
The club had intended to carry out the work of around £ 100,000 before this season after identifying problems with a layer of straw that can cause a build-up of water after heavy rains. But it was suspended due to difficulties caused by the pandemic and will now be completed by the end of the summer.
Yorkshire has long experienced problems at the end of the Emerald Stand, leading to the total abandonment of a county championship match in 2018. The problems resurfaced yesterday when, despite the glorious sunshine and the fact that they were thrown 23.2 overs after the game started at 12pm, Referees Ian Gould and Nigel Llong were forced to stop after the water began to rise to the surface after heavy rains the day before.
The players were removed from the field at 2.35 p.m. M., almost immediately after a 20 minute delay, while Yorkshire Pace Bowler Dominic Leech was treated for an injury to his left leg after he slipped and slipped on the concrete base of the West Stand while avoided a hit. Perimeter.
Leech lost his balance when his momentum pushed him over the edge and he had to be removed on a stretcher after being treated by medical personnel.
Andrew Gale, the Yorkshire first team coach, said: “They have taken Dom to the hospital. He had pain on the outside of his left knee. If it was the slip that caused it and is something functional, or if it was because he hit his knee on the concrete, I don’t know. You have to feel for the boy; It is the first game he has played in the first team this year ”.
Gale continued: “He’s a pretty tough guy, he’s Dom, he’s from Middlesbrough. He had a lot of pain. Hopefully it’s okay. Got his second team cap in the morning. His girlfriend and his dad are here. It’s sad to see it. “
Although the 20-year-old Leech was injured in front of the West Stand, after Luke Wells threw a full throw of the Dom Bess spinner over the middle of the wicket, it was the bowler’s run at the end of the Emerald Stand that caused the worry.
After an early tea was called for when the referees took the players out, just 45 minutes after lunch had finished, the referees reappeared to inspect that area, a process they repeated about 55 minutes after the tea ended. in which a restless crowd greeted their companions. arrival with shouts of “you don’t know what you’re doing.” It was another 35 minutes before the game was finally abandoned, two hours, ten minutes after the last ball was thrown.
Neither Gale nor his Lancashire counterpart Glen Chapple had anything but sympathy for the referees and also for the spectators. “I trust Gunner (Gould) and Longy (Llong) to make the right decision because they are two very experienced referees,” Gale said. “If he’s not in shape, he’s not in shape, and they didn’t want a situation where Jimmy Anderson, let’s say, was running around and rolling his ankle or something.
“There’s no question – we’ve seen it before – that end of the field (the end of the Emerald Stand), there is something wrong with it, and the umpires basically felt that the day was progressing and there was more traffic on that side of the pitch, it was going up. Water.
“You think you’ve seen everything in cricket and then this happens, and I feel sorry for the members because they’ve been starving for cricket for so long, the sun is out and it’s a Roses game.”
Chapple agreed: “The referees are doing their job and they are as disappointed as anyone. Yesterday (Monday) it rained a lot and we arrived this morning and the ground was still wet. Maybe the heat brought in some more humidity and it went from being playable only to non-playable. It was disappointing for everyone. “
The game started at noon after a delay of one hour. Lancashire resumed with 273-2 of 96 overs and advanced to 342-2 by the 110 cutoff mark on bonus points, giving them three batting points and Yorkshire free of bowling points – the first time Yorkshire has suffered that fate since they played. Worcestershire in Scarborough in 2018.
It was the first time Yorkshire inserted and failed to take a bowling alley in its full set of overs since playing Sussex at Hove in 2011, since it succeeded only one other county: Leicestershire in Middlesex later that year.
Lancashire was 411-2 when the game was abandoned, with Wells at 97 and Josh Bohannon at 74.
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Source: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
This notice was published: 2021-07-13 19:48:40