COLWYN BAY (third day of four; Glamorgan won toss): Yorkshire have scored 158 for five wickets against Glamorgan
WHEN, in a month of monsoon conditions, cricket chooses to visit a club whose president is Dr A.C. Puddle the auguries are hardly good. Rarely have the palm trees employed by British seaside resorts to imitate exoticism looked more pallid and limp than in two washed-out days at Penrhyn Avenue.
The umpires prevailed upon the two sides, with Yorkshire the more reluctant, to get under way, 52 hours late, at 3pm. This ground is by tradition heavily biased to the bat but Yorkshire’s reticence proved prescient when, put in, they might have lost three wickets in the first hour.
This game, and the return at Leeds in the final fixture of the season, will probably determine which of these teams is promoted. Glamorgan began 17½ points ahead in third place and, with more rain forecast, they had the better chance of adding bonus points.
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The first was achieved in the 26th of 51 overs when Anthony McGrath, who had survived chances on one and 38, got into a tangle attempting to abort a hook at Simon Jones and gloved to slip for 46. He had come in when an edge saw Matthew Wood, out for five, give Mick Lewis, the Victoria medium pace bowler, a wicket with his tenth ball in the championship.
Phil Jaques followed legbefore for 21, and when McGrath fell, Joe Sayers, in his second championship match, was joined by Richard Pyrah, a 21-year-old all-rounder on his first-class debut. David Harrison had Sayers held at slip for 18 and removed Vic Craven, caught behind, for 10.