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Appleby Frodingham CC 291 for 7 (50 Overs) 

beat Hallam CC 217 for 8 (50 Overs) 

by 74 runs 

Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League, Premier Division 

Played at Crimicar Lane, Sheffield 

Saturday 24 April 2021 

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First Blog of 2021 and it's APRIL. That's the story. And today, I was back again at Crimicar Lane, Sheffield. Another season. Another Cricket League reshuffle & name change. Now it's the YCSPL. 

(Premier League Cricket. Non-League Cricket to use a football reference. Recreational cricket. Park cricket. Club Cricket. Played by your Sheffield United Cricket Club for eg. The first sporting club to be called UNITED. In 1854. A good 35 years before a certain Football Club started using the name UNITED. And your Hallam CC. Who first appeared in records in 1804.)

In all honesty, that game never felt as close as even a 74 run marauding. Appleby Frodingham had a first wicket stand of 111. Alex Grimes was third gone at 221 for 92 runs in the 40th. And a quick scuff around for 70, left a D for Daunting total of 292 to get.

Hallam never really looked like they were up with any sort of rate. Nor looked like they were building a platform for some biff. Alex Hughes & Nick Dymock both went at 36. And, there were LotsADots about. After 20 overs, it was only 71 for 2. And Jack Unwin was third gone in the next over. After that, it all felt a bit Middle Nets for Hallam. An eighth wicket stand of 71 pushed it on to 195 in the 47th. Way off.

Did you hear? As well as being allowed to watch cricket in the park, parts of pubs are open as well. I mean, it's the outside of pubs. Rather than the inside. But, you might as well have adventures. So, the adventure this week was to the Kirkstall Brewery Tap, appropriately on Kirkstall Road in Leeds. I hadn't quite realised what a big old operation Kirkstall Brewery is. We got lost & had to cut through the back, on the delivery lane to some other units. Lots of warehouse space overflowing with casks & kegs. At the front, the big tanks & flashing light units are visible through the big glass windows. And the other half of the front is taken up by the pub signs & breweriana stuffed tap room. Which you're allowed to walk bemasked through for a piss. The mad collection of bistro tables, garden benches & assorted camping equipment is in a roped off bit on the forecourt.

Good Covid set up. Bookable. Shown to a picnic table & bench. Next reservation on that bench was six an' half hours hence. That's doable. Printed beer lists on clipboards. Wave. Fella he come. ORDER.

Good range of their own cask & kegs. Cider. Plus Veltins for the Ordinary Lager Gliders. 

The best of the lot was;

Kirkstall Brewery, Dissolution on cask at 5%.

I mean. Don't get me wrong. I've piled into the kegs. But, it has been lovely to be able to have a go at a freshly pulled, cellar temperature cask ale again. And that Dissolution was in superb condition. Nice, English IPA feel going on. Nothing challenging. Bags of flavour. A gorgeous soapy, citrus lead in, through some apricot to a gentle enough bitter finish.

What's next? Fuck knows. See you in a year maybe.

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