Lees 70 as spinners keep Academy in third place

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Skipper Alex Lees, whose 70 with eight fours and a six and a stand of 120 with George Ross, set up this match for the Academy spinners

Skipper Alex Lees, above, led the way with 70 as Yorkshire Academy beat Sheffield Collegiate by 28 runs and held on to third place in the Solly Sports ECB Yorkshire County Premier League yesterday. It was a good day for spinners.

By winning the toss and having a good opening partnership teams are usually successful at Weetwood - and the Academy had their season's best start as left-handers Lees and George Ross, 51, shared a first-wicket stand of 120.

Lees was the first to go, stumped by Alex Patmore off skipper Matt Dixon, and as so often happens after a big stand more wickets fell - Irfan Amjad lbw to Dickson eight runs later for a duck, and then Ross caught by Nick Gaywood, again off Dixon.

Jack Hargreaves followed his excellent game on Saturday with a sound 37 containing five fours and a six, but yet again an Academy player was stumped. Jack Hughes accelerated the scoring with an aggressive 30 runs including two fine sixes before falling to a hard chance well taken at mid-wicket by Billy Root.

Alex Lilley pushed things on with 17 not out off 22 balls, but a further stumping occurred when David Girling tried to force the pace. 230-7 in the allotted 55 overs. Nadeem Khan and Dixon bowled 37 overs between them, and shared seven wickets. How spinners love to visit Weetwood.

Gaywood and John Meakin made a steady start for Collegiate until Meakin was caught behind by Henry Chadwick off Ashley Robinson. The only Sheffield wicket taken by a paceman. Yet again Wainman was very economical, bowling six miserly overs for nine runs.

William Root, brother of Joe, set out his stall to hold the middle-order together: his 56 runs were made in 105 minutes, but once Alex Patmore was bowled by left-hand spinner Gurman Randhawa the middle-order crumpled.

Only the top four batsmen reached double figures - Randhawa and Hughes sending down 18 and 17 overs. Gurman took 4-60 and Jack 3-59. Unfortunately for the Academy the undefeated eighth-wicket pair put on 19 runs, and Sheffield salvaged a point.

The Academy's six points were well deserved on the day their batting was slightly superior to Collegiate's, and they hold on to third place in the League - 25 points behind York, who have 110, and 20 behind Barnsley.

Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI v Sheffield Collegiate CC 1st XI

Sunday, July 18 2010 (12:00) at Weetwood, Leeds

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI Won By 28 runs

Points: Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI: 6 Sheffield Collegiate CC 1st XI: 1

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI won toss and decided to bat

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI	Sheffield Collegiate CC 1st XI
230 for 7 (55.0 overs)	202 for 8 (55.0 overs)
2 Hours, 43 Minutes.	2 Hours, 46 Minutes.

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
Alex Lees*	st A Patmore	b M Dixon	70	98	90	8	1	71.43
George Ross	c N Gaywood	b M Dixon	51	102	105	6	0	50.00
Irfan Amjad	lbw	b M Dixon	0	6	7	0	0	0.00
Jack Hargreaves	st A Patmore	b M Dixon	37	49	44	5	1	75.51
Gurman Randhawa	c B Fielding	b N Khan	11	30	34	1	0	36.67
Jack Hughes	c W Root	b N Khan	30	15	17	1	2	200.00
Alex Lilley	not out		17	22	24	1	0	77.27
David Girling	st A Patmore	b N Khan	3	6	7	0	0	50.00
Henry Chadwick+	not out		3	2	2	0	0	150.00
Ashley Robinson
James Wainman
Extras	0nb 1w 2lb 0b 5pen		8
Provisional Score For Innings			230
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			230	for 7

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
B Watson	8.0	1	31	0	1 (1)	0 (0)	0.00	3.88
R Richards	10.0	2	15	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	1.50
Nadeem Khan	20.0	7	75	3	0 (0)	0 (0)	40.00	3.75
Matt Dixon	17.0	2	102	4	0 (0)	0 (0)	25.50	6.00

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
Alex Lees	1-120	115	Alex Lees (70) George Ross (43)	31.2
Irfan Amjad	2-128	8	Irfan Amjad (0) George Ross (8)	33.2
George Ross	3-129	1	George Ross (0) Jack Hargreaves (1)	35.4
Gurman Randhawa	4-177	48	Gurman Randhawa (11) Jack Hargreaves (36)	46.6
Jack Hargreaves	5-177	0	Jack Hargreaves (0) Jack Hughes (0)	47.3
Jack Hughes	6-211	34	Jack Hughes (30) Alex Lilley (4)	52.2
David Girling	7-227	16	David Girling (3) Alex Lilley (13)	54.4

Sheffield Collegiate CC 1st XI

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
Nicholas Gaywood	c A Lees	b JB Hughes	47	124	108	5	0	37.90
J Meakin	c H Chadwick	b A Robinson	12	34	46	0	0	35.29
William Root		b JB Hughes	56	88	105	5	0	63.64
Alex Patmore+		b G Randhawa	27	36	28	2	0	75.00
M Simpson	c J Wainman	b G Randhawa	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
R Richards	c A Lilley	b G Randhawa	6	12	13	0	0	50.00
Tom Lister		b JB Hughes	6	9	10	0	0	66.67
Nadeem Khan	lbw	b G Randhawa	6	5	4	1	0	120.00
B Watson	not out		9	12	14	0	0	75.00
B. Fielding	not out		8	10	9	0	0	80.00
Matt Dixon*
Extras	0nb 0w 8lb 17b 0pen		25
Provisional Score For Innings			202
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			202	for 8

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
James Wainman	6.0	2	9	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	1.50
David Girling	6.0	1	15	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	2.50
Alex Lilley	4.0	0	18	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	4.50
Ashley Robinson	4.0	0	16	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	24.00	4.00
Gurman Randhawa	18.0	2	60	4	0 (0)	0 (0)	27.00	3.33
Jack Hughes	17.0	0	59	3	0 (0)	0 (0)	34.00	3.47

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
J Meakin	1-29	29	J Meakin (12) Nicholas Gaywood (15)	13.1
Nicholas Gaywood	2-110	81	Nicholas Gaywood (32) William Root (30)	33.5
Alex Patmore	3-157	47	Alex Patmore (27) William Root (20)	44.4
M Simpson	4-157	0	M Simpson (0) William Root (0)	44.5
R Richards	5-168	11	R Richards (6) William Root (5)	48.5
William Root	6-169	1	William Root (1) B Fielding (0)	49.1
Nadeem Khan	7-178	9	Nadeem Khan (6) B Fielding (3)	50.3
B Fielding	8-183	5	B Fielding (3) B Watson (2)	51.4