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BBC News
27-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
McGrath hopes T20 Blast can boost Yorkshire fortunes
Anthony McGrath admits Yorkshire's red-ball efforts have been well below par so far this season but called on supporters to keep the faith as they switch to white-ball action on sit just one place off the Division One basement, with only one win from seven matches in the County Championship ahead of the mid-season while McGrath concedes fans are right to be critical, he is hoping the start of the T20 Blast, with Northants first up at Headingley on Friday, can bring a change of fortune."We've only got a few days' turnaround [from the defeat against Nottinghamshire] but I think that's a good thing," he told BBC Radio Leeds. "Players want to get out there again and we can't feel sorry for ourselves. "It's a new competition and it is about starting well. We have done a lot of planning but again that counts for nothing, it is the performances. I'm looking forward to seeing how we react on Friday evening."McGrath admits Yorkshire's return to the top flight following promotion from Division Two last season has been underwhelming so far."Right here, right now we have got to look in ourselves, not just the players but all the coaches as well and we've got to find some answers," he added."Our members, supporters or people who follow us are not interested in ifs and buts. People should be critical and we have no problem with that. The table doesn't look great but that is not going to change."But this is no time to feel sorry for ourselves though. It's about understanding what it is to be a Yorkshire player and the levels we need to get to."On the face of it, the T20 Blast might appear unlikely to offer obvious comfort as Yorkshire remain one of only four counties - alongside Derbyshire, Durham and Glamorgan - who are yet to win a competition which is in its 23rd year."This group is dying to do well but you need more than that. At the highest levels of sport, it is not about skill, it is about what's in your head."It is a competition we know we have to get better at, but it is about us going out there and getting momentum and improving."
The Independent
19-05-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Champions Surrey complete comprehensive win over Yorkshire
Surrey completed a commanding Rothesay County Championship victory by an innings and 28 runs after dismissing Yorkshire for 229 at the Kia Oval. Yorkshire had resumed on 185 for six, still trailing by 72 runs, with captain Jonny Bairstow having made a half-century. However, after Surrey all-rounder Ryan Patel had bowled Bairstow for 77 to claim his first wicket of the season, the champions soon closed out the match. Surrey secured a second victory of the campaign ahead of lunch when Jordan Thompson holed out for 16 off Jordan Clark, who finished with four for 45 while Tom Lawes returned three for 47. Yorkshire slipped to a third defeat from their six Championship matches so far, sitting second bottom of the table above Worcestershire.
BBC News
12-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Essex hold out for draw against Yorkshire
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford (day four)Yorkshire 216 & 426-6 dec: Lyth 185, Bairstow 79, Wharton 61; Thain 3-96Essex 123 & 273-9: Critchley 75, Pepper 68; White 4-32, Hill 3-31 Essex (11 pts) drew with Yorkshire (11 pts) Match scorecard Matt Critchley and Michael Pepper knuckled down for a monumental fifth-wicket stand of 154 in 77 overs to help steer Essex to the unlikeliest of County Championship draws against Yorkshire at pair came together in the depths of despair at 45-4 on the third evening and batted for four-and-a-half hours together, spanning 458 balls, and looked to have made it through two complete sessions on the final day. Pepper, though, fell to the last ball before tea after a 229-ball 68 that included five fours and two followed after the interval for 75 from 246 balls as Yorkshire scented their second win of the season with three wickets in 21 balls. However, last-wicket pair Simon Harmer and Jamie Porter saw out the final 38 minutes and 82 balls to prevent a second successive Hill returned career-best match figures of 9-82, supported by Jack White's season's best 4-43, but to no avail as Yorkshire toiled in vain for one more target of 520, with 456 still nominally required at the start of day four, was always going to be beyond Essex's compass and it became more a case of settling in to save plans for survival, however, were set out from the start as Pepper and Critchley blocked and blocked with little alarm. It was not until the 20th ball of the day that they moved off their overnight 64-4 when Critchley angled a Ben Coad delivery wide of the slips for a boundary. It was only the introduction of Hill after 35 minutes that saw the usually flamboyant Pepper opened his morning's account, turning the ball down to fine leg for a first sign of serious aggression came when Critchley hooked Matty Revis so firmly that the square-leg umpire had to take evasive action as it sped to the boundary. Revis then attempted a short-ball barrage at Pepper which and it nearly came off when the Essex batsman gloved one up and over Jonny Bairstow's head behind the broke out of his self-imposed shackles by sweeping Dom Bess for one six and adding a second over long leg. In between, he survived a difficult chance off an uppish drive past Pepper scampered the single soon after lunch that took him to a 155-ball 50 followed quickly by the century stand that ate up 51 overs. Critchley's 50 was more circumspect, reached with another four guided down to third man from his 190th ball hopes seemed to hinge on the second new-ball, but they failed to make it count immediately and Bess was recalled to the attack after nine fruitless overs. However, to the final ball of the 13th over with it, on the cusp of tea, Pepper was caught leaning into a Hill delivery and departed Thain lasted 15 balls before he was bowled through the gate by Bess and Critchley's marathon innings ended when he got the faintest of tickles to Hill and was caught Snater held out for 32 balls without scoring before he fell lbw to White and Kasun Rajitha's 21 came off 40 balls before he played down the wrong line and was bowled by Dan Moriarty. But then Porter came in to join Harmer and thwart Yorkshire despite being ringed by close Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
10-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
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
