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Post by davemorton on Apr 10, 2024 11:55:46 GMT
I can't believe it - it's hissing down in Manchester - but play is under way on day 2 of 4 at Headingley. No play yesterday, unsurprisingly.
YORKSHIRE 2ND XI
JH Wharton, WA Luxton*, NM Kelly, HG Duke†, DM Bess, ML Revis, WJ Bennison, DJ Leech, MW Edwards, BM Cliff, A Wade, M Firbank
LANCASHIRE 2ND XI
H Singh, DK Fonseka, GID Lavelle*, GJ Bell†, TH Aspinwall, CJ Dickinson, JA Boyden, J Chapple, CM Barnard, HA Hussain, C Parkinson, DD Hayes
Yorkshire currently 115 for one, Wharton out for 18, Luxton and Revis in, and smacking it everywhere. Callum Parkinson has gone for 29 off 3.
Tomorrow I will attend. Yes, really!
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Post by karma on Apr 10, 2024 13:07:34 GMT
Tomorrow Dave Morton the weather forecast is good. I might just boil a couple of eggs , leave them in their shells (in clingfilm) and take them along in my pockets (pocket food) with other snacks as I don't think there'll be anything in the ground.
I was hoping for BPA but Headingley is a pretty good 2nd best for this 2nd 11's fixture. Oh for a full day's cricket 🏏
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Post by donnylad on Apr 10, 2024 14:32:24 GMT
JH Wharton, WA Luxton*, NM Kelly, HG Duke†, DM Bess, ML Revis, WJ Bennison, DJ Leech, MW Edwards, BM Cliff, A Wade, M Firbank
That is a very decent looking 2nd XI - all the bold font ones have recent 1st class experience.
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Post by newby on Apr 10, 2024 15:59:13 GMT
Don't be too early 11:15 start tomorrow.
No more play today after the initial 17.3 overs unfortunately. I'd be quite happy to see a few of those players in the first XI, not in place of Root and Brook obviously.
It might be the bowling that is more of interest in terms of rotating the players we have.
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Post by tbsteve on Apr 11, 2024 3:28:05 GMT
Good to see Bess back playing. When the squad was announced for the last 1XI game, speculation online was that he was being cautious due to the quad strain he picked up pre-season. If he's fit, I'd have him over Moriarty.
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Post by karma on Apr 11, 2024 10:14:08 GMT
Small group of disgruntled supporters wondering what's going on no play yet. I said I have in mind it's 11:15 start. Facilities include toilets and water fountain , lots of seats taped off .
Still it's a much better day . Scoreboard awitched on but only adverts .PA deafening silent. Have whole of NE Upper to myself. I told Mrs. Karma that the 72hr deoderant was no substitute for a shower.
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Post by karma on Apr 11, 2024 10:36:59 GMT
Scoreboard working. Same wicket as Leicestershire game. Wet under Howard stand.
145 -1 after 23
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Post by karma on Apr 11, 2024 14:03:29 GMT
Luxton out for a magnificent 188.
He clearly has the ability with a range of sweetly struck and powerful shots. I hope he can press on to make a first a team place more regular occurence.
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Post by newby on Apr 11, 2024 17:22:53 GMT
No extra benefits such as PA announcements with 2nd XI cricket. At least the scoreboard at Headingley has the names, for the 2nds at Scarborough it's just a number so lots of guesswork. Last season I don't think they even had scorecards unlike in previous years.
At least, if it's warm you can just enjoy the peace and perhaps nod off now and then. Sounds like a no cake day.
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Post by karma on Apr 11, 2024 18:15:52 GMT
Security came up to me mid-afternoon and told me I shouldn't be sat in NE Upper. I said I'd carefully read YCCC's OS and there were no restrictions on seating stated, where does it say I can't continue to sit here? He got on his radio and walked off chunering. Never saw him again
I mean I was trashing all the seats and leaving rubbish everywhere once he'd gone down the stairs! 👮♂️
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Post by davemorton on Apr 11, 2024 18:43:53 GMT
Enjoyable day, albeit batting dominated. Will Luxton really is superb, but I think we should bracket Lancashire's little left-arm spinner Charlie Barnard alongside him. He was going at 2 per over when all the others were at 5 or 7. Later, when we tried to attack him, he was rewarded with wickets.
So that was the great battle of the day, bat against ball, proper cricket.
Late in the day we had a bit more of the same, as two very good Lanky openers attacked Leach and Edwards. Edwards came through it, Leach didn't. Again, it was very watchable cricket.
Lots of photos, which will appear when they appear! I was in Sam Northeast lower, by the way, mid-off angle. One argument between a member and the steward who prevented her from sitting in the seat she had paid for, she said. Bag search - ridiculous! And ineffective, because it's only a token gesture anyway.
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Post by karma on Apr 11, 2024 19:15:41 GMT
I looked down there earlier Dave there was only one chap sitting there wearing a red jumper, I would have shared my boiled eggs with you. Maybe next game 🥚 🥚
I was also talking to a Lanky supporter (NE Upper nearly in line with wicket) . Poor communication with supporters isn't limited to Yorkshire, the Lancs website still has the game being played at BPA.
He was on his way to watch Div 1 cricket tomorrow at Trent Bridge, Nottingham v Worcester 🏏
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Post by davemorton on Apr 12, 2024 15:31:59 GMT
Bess has taken six for 53 today, as Yorkshire have won the bonus point battle, but obviously not the game (unless we can bowl them out again in a couple of hours). Lancs collapsed from 183 for one to 266 all out.
Before we get too carried away, this was a relatively mature Yorkshire team playing against a bunch of kids, but Dom and Mickey Edwards will both have benefited.
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Post by karma on Apr 12, 2024 15:41:12 GMT
The same game last year (at York) and which I enjoyed, seemed like Lancashire men against Yorkshire boys. 'You can only play the hand that is dealt you' applied to that game as much as this weeks.
I will own up to being biased in favour of Bess. I don't know what exactly was going on with him and Gibson last season but it didn't look good . 6 - 53 isn't a bad return from this all- rounder.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 12, 2024 17:09:05 GMT
I too have been a Bess fan since I first set eyes on the teenager at Taunton, the game which Yorks won by 2 runs (or was it 3?) when Karl Carver caught Jamie O...and he wouldn't walk! Bessy was the (very capable) number 11 who watched as his brain-dead partner tossed it away.
Heroics from lots of players that game, Sidebottom, Lyth (with the ball), and Ballance.
Anyone fancy a Great Yorkshire Matches thread? That would be in it.
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