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16-05-2025
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Bairstow hits 89 but Surrey keep Yorks in check
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (day one)Yorkshire 255: Bairstow 89; Clark 3-31Surrey 46-0: Yet to batSurrey (3 pts) trail Yorkshire (1 pt) by 209 runs Match scorecard Captain Jonny Bairstow made a sparkling 89 and Adam Lyth passed fifty for the sixth time this season, but Yorkshire squandered a promising position on the first day against the 16th County Championship game in a row at the Kia Oval the side who won the toss bowled first, but at 203-5 just before tea, with Bairstow at his attacking best, Yorkshire were in the ascendancy on a typically green-tinged pitch offering some seam movement and good Revis had helped Bairstow put on 49 but former Yorkshire team-mate Matt Fisher had Revis caught behind off the last ball before the interval and after tea Surrey took was cruising towards a hundred when he top-edged a sweep and although Yorkshire's tailenders did secure a batting point their last five wickets fell for 52 in a total of 255. In 13 overs before the close Surrey openers Rory Burns and Dom Sibley reached 46 without is expected to miss next week's game against Nottinghamshire so he can join Mumbai Indians, and some of his shots would not have looked out of place in the IPL including a sumptuous straight drive off Nathan Smith - his 10th four – which brought up a 63-ball fifty in front of an appreciative crowd of more than 5, more boundaries followed and having passed 50 for the fourth time this season he looked odd-on to convert it into a hundred. Surrey turned to off-spinner Dan Lawrence and he made the breakthrough when Bairstow top-edged a sweep to deep backward square leg, an anti-climactic end to a fine the situation demanded, Lyth's approach was more circumspect but his was still a crucial contribution in the first half of the left-hander and opening partner Fin Bean were relatively untroubled as they put on 52 in 75 minutes before Bean, who'd been dropped at leg gully by Lawrence on eight, drove at Tom Lawes and Kurtis Patterson, the Australian batter making his Surrey debut, took a good catch at third and Jordan Clark shared six wickets and were the pick of the Surrey attack. Clark's extra bounce undid James Wharton while Lawes benefitted from Ben Foakes' athleticism when Jonny Tattersall fended the ball off his hips and the Surrey keeper dived full length to his left to hold the reached his fifty off 117 balls and it took an outstanding ball to remove him, a brutish lifter from New Zealander Smith which he gloved to Hill edged to second slip where Sibley held a juggling catch to give Clark his second wicket, but in the hour before tea Bairstow and Revis were caused few they departed in the space of nine overs, however, Surrey made short work of Yorkshire's lower order. Lawrence, diving to his right, took a fine return catch to dismiss Ben Coad while Jordan Thompson played well for his 30 before a top-edged pull, expertly held on the long leg rope by Jason Roy, gave Lawes his third wicket. Clark needed only four deliveries with the second new ball to pin Jordan Buckingham on the boot and finish things Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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11-05-2025
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Essex slump towards defeat by Yorkshire
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford (day three)Yorkshire 216 & 426-6 dec: Lyth 185, Bairstow 79, Wharton 61; Thain 3-96Essex 123: Pepper 30; Hill 6-51, Coad 3-20 & 64-4 White 3-17Essex (3 pts) need another 456 to beat Yorkshire (3 pts) with six wickets standingMatch scorecard Adam Lyth's patiently accumulated 185, and Jonny Bairstow's typically belligerent half-century, set Essex an unlikely 520 to prevent Yorkshire chalking up their second County Championship win of the second century of the spring, the 39th of his 18-year first-class career, spanned six hours and 41 minutes of determination and obduracy. The 37-year-old left-hander shared a 153-run second-wicket stand with James Wharton, who added 61 to his unbeaten 63 from the first innings, that underpinned Yorkshire's 426-6 declaration was hastened by Bairstow's 79 from74 balls that included three sixes and was part of a roller-coaster sixth-wicket stand of 99 with Matty Revis, who contributed 37 off 32 balls. Bairstow, dropped on five by slip that would have enhanced Thain's analysis, played an unorthodox reverse sweep-cum-pull that sent a delivery from Critchley for six over point. With the declaration looming, Bairstow and Revis rattled off 29 runs in a 14-ball spree before the captain raced past his second half-century of the season with two sixes in the last over before tea from Shane Snater that also included a ramped batted on for 14 balls after tea before Bairstow holed out to long-on and immediately called a halt to Sam Cook rested in light of his potential England debut against Zimbabwe later this month, the Essex attack had lacked penetration. And the only consolation for Essex's dispirited fielders who circled the boundary by the end, were career-best bowling figures of 3-96 for young seamer Noah sense of gathering despair continued when Essex batted. They lost four wickets in the 27 overs that remained in the day in the face of some accurate seam bowling from Jack White, who took 3-17. Essex eked out 64 runs by the close but, with 456 to win, are staring down the barrel of back-to-back defeats when they resume on day chances of batting out nearly four sessions became considerably slimmer when White got a delivery to jump up around Dean Elgar's adam's apple as early as the second over and it was fended off into third slip's Hill followed up his six-wicket haul from the first innings by trapping Tom Westley lbw with only his fourth delivery in the second. And next over Charlie Allison drove White uppishly to a tumbling mid-off while Robin Das nudged one to first Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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11-05-2025
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County Championship, Yorkshire lead over Essex passes 300, day three - radio & text
Click on the 'watch & listen' tab to access BBC local radio commentaries Get involved #bbccricket Adam Lyth scores hundred as Yorkshire extend lead over Essex Haynes & Patterson-White hit centuries for Notts against Hampshire Glamorgan enforce follow-on against Kent at Canterbury Lancashire bowl out Northants for 273 and need 236 to win County Championship, Yorkshire lead over Essex passes 300, day three - radio & text
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11-05-2025
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County Championship, Yorkshire lead over Essex passes 300, day three - radio & text
'Yorkshire batting very well' Essex 123 v Yorks 216 & 219-1 Jonathan Doidge BBC Radio Leeds cricket commentator Yorkshire have been batting very well but it has to be said that some of the bowling has not been at the highest order. Adam Lyth really has put the pedal to the metal since he got to that 100 mark. Incidentally, there are just two counties now that Adam Lyth is yet to score a first-class century against - Worcestershire and Derbyshire.
BBC News
10-05-2025
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Six of the best for Hill as Tykes take charge
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford (day two)Yorkshire 216: Wharton 63*, Lyth 58; Critchley 4-49 & 114-1: Lyth 79*Essex 123: Pepper 30; Hill 6-51, Coad 3-20Essex 3 pts, Yorkshire 3 ptsMatch scorecard George Hill produced the second-best bowling figures of his burgeoning first-class career as Essex were routed for 123 before Yorkshire extended their lead to 207 runs at 24-year-old seamer added four wickets for 37 runs on the second day to finish with 6-51 – numbers only eclipsed by his 6-26 in the Roses Match at Old Trafford in 2022 – and 19 wickets in all this season in the Rothesay County Herculean effort, backed up by fellow pace bowler Ben Coad's parsimonious 3-20 from 18 overs, helped Yorkshire establish a first-innings lead of 93, which they increased by 114 for the loss of one wicket in 49 opener Adam Lyth led the way in taking the game away from Essex with an unbeaten 166-ball 79, his fifth score of 50 or more in 10 innings so far this spring.A capricious pitch offered more lift and carry than it had on the first day. Whereas Yorkshire's first innings had been underpinned by five lbws, Essex's was littered with catches to either the wicketkeeper or slip cordon. Hill was the main was also still a wicket that was difficult to score on: Essex managed two an over compared to Yorkshire's 2.5 in their first innings and 2.3 so far in the the day belonged to Hill as he continued where he left off the night before. He already had Robin Das in trouble during the first 25 minutes of the day before he induced a thick edge that flew to third slip and initiated an inexorable Critchley followed to a similar dismissal, dangling his bat at Coad and also ending up in Finlay Bean's hands at third Westley played a captain's innings for more than two hours before he became another victim in a tight opening spell from Coad, who found the faintest of edges from an angled second wicket of the morning marked the end of his opening burst of nine overs with five maidens and 10 runs. At that stage, Hill had 1-27 in the session from his nine 59-6, Michael Pepper and Noah Thain pieced together a minor fightback with a stand of 46 in 17 overs. Neither, though, looked comfortable when spinner Dan Moriarty was introduced into the attack and when Pepper lunged forward to try and negate any turn, he could only nick end was not much longer in coming. Though Thain greeted Hill's recall to arms with a glorious drive through extra cover for his fourth boundary, an attempt at an ambitious and expansive straighter drive at the fifth delivery proved his Snater became Jonny Bairstow's fifth catch behind the stumps when he went to fend off a fuller ball while Kasun Rajitha lasted just three balls before he walked into another Hill delivery and was Lyth and Bean had given Yorkshire what should have been a solid platform in the first innings with an opening stand of 71 before the subsequent collapse to 216 all out. The pair were intent on replicating that partnership, though without any frills or passed fifty for the second time in the match – this time from 106 balls – at which point Bean had contributed just 14 to the effort. With another five runs to his tally, equalling his top score in a season of personal struggle, Bean went to pull Thain and got a leading edge. The partnership had been worth Wharton, unbeaten with a painstaking 63 in the first innings, threw caution to the wind and launched Critchley on to the press box roof and into the river Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
