Greenhough playing for England against South Africa in 1960 and Statham captaining the Players against the Gentlemen at Lord’s. Furthermore the Lancashire team lacked two other Test players in Hilton and Tattersall, out of the side and close to the end of their careers, the match being allocated for their joint benefit. Tattersall was 12th man and Hilton was playing for Lancashire Second XI at Scarborough. The umpires were John Langridge and Syd Buller. Immediately, Lancashire took a firm grip on the match after Barber had won the toss and decided to field. On Saturday splendid bowling by Statham, five for 43, and Higgs, four for 48, dismissed Yorkshire for 154, only a sound display from Close (63) preventing a complete rout. Close got rid of Pullar at 26 but Barber reached his half-century before the close when Yorkshire were 97 without further loss. On August Bank Holiday Monday, Barber (71) and Wharton (83) carried their second wicket partnership to 131 which took Lancashire into the lead with only one wicket down, although keen bowling and fielding denied them bonus points. At 187 for three Lancashire were in a strong position but following a heavy storm just after lunch Trueman (four for 65) and Ryan (three for 69) were able to make the ball fly and the innings closed at 226. Yorkshire, 72 behind, lost two men for 19 before the day ended and on Tuesday, with Statham (four for 23) taking full advantage of the pitch, half their side had gone for 36 before Sharpe (46) and the twoWilsons resisted. The innings closed for 149, leaving Lancashire to make 78 in two hours. What could Yorkshire do? They considered starting with spin but it was discarded as carrying too many risks. They decided on a pace attack, making every possible use of the lift that was in the pitch to give the batsmen as much trouble as possible, with a defensive field setting. They would try to force Lancashire into mistakes while cutting off as many scoring opportunities as possible. Trueman takes up the story. “We could not reasonably expect to bowl them out but we could hope to put them under pressure when they got behind the clock. Above all, we wanted to prevent a Lancashire win. Well, don’t tell anybody who saw that Tuesday afternoon’s play that defensive cricket can never be exciting because I’m pretty sure no one who saw it will ever forget the next two hours.” His partner was Mel Ryan, who did not have a settled place in the team, playing only a few matches each season, and as Trueman said: “His experience of bowling ‘tight’ was limited but he bowled magnificently.” Lancashire began steadily but Barber was run out after 40 minutes by a brilliant return from Padgett. Gradually the task became increasingly difficult. Wharton fell to a good catch by Padgett, Pullar was bowled by a devastating ball from Ryan and Trueman bowled Marner for a duck. Suddenly 16 without loss became 32 for four. Lancashire were now under pressure. A fifth wicket (Collins) fell at 43 and then Statham was caught at the wicket off Ryan before he had scored. Six down for 43; Grieves and Clayton now together. At 60 Grieves was missed off Trueman by the usually safe Vic Wilson at deep mid-off and 29 runs were added in 25 minutes as Lancashire struck back. Clayton hit ten off Ryan’s final over, including two lucky fours, but with the total 72 Grieves had gone, caught behind off Ryan for 27. Lancashire, with seven wickets down, needed six from the last over of the game to be delivered by Trueman. Clayton pushed a single off the first but the second bowled Greenhough, leaving Lancashire v Yorkshire 142