Someone was going to pay the price for Rowledge all-rounder Chris ‘Rowdy’ Yates missing his cricket last Saturday – he was stuck in numerous motorway traffic jams for close on four hours before abandoning his planned 75-mile trip to drive to Winton for a Hampshire League County Division 2 game.
He was still hot under the collar by the time he turned out for Hampshire Seniors in a Sixties Championship match three days later – and took it out on Wiltshire !
Hampshire had started well through Neil Trestrail (40) and Geoff Beale and lost three wickets without scoring a single run. They weren’t in the best state of health at 105-5 (chasing Wiltshire’s 181-9) when Yates (pictured) joined Hook & Newnham Basics ace Barry Goodman (26) at the crease. Between them, they polished off the 77 runs Hampshire needed to win, Yates smashing five boundaries in his run-a-ball 45.
“I felt better for that,” Yates said. “I had to vent my frustrations on someone and it happened to be Wiltshire !”
Hampshire 50s are in action against Cornwall at Sparsholt on Sunday and the Isle of Wight at distant Hook & Newnham Basics on Wednesday, 1pm.
He was still hot under the collar by the time he turned out for Hampshire Seniors in a Sixties Championship match three days later – and took it out on Wiltshire !
Hampshire had started well through Neil Trestrail (40) and Geoff Beale and lost three wickets without scoring a single run. They weren’t in the best state of health at 105-5 (chasing Wiltshire’s 181-9) when Yates (pictured) joined Hook & Newnham Basics ace Barry Goodman (26) at the crease. Between them, they polished off the 77 runs Hampshire needed to win, Yates smashing five boundaries in his run-a-ball 45.
“I felt better for that,” Yates said. “I had to vent my frustrations on someone and it happened to be Wiltshire !”
- Wiltshire’s 181-9 was built around a classy half-century from Lord Tim Mynott (52), but they too collapsed, losing three wickets for five runs against Rick Marston (3-25) and Yates (3-28).
Hampshire 50s are in action against Cornwall at Sparsholt on Sunday and the Isle of Wight at distant Hook & Newnham Basics on Wednesday, 1pm.
