YORKSHIRE heading for promotion.

Just need Gloucestershire to do Middlesex, looks like they could manufacture a result,which way who knows
A lot will depend on Glos appetite for a chase, they are only playing for pride, but that said the consequences for them losing in trying to win is pretty much nothing too.

Weather looks decent enough for pretty much a full days play tmr, with the early start too.

Middx are blasting along trying to set a target at the moment. Middx dont want to lose, that would really screw them up. a draw isnt great for them but not fatal to their promo hopes, but would leave Middx probably needing to beat Sussex in the final game.
i suspect we'll see a declaration around lunchtime leaving Glos to make 350 ish to win and maybe 65 overs to try to bowl them out?
 
Middlesex currently 19 points behind Yorkshire and look like could be heading for a draw?
They will get the same ax Yorks 22 pts if they win and will be 1pt ahead with 2 to play.

Yorks have glamorgan and northants, middlesex have derbyshire and then Sussex. Knock off 8 if they draw
 
Fortunately my prediction for a declaration target was well out🤣.
MIddx have.potentially really screwed up here.

Game on for Glos tmr
 
Not many. I was at the Durham v Yorkshire match last season. Gorgeous weather and you had rows to yourself.
Good turn outs in the durham v yorks t20 games, county championship tends to be week days start and back end when the weather is generally poor.
Some good crowds at Scarborough this year, 4k plus i think some days
 
Had some great times at Acklam Park before the county games there were scrapped. Hospitality great. Pity the regular county games were terminated. Still, I suppose by then we were not officially in Yorkshire.
Nothing to do with not officially being in Yorkshire. Cricket maintains the traditional county boundaries!
 
Had some great times at Acklam Park before the county games there were scrapped. Hospitality great. Pity the regular county games were terminated. Still, I suppose by then we were not officially in Yorkshire.

It's basically been scrapped everywhere except for Leeds and Scarborough, hasn't it?

There's only been one ground outside of those two to host any senior Yorkshire cricket since 1996, a single first class match at Clifton Park in York in 2019 and it also hosted some one day matches in the last few years.

I don't think it was down to 1974, and hosting the last match in 1996 would have been a strange year to choose considering it was the year the Middlesbrough officially became part of North Yorkshire again and the final match was hosted after the abolition of Cleveland.

Plenty of grounds that have always been indisputably Yorkshire also haven't hosted since 1996, I'd guess the real reason is money.
 
Had some great times at Acklam Park before the county games there were scrapped. Hospitality great. Pity the regular county games were terminated. Still, I suppose by then we were not officially in Yorkshire.

Me mam and dad ran the club in those halcyon days - used to love the Sunday games.
David Bairstow always used to find time for a chat with me too.
 
Plenty of grounds that have always been indisputably Yorkshire also haven't hosted since 1996, I'd guess the real reason is money.
Yes it was part money - giving away gate receipts to the outgrounds* rather than keeping them at Headingley, and I seem to recall there was a feeling that we weren't getting the full home advantage of knowing how the wicket played as we played only a couple of games a season at each ground. *Middlesbrough Sheffield Bradford York Harrogate and Scarborough (Hull upto the 70's too)

Scarborough still gets 2 4day games in the "festival" weeks and the one day cup was played at York and Scarborough whilst the Hundred was being played at Leeds.
 
Gloucestershire already lost a wicket, 9 for 1, needing 225 more to beat Middlesex.
Where’s the rain when you need it ?
 
Had some great times at Acklam Park before the county games there were scrapped. Hospitality great. Pity the regular county games were terminated. Still, I suppose by then we were not officially in Yorkshire.
They were scrapped at Acklam park for financial and also sporting reasons. Financially you get a lot more people in Headingley than Acklam Park. You can prepare a better pitch if you only playing at 1 or 2 grounds. Most counties cut down the number of places they played at the same time as Yorkshire did it. Middlesbrough moved from north riding to Cleveland in the 1974. As another poster said cricket follows traditional county boundaries which tend to bordered by rivers. Yorkshire tees to the humber and durham tyne to tees and northumberland tyne to tweed.
 
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