Higgs padded up in the pavilion at 73 for eight. The third ball went away to leg off Dyson’s pads. They ran two and Dyson stopped the fourth dead in his blockhole, setting off on a run when he saw Clayton hurtling towards him. Clayton scored another single behind the wicket from the fifth ball and so it was Dyson, the Manchester City footballer, who, at 5.15pm, faced the last ball from Trueman with the scores level at 77 for eight. Trueman recalled Clayton giving Dyson all kinds of instructions which he probably didn’t hear. The bowler walked back to his mark. He suspected that Dyson feared a bouncer but instead he decided to bowl a yorker to the bottom of the leg and middle stump. “It was as good a yorker as I have ever bowled but Dyson countered with the only possible effective answer. He shuffled forward, bat and pad close together, and somehow he got an edge. It was an edge just thick enough to deflect the ball wide of Jimmy Binks’s outstretched glove and away the ball went to the fine-leg boundary.” Lancashire, 81 for eight from 31 overs, had won by two wickets. Clayton was unbeaten with 15; Ryan’s figures were 15-4-50-5 and Trueman’s 16-4-28-2. During the three days, 74,000 spectators saw this red-blooded encounter in which Lancashire completed their first Roses double since 1893. Lancashire now headed the table and Sussex’s victory at Hove meant they moved ahead of Middlesex. The top four on August 2 read: Lancashire played 23, points 176, average 7.65; Yorkshire 24, 176, 7.33; Sussex 23, 154, 6.69 and Middlesex 19, 126, 6.63. Lancashire won their next game to maintain the lead but their last six Championship matches were disastrous for four were lost and two drawn. In the end they were hard pressed to finish second to Yorkshire, with Middlesex third and Sussex fourth. Trueman wrote: “Twenty years later I think of the 1960 season not as one when we won the Championship but as the time we were beaten twice by Lancashire – and a thick edge off my last ball brought the winning runs. Such wounds are slow to heal.” Trueman had made his England debut against the Indians in 1952 and he said he found the pressures of Test cricket nothing like those of the game against Lancashire the previous weekend. He was to the fore in Yorkshire’s dominance of the Roses encounters before the holidays changed course, which tended to bring them Whitsuntide victories, with the August matches undecided. In the 1963 game at Bramall Lane, Stott (143) shared a fourth wicket partnership of 249 with Geoff Boycott, whose 145 was his maiden hundred. He promptly followed with two more centuries at Old Trafford in 1963 and 1964 – and then ‘failed’ with 62 at Headingley in August 1964, when Yorkshire won by an innings despite Sonny Ramadhin’s eight for 121. Lancashire v Yorkshire 143