight and up against it, but Borthwick and Pringle put on a good partnership of 88 before Borthwick was caught behind off Bresnan. The bowler did it again next ball with a lifter to Hastings, who has played many valuable innings this season, and again Bairstow took the catch. Harrison survived the hat-trick but not for long.

Brooks' return to the attack brought two wickets in an over, first knocking out two stumps to bowl Harrison and then having Rushworth caught behind. Rashid finished the innings having Onions lbw and the impressive Pringle finished with a career best of 69 not out, showing promise for the future. So Durham 208 all out were 349 behind and Gale asked them to follow on, looking for an innings victory.

It won't come easily though as Durham have fought back from losing positions many times and Stoneman and Jennings went carefully about their business to put on a most valuable century opening partnership. On the hottest day of the season some of the bowlers looked rather worse for wear but Rashid stuck to his task to dismiss Jennings just before tea, shortly followed by Borthwick yet another caught behind victim for Bairstow off the persevering Patterson. Stoneman carried on to his century and looks a very solid player, who often gets runs against Yorkshire. Collingwood's dismissal just before I left was a serious blow to Durham and Yorkshire will be favourites to win today.

John Winn returns from his pitch inspection

My cunning plan for the rest of the day was to take a rather devious way home by way of Bilsdale just south of Stokesley on the road to Hemsley. Here an evening game was due to be played between the famous Spout House team, immortalised by Mike Amos of the Northern Echo, and Gillamoor. These games are always subject to late change, when weather conditions encourage the farming community to keep on working until late at night. My helpful informant, Ron Deaton, however had checked with the league secretary the night before and the game was on.

However on my arrival soon after 6 p.m. only one car in the car park next to the thatched cottage which is the old Sun Inn. The landlord said the game should start at 6.30 but no one had appeared. A couple of phone calls later the bad news came - the game had been postponed as full teams could not be raised. So I enjoyed the scenery of Bilsdale, resplendent in the evening sunlight, and the ride home via Rievaulx Abbey and Sutton Bank. No doubt this story will be continued at a later date.