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BBC News
25-05-2025
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Yorks' pursuit of Notts falters after late wickets
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Headingley (day three)Nottinghamshire 228 & 393-8: Slater 78, Clarke 94; Coad 3-64Yorkshire 159 & 176-5: Wharton 58, Lyth 44; Patterson-White 3-25Yorkshire (3 pts) need 287 runs to beat Notts (3 pts) with five wickets standingMatch scorecard Liam Patterson-White claimed the key wickets of Adam Lyth, Dawid Malan and James Wharton during the third evening to keep league leaders Nottinghamshire on course for another County Championship victory having set Yorkshire a 463-target at made a confident start to their unlikely pursuit, reaching 114-1 after tea, with opener Lyth contributing Patterson-White's left-arm spin was introduced, and after 11 balls he had removed Lyth caught behind cutting and Malan bowled for 12 playing back to one that turned appreciably. He later had Wharton lbw for Yorkshire are aiming to avoid a fourth defeat in seven Division One games and closed on 176-5 from 56.3 overs, needing 287 more. Nottinghamshire are chasing a fourth win in seven. The visitors, for whom Dillon Pennington struck in the day's final over, declared their second innings on 393-8 midway through the afternoon, Joe Clarke top-scoring with a fluent 94 off 121 Coad finished with with three for 64 for Yorkshire as they were set the task of achieving the highest successful run chase by any side in first-class history at Headingley and also the county's highest at any chased 404 to win here in 2006. In 2005, Yorkshire had chased the same target to beat Leicestershire at Grace started the day on 227 for three, leading by 296, with Clarke on 73 - his second half-century of the wasn't entirely plain-sailing progression for the visitors during the first half of a day interrupted by a couple of brief morning rain the hard work had been done with the bat during the afternoon and evening sessions of day two, putting them into a position where a defeat was highly fell narrowly short of what would have been a deserved second century in as many matches, ending a 95-run fourth-wicket stand with Jack Haynes when he was trapped lbw on the back pad by Jordan Thompson - wicket fell just before the new ball was taken, and just afterwards Haynes was brilliantly caught behind one-handed by Harry Duke for 43 off an inside-edge. Kyle Verreynne edged Jack White to second slip just before lunch, where Notts reached at 318-6, leading by visitors became increasingly aggressive after the break, with Patterson-White and Lyndon James both holing out to mid-on and mid-off against White and Coad. The latter fell to an excellent diving catch on the run from White at mid-off as the score slipped to 333-8, a lead of lead was then boosted to the tune of 60 inside eight overs as Brett Hutton, in particular, and Pennington went in search of quick runs prior to a crashed four fours and two sixes in 44 not out off 26 balls as Yorkshire had to contend with the loss seam-bowling all-rounder Thompson midway through his 16th over with what looked like a side will be sweating on his fitness ahead of the start of the T20 Blast later this White Rose then started their chase Lyth's 44 meant he followed Notts' opener and captain Haseeb Hameed to the 700-run mark in Division One this summer. They are the two batters leading the way in the shared 40 with Fin Bean, who was first to go for 17 when trapped lbw by side of tea, the left-hander then shared 74 for the second with Patterson-White's intervention - getting Lyth and Malan - dampened any rising Yorkshire hopes, leaving the score at 132-3 in the 31st reached his fifth fifty of the season off 75 balls, but he followed no longer after as he was trapped in front playing forwards against the same bowler with the score on finished with an excellent 3-25 from 14 overs, and Pennington had Duke caught behind with what proved the day's final ball to further strengthen Nottinghamshire's supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
BBC News
12-05-2025
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County Championship, Hove game in balance, Essex hold up Yorkshire - radio & text
Post Essex 191-4 (target 520) v Yorks There are a minimum of 40 overs remaining at Chelmsford, which should be plenty of time for Yorkshire to pick up six wickets. But they haven't taken one since the 17th over of this Essex innings last night - more than 66 overs ago - and Ben Coad and Jack White really need to make something happen quickly with this second new ball. Matt Critchley has just edged ahead of partner Michael Pepper again, with 65 runs to the latter's 64.
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
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07-02-2025
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'Leader' Coad extends Yorkshire contract until 2028
Yorkshire pace bowler Ben Coad has extended his contract until at least the end of the 2028 31-year-old took a division-leading 56 wickets as the Headingley side won promotion back to Division One of the County Championship last season."I take real pride in representing my home county," he told the club website., external"I'm incredibly excited for this next chapter at the club. We have a great set of young, talented cricketers coming through and I want to do all I can to help develop them and push the team to some silverware." New Yorkshire head coach Anthony McGrath, who signed a five-year contract in October, called Coad "one of the best bowlers in the country" and was "delighted" the deal had been done. "The hard work he consistently puts in continues to pay off for himself and the team," McGrath said."He is not just exceptional on the pitch, he's a leader off it, too and his presence in the dressing room is crucial at a time when we're reaching that next level."
