A week after a draw to St Chads, North Leeds headed to Adel in hope that they could earn their first win of the season.
North Leeds batted first due to 4 players arriving late. With Tom Deane and his new opening partner, Matthew Wadsworth, heading out to the middle, North Leeds felt confident. However, Deane struggling mightily for early season form, was soon heading back to the clubhouse two balls later for the first duck of the season having missed a straight one.
Jack Harland joined Wadsworth at the crease and immediately looked in top form, playing some elegant shots all around the wicket. Meanwhile, Wadsworth was looking scratchy and reached one of his highest North Leeds scores, 7 , before being caught.
Charlie Whitehill-Sharkey found himself at the lofty heights of 4 and quickly pleased the crowd and himself by finding the middle of his new bat. With Harland departing for a well earned 37, North Leeds started to send its hitters into bat. Adam Copley (14), Jonny Taylor (14), and Harry Dixon (5) all hit out around Charlie, who with some uncharacteristic running ended up with 23*. An innings which will we likely hear about for some time but it wasn't quite his 33 at Follifoot.
North Leeds set Adel a target of 116 to win and with Charlie a bit ''puffed'' after his innings, Harry Dixon and Jack Harland were to open to bowling. Both Dixon and Harland bowled a tight line and despite Harland stamping his feet and screaming ''You must be joking'', he couldn't find a breakthrough.
The wickets started to fall once Adam Copley got his hands on the ball, first by running out O'Sullivan with only one stump to aim at, then running out the non-striker as his hand deflected the ball onto the stumps and finally bowled the opener Omar with a yorker.
Then Tom Deane misfielded.
With the rain coming, North Leeds tightened the screw in its fielding, led by Charlie 'moves like a panther' Whitehill-Sharkey and Karendeep's incredible one handed effort. Its slower bowlers were brought on to rush through the overs before the rain came.
2 more wickets fell, from good catches by Dixon and Karendeep but with Adel needing 59 from 15 deliveries we rightly came off as lightening was seen and it looked like although game abandoned from a winning position.
However, a couple of minutes later a messenger arrived to our dressing room and announced that Adel were going to hand us the game to which we were relieved and grateful of their top sportsmanship.
Woodhouse next which is always a high scoring game and again thanks to Adel, who we wish the best in the remaining games.