Yorkshire OT 4 DAYS 27/5/21 TO 30/5/21

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orkshire are aiming to crank things up a gear at just the right time when they travel to face fellow high-flyers Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday (11am).

The White Rose players and coaches have not hidden away from the fact they have been nowhere near their best this season despite remaining unbeaten in the LV= Insurance County Championship with three wins and three draws.

The 200-run win over Kent at Canterbury last month was their best performance before battling wins against Sussex at Hove and Northamptonshire at Emerald Headingley.

Those battling qualities have built confidence, but this week will provide them with their biggest test of 2021.

Lancashire are also unbeaten with three wins and three draws, sitting top of Group Three by three points from second-placed Yorkshire.

“You would say that ourselves and Lancashire are probably the two best teams in the group,” said coach Andrew Gale ahead of the Sky Sports televised fixture.

“As I’ve said to the boys, we keep finding a way to get ourselves in winning positions without stringing together anywhere near a perfect performance.

“That’s encouraging, but we can play better.

“It’s going to be a great game of cricket because we’re two evenly matched sides. Two good teams playing with confidence, and it’s a Roses game. That always adds a little bit of extra spice to it.

“Fingers crossed, we can get four days of good weather.”

At the top of Group Three, Lancashire have 101 points from six games, Yorkshire 98 from six, Glamorgan 80 from seven and Northamptonshire 76 from six.

Yorkshire will be without England players Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan and Joe Root, while Lancashire will be without Jimmy Anderson and likely Jos Buttler.

A win for either side would represent a giant step towards a top two finish.

A win for Lancashire would also be their first in Championship cricket over Yorkshire since 2011 and their first at Old Trafford since 2000 when Sourav Ganguly and Darren Lehmann were the overseas players for the Red and White Rose.

Lancashire completed the double over Yorkshire in 2011, but they are winless in nine four-day games since (Yorkshire five wins and four draws). That statistic includes last season’s rainy Bob Willis Trophy draw at Emerald Headingley.

“To go over there and win would be brilliant,” said Yorkshire captain Steve Patterson.

“It’s always a good game against Lancashire, but in the context of the season and the league table there will be some added significance to it.

“They’re a good side with some experience and good young players like we have.

“People have asked me in the past, ‘Is the Roses game the one you look forward to the most?’ And I’ve always said, ‘For myself, it’s all about playing against the best teams and trying to win those games. That’s the biggest challenge there is’.

“I love winning any four-day game. But the fact that they’re at the top and we’re second makes it more valuable. It doesn’t make it more valuable because it’s Lancashire, only because they are top at the moment.

“They’re at the top of the table, and we want to be top at the end of that game.”

A daily crowd in the region of 4,000 will be permitted in Manchester, with Patterson adding: “I’m looking forward to it. But the Scarborough one will be even more special because we will have our own crowd back.

“We always get well supported there, and our fans love to watch us against Lancs.

“Hopefully we get some good weather for both games.”

SQUAD NEWS
Joe Root is unavailable having now joined up with England for the upcoming Test series against New Zealand. All-rounder George Hill comes into the squad, having made 47 and 77 in last week’s Second Eleven game against Nottinghamshire.

Off-spinner Jack Shutt comes into the squad for the first time this year, whilst Dawid Malan has not been included for personal reasons, but is hoping to return for the LV= Insurance County Championship match against Sussex next week.

Matthew Fisher continues his rehabilitation from an abdominal injury.

13-MAN SQUAD TO FACE LANCASHIRE AT OLD TRAFFORD
Gary Ballance
Dom Bess
Harry Brook
Ben Coad
Harry Duke (Wicketkeeper)
George Hill
Tom Kohler-Cadmore
Adam Lyth
Duanne Olivier
Steve Patterson (Captain)
Jack Shutt
Jordan Thompson
David Willey


I'm there 1st and 4th days weather is decent win this and we can almost smell the title!!!!!

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Head Coach Glen Chapple has named a 12-man squad to face Roses rivals Yorkshire, starting tomorrow (27 May) at Emirates Old Trafford.

The squad is unchanged from the weather-affected draw away at Northants, with only James Anderson omitted ahead of joining up with the England Test match bubble later this week.

The Roses Match will be the first red ball meeting between the two rivals since 2018 and is also the first men's First Team fixture with a crowd inside Emirates Old Trafford since September 2019.

Lancashire squad to face Yorkshire
Dane Vilas (c), Tom Bailey, Josh Bohannon, Steven Croft, Alex Davies, Keaton Jennings, Danny Lamb, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Matt Parkinson, Luke Wells, Luke Wood

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Yorkshire win toss bat decent crowd on as well

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9-2 all over them bowling well

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11-4

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57-7 hard not too laugh highly impressive bowling this morning

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Good innings by Duke 121-9

[lancsdes]

You always know Yorkshire tails will wag ; they are “crickiters” as David Lloyd would say,  in the Aussie tradition.

Nevertheless , really good stuff. How good it has been to be so wrong about Tom Bailey. I never thought he would make it in county cricket when I saw him in league cricket. In fairness, my friend David Snellgrove, a damned good league cricketer who had trials with counties, thought the same.

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LV= County Championship Group Three, Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester (day one):
Yorkshire 159: Duke 52, Coad 32*; Bailey 3-6, Lamb 2-26
Lancashire 95-1: Davies 52, Jennings 22*; Olivier 1-27
Lancashire (3 pts) trail Yorkshire (0 pts) by 65 runs

Lancashire took full control on the first day of their Roses fixture against Yorkshire after they bowled the visitors out for just 159.

Alex Davies (52) and Keaton Jennings (22 not out) put on an opening stand of 71 as Lancashire replied with 95-1.

They trail by just 65 runs with nine wickets still in hand at Old Trafford.

Earlier, Tom Bailey claimed 3-6 from his 14 overs with the ball but teenager Harry Duke (52) mounted a fightback for Yorkshire after they slumped to 21-6.

Yorkshire won the toss and decided to bat as Group Three's top two went head-to-head for the first time this season.

But terrific new-ball spells from Bailey and Saqib Mahmood (1-49) had the White Rose in early trouble as Adam Lyth, Will Fraine and Harry Brook all fell cheaply to leave Yorkshire 9-3.

Brook was unfortunately run out when Tom Kohler-Cadmore hesitated over a quick single to Davies at cover off Bailey.

Yorkshire's woes mounted as George Hill, Dom Bess, Kohler-Cadmore and Jordan Thompson all fell before lunch. Danny Lamb (2-26) and Luke Wood (2-51) both claimed two wickets apiece.

But a Yorkshire recovery came in the afternoon as Duke, in just his second first-class appearance survived being dropped twice off Matt Parkinson on 29 and 49 to compile a maiden half-century from 110 balls.

He and Steven Patterson (27) added 77 for the eighth wicket before Ben Coad (32 not out) produced some lusty hits in a last-wicket stand of 38.

Lancashire made the perfect start in their reply as Davies and Jennings took advantage of loose deliveries and rotated the strike.

Davies fell shortly after making a 53-ball half-century when Duanne Olivier had him caught down the leg-side.

That would be Yorkshire's only breakthrough of the evening session as Luke Wells (11 not out) added another 24 runs with Jennings before the close to leave the hosts well on top.


Give them credit for making that score impressed with Duke looks a decent keep as well.
Saq the pick of the bowlers bowled with pace, Bailey excellent as well.
Wood's first spell was good his second was a bouncer spell which got some tap.
Dropped some catches but Lamb took two good ones and Wells at the end was first class
2000 on and the noise as they collapsed in the orning shows you cannot play sport without fans, by the way it's still cold under the point

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Looks like we are going for a very large first innings lead

[exile]

A mistake to send in Livingstone ahead of Vilas, especially when both set batsmen have just been dismissed.  Predictably, he loses patience and gets out to a mistimed slog.

[werneth]

May 28, 2021 14:41:21 GMT exile said:

A mistake to send in Livingstone ahead of Vilas, especially when both set batsmen have just been dismissed.  Predictably, he loses patience and gets out to a mistimed slog.

Livingstone was always going to come in ahead of Vilas as he did in the previous match in which they both batted. I don't see that you can shuffle the order just because two wickets have gone quickly.

But I do think Vilas would be justified in beating Livingstone over the head with his bat for throwing his wicket away like that in a situation which had been set to bat on to a big lead. I don't excuse it as a loss of patience – he has thrown his wicket away in all four innings he has played this season.

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May 28, 2021 14:57:42 GMT werneth said:

May 28, 2021 14:41:21 GMT exile said:

A mistake to send in Livingstone ahead of Vilas, especially when both set batsmen have just been dismissed.  Predictably, he loses patience and gets out to a mistimed slog.

Livingstone was always going to come in ahead of Vilas as he did in the previous match in which they both batted. I don't see that you can shuffle the order just because two wickets have gone quickly.

But I do think Vilas would be justified in beating Livingstone over the head with his bat for throwing his wicket away like that in a situation which had been set to bat on to a big lead. I don't excuse it as a loss of patience – he has thrown his wicket away in all four innings he has played this season.

Maybe the order is wrong?  You can't bat regularly at 5 if you're not prepared to get your head down and I certainly wasn't excusing him.  Livingstone seems to combine enormous talent with a lack of basic common sense.  Presumably he's been watching the game and noticed that it takes a while for batsmen to get themselves in on this pitch, added to which the Yorkshire bowlers have finally found some rhythm and the ball is new.  To make matters worse, he got out to a ball that should have disappeared over mid-wicket!     

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Hard watching the 1st session compared to the excitement of yesterday. Very dull. Didn't recognise many of the names on the Yorkshire team which I understand is short of the usual players e.g. Malan. Livingstone needs a rest from cricket I think he was playing somewhere throughout the winter. I'd bring back Croft the the final two BT games.
Guess we will bat on...

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Slightly confused watching when we got to the 120 over which I thought they still had for bonus points that we were 6 runs short and did not go for the extra point, it may be they have changed the number of overs but always thought it was 120.
Grinding them out of the game thought the young lad Hill bowled well at the end as regards Livingstone personally think he's stuck between being a white ball cricketer more than a red ball player. Has the talent but in the longer version seems quite content with a quick 40, no doubt will lose him for the white ball series


Yorkshire 159: Duke 52; Bailey 3-6, Lamb 2-26
Lancashire 350-6: Jennings 114, Wells 60, Davies 52; Thompson 3-64
Lancashire (6 pts) lead Yorkshire (1 pt) by 191 runs

A century from Keaton Jennings helped Lancashire build a commanding lead over Yorkshire and ensure they maintain control of the Roses match.

Jennings (114) struck his fourth first-class ton for the Red Rose and the 19th of his career as the hosts pressed on from 95-1 overnight to close on 350-6.

They lead by 191 runs with four wickets still in hand as Yorkshire toiled with the ball on the second day.

Luke Wells (60) and Josh Bohannon (47 not out) also impressed with the bat.

England international Jennings' first century of the season included 14 fours in a five-and-a-half hour stay at the crease at Old Trafford.

His 175-run partnership with Wells for the second wicket helped Lancashire back up their strong first-day performance with the ball to take full control in the meeting of Group Three's top two sides.

Jennings eventually departed to Ben Coad as Adam Lyth clung on to a low chance at first slip, the first of three wickets falling for six runs to leave them 252-4.

But skipper Dane Vilas (35) and Bohannon added 57 for the fifth wicket to take them beyond 300 before their lead approached 200 by stumps thanks to Luke Wood (7) and Danny Lamb (4 not out) playing support roles.

Jordan Thompson (3-64) was the pick of Yorkshire's bowlers with Coad (2-65) taking the other two wickets to fall during the day.