Can't wait for tomorrow to watch us in a format I still really enjoy at one of my favourite away grounds to watch cricket, Scarborough.

Andy wrote:

Can't wait for tomorrow to watch us in a format I still really enjoy at one of my favourite away grounds to watch cricket, Scarborough.

same here Scarborough is probably my favourite single ground to watch cricket, very happy memories of I think it was a 40 over semi final and a T20 QF (or maybe it was 40 ovs both times) in consecutive years, 2009 and 2010 i think it was.

I remember the 40 over semi in 2010 at Scarborough. I have zero recall of us playing a T20 up there? Think 2009 we played up there in the CC.

Andy wrote:

I remember the 40 over semi in 2010 at Scarborough. I have zero recall of us playing a T20 up there? Think 2009 we played up there in the CC.

I remember i went up I am pretty sure for two consecutive years for white ball games, definitely 2010 was one of them because I saw Imran Tahir's utterly gorgeous wife with him after

it was definitely 2 white ball games as I've not seen a red ball game there

Andy wrote:

I remember the 40 over semi in 2010 at Scarborough. I have zero recall of us playing a T20 up there? Think 2009 we played up there in the CC.

I remember i went up I am pretty sure for two consecutive years for white ball games, definitely 2010 was one of them because I saw Imran Tahir's utterly gorgeous wife with him after

it was definitely 2 white ball games as I've not seen a red ball game there

You may well be right mate, I'm trying hard to think. 2010 was a definite, i was there. That was the one Imran Tahir played.

The 2010 was the semi-final where we beat Yorkshire, played Somerset in the final when Bell made that superb ton. I remember it because I looked around at the sparse crowd and realised that a Lord's final had stopped being an event like it used to be. It also started in the afternoon and went on till 8.30pm which was when the last train to Taunton left from what a Somerset fan told me, which he said put people off, especially older members who didn't fancy sitting there in the September cold.

Yes, I made a last minute decision to attend the Lord's final and had no trouble paying for a ticket on the gate, which you never would have been able to do in the past.

paulbear wrote:

The 2010 was the semi-final where we beat Yorkshire, played Somerset in the final when Bell made that superb ton. I remember it because I looked around at the sparse crowd and realised that a Lord's final had stopped being an event like it used to be. It also started in the afternoon and went on till 8.30pm which was when the last train to Taunton left from what a Somerset fan told me, which he said put people off, especially older members who didn't fancy sitting there in the September cold.

Yeah proper nervy run chase and very cold during the 2nd innings.

Yes I think the following year Yorkshire had to switch their T20 QF to Scarbados due to Headingley being in use for a test. I was at the 2010 semi final up on the coach and a lift back then went on the coaches to the final aswell. 2 cracking performances from Warks and Bell looking very decent captain material in that season coming back from injury

As for Scarborough, I was last there a while ago - 1965, to be precise.
I saw what was possibly the strongest cricket eleven ever to take the field. It's a big claim but take a look at the Rest of the World XI that played at Scarborough against M J K Smith's England XI:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/other-first-class-matches-1965-577458/england-xi-vs-rest-of-the-world-xi-221282/full-scorecard

Looks as though there was some great seaside weather as well.

mad wrote:

Yes I think the following year Yorkshire had to switch their T20 QF to Scarbados due to Headingley being in use for a test.

ah that was it! IIRC it was Tim Ambrose who played a key role with the bat

Just had a bit of a gander (slow day), we didn't reach the quarters of the T20 in 2011, we only won 4 out of 16 group games!

no idea but i have definitely seen us win there twice in white ball games !

paulbear wrote:

The 2010 was the semi-final where we beat Yorkshire, played Somerset in the final when Bell made that superb ton. I remember it because I looked around at the sparse crowd and realised that a Lord's final had stopped being an event like it used to be. It also started in the afternoon and went on till 8.30pm which was when the last train to Taunton left from what a Somerset fan told me, which he said put people off, especially older members who didn't fancy sitting there in the September cold.

Yes it was played 18th September and was v cold. They ruined the event,

Even 2005 was a sell out against Hampshire on a lovely sunny day!

Apart from the result.

Andy wrote:

Just had a bit of a gander (slow day), we didn't reach the quarters of the T20 in 2011, we only won 4 out of 16 group games!

Yeah I can only recall the 2010 semi final. I've been to several championship games or individual days of games. Remember Adil Rashid on debut tearing through us, we were woeful in the field only thing we hit all game was when nick knight took out a pigeon with a stray throw. Haven't we played there fairly recently in a white ball game? Maybe COVID year?

When the fixtures come out I always look to see if we've got a match in Scarbados. There were a few of years in the 2000s when our match formed the four-day game for the festival (when county cricket was played in August).

Perfect day: decent fried breakfast, cricket, Winking Willies for Haddock and Chips and then the legend 'Seaside' Danny Wilde (he's since moved on from the Nelson after a 30 year residency but is still rocking around the town) - happy days.

'Winking Willies', well what you do in your own spare time in Scarb's is up to you. It'll go no further.