LIVE AT LEEDS
Wednesday 18th June 2008 Yorkshire v Lancashire Twenty20 Cup
07:30
It’s raining! I meet up with Andy, Gareth and Christian and am offered the first of many cups of tea! We sit and chat about this, that and the other for what seems an eternity. Two hours later it is still raining!
10:00
It’s still raining! Gareth and Christian set out the boundary rope for the game.
L-r: Gareth Milthorpe, Christian Dunkerley, Andy Fogarty 12:00
It’s brightening up a bit. Black sheets are placed over sight screens and surrounds to facilitate the ‘white’ ball.
13:30
Andy receives the pitch record sheet from the team manager and duly completes the form for the ECB.
11:00 09:30
Andy goes out to the middle to check that all is well with the covers.
It’s still raining. Christian paints the bails white - at least it’s something to do other than drink tea!
14:00
Players and team officials start arriving.
14:45
Umpires Neil Bainton and John Holder have arrived,
15:00
The umpires inspect the square and pitch and discuss the weather. It’s summer!
and it eventually stops raining. Andy and his team take off the covers to inspect pitch and square. The removal of covers is all about teamwork, especially with so much standing water lying about. Out comes the Blotter for its first outing of the day.
HEADINGLEY - A NEW PARTNERSHIP
HEADINGLEY Carnegie Stadium is the world-famous home of The Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Leeds Rhinos RLFC and Leeds Tykes RUFC. It has two separate grounds, with a two-sided stand housing common facilities. Last year the Stadium was saved from possible closure to international test matches through a ground-breaking deal between Leeds City Council, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds Metropolitan University, which saw it renamed Headingley Carnegie Stadium; the university’s sports faculty is known as the Carnegie School of Sport, Exercise and Physical Education. As one local resident commented, “Headingley without test
matches would be like roast beef without Yorkshire pudding.” The capacity of the rugby ground currently stands at 17,700 whilst the new Carnegie Stand is being built to replace the old Eastern Terrace. The ground is shared by the world’s first dual-code rugby partnership, Leeds Rugby Limited, which incorporates both the League-playing Rhinos and the Union-playing Tykes. Headingley cricket ground adjoins the
rugby stadium via a shared main stand. It has seen Test cricket since 1899 and has a capacity of 17,000. Headingley spectators have been lucky enough to witness some of the greatest moments in cricket. Local boy and demon
spinner, Hedley Verity, took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire - a world record that still stands today. Headingley also provided the stage for the most dramatic comeback in Test cricket in 1981, when England beat Australia by 18 runs. The bookies had England at 500-1 after being 227 runs behind and they were 135-7 in their second innings. Ian Botham with the bat and Bob Willis with the ball worked miracles and claimed victory for England in a match that has made its way into the annals of English history as part of the Botham’s Ashes series.
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