Yorkshire advanced to 124 for 2 in their second innings
Posted in General on 17. Aug, 2010
Yorkshire advanced to 124 for 2 in their second innings.n There was no play due to rain at Cardiff yesterday in the match between Glamorgan and Hampshire.. The 26-year-old England all-rounder has not played since sustaining the injury in Derbyshire’s opening Championship match of the season against Kent at Canterbury and there were fears that a further scan had all but ruled him out for the rest of the summer.
But the Derbyshire general manager, Stuart Edwards, confirmed yesterday: “He is under treatment at the moment which is on-going but we are hoping he will be back training in the next couple of weeks and back playing for Derbyshire.”Should Cork, who was ruled out of England’s Texaco Trophy plans last week, return in the next fortnight he is unlikely to be available for England until at least the second Test, which starts at Lord’s on 19 June.Cork missed England’s winter tour to Zimbabwe because of family problems and then suffered a miserable time in New Zealand, taking only seven wickets in the three-Test series.But he is hopeful of continuing his work with the former England all- rounder Ian Botham, who has agreed to help him with his bowling action once he has recovered, as he attempts to reclaim his England place this summer ahead of next winter’s tour to West Indies.At Taunton in the County Championship yesterday, the Australian batsman, Darren Lehman, continued his run of form, ending with 177 as Yorkshire put on 306 against Somerset after starting the day on 183 for 5 Somerset then reached 203 for 5 before declaring. Dominic Cork is hoping to launch his comeback in the next couple of weeks after undergoing intensive treatment for a troublesome groin injury. Then Dowman, who had coped better than most with Malcolm in the first innings, retired when struck on the elbow by Andrew Harris.At that stage Nottinghamshire could ill-afford another mishap, but soon afterwards Paul Johnson, attempting a single, was run out by Harris’ direct hit.Usman Afzaal’s remarkable run of success came to an end when he got the faintest of edges to Kevin Dean’s outswinger and Nottinghamshire found themselves at 43 for 4, which was effectively 43 for 7, and on this pitch there was no hiding place.By now much of Derbyshire’s appealing seemed cynical and orchestrated, as if influenced by one or two decisions during their innings.Chris Adams, for one, looked particularly nonplussed to be given out leg-before to Bowen, despite getting in a good forward stride, though one of the medium-pacer’s virtues is that he bowls from close to the stumps.That, plus his ability to move the ball either way from a full length, makes him the sort of bowler who could turn out to be an underestimated surprise package, particularly if this season continues to be damp.. Instead, they collected yet another injury, to their makeshift opener Matthew Dowman, and to borrow an old theatrical saying there would hardly have been a dry eye in the place as the remnants of their batting struggle for survival.
As invariably happens, not much else went their way, either when they embarked on the strictly notional task of making 245 to win after a disciplined performance by their seam attack had dismissed Derbyshire for 117.This owed as much to some accurate bowling by Kevin Evans and Mark Bowen, who had match figures of 11 for 109, as to some variable batting, though with the ball moving about and bouncing unevenly, locating the middle of the bat was not exactly straightforward.The bounce from the new ball tended to be steeper and sharper and with both their specialist openers, Tim Robinson and Paul Pollard, nursing damaged hands, the home side knew they were in for a bumpy ride.It took Devon Malcolm a while to find the right line, but the moment he did so he was too sharp for Ashley Metcalfe. Derbyshire 319 and 117 Nottinghamshire 192 and 122-5
Nottinghamshire needed a degree of sympathy and something resembling a miracle here yesterday.
He is no mug with the bat and his only false stroke came when he was on 77, Vasbert Drakes holding on to a catch but toppling over the rope to give the batsman six.Another costly drop was perpetrated a little earlier by the unfortunate Mark Newell at square-leg who got both hands to a shot by Phillips when the 22-year-old had made just 19, but failed to hang on to the ball.. On the way he had ensured that Phillips completed an unusual double. Having taken a career-best 5 for 47 in the Sussex first innings, he scored his maiden first-class half-century, finishing unbeaten on 65.But the day belonged to Marsh – he even took a stunning catch to dismiss Radford when Sussex began the long road to rescuing the game.Kent’s batting has come under fearful stick of late and four wickets went down for the addition of 39 runs before Marsh stepped in. Marsh had been batting for the best part of five hours, hitting three sixes and 13 fours off the 216 balls faced.
In the end it was as much exhaustion on Marsh’s part that finished things, when he skied a ball and Toby Radford ran in from the boundary to take the catch. Their stand of 183 is the second- highest by a last wicket pair in Kent’s history, bettered only by Frank Woolley and Arthur Fielder’s 235 against Worcestershire in 1909, and the sixth highest in the County Championship.Sussex tried everything to break it including 17 bowling changes. He was not to leave it for more than three hours.By that time the tenth wicket pair had passed Kent’s previous partnership best of 89 against Sussex, made 111 years ago. Not unless they have someone who can take the bowling by the scruff of the neck as Marsh did on his way to a career-best 142.Strang may have scored only 17, but when he was out shortly before lunch he had helped add 60 for the ninth wicket That brought Phillips to the crease. Their captain, Steve Marsh, accompanied first by Paul Strang, then the inexperienced Ben Phillips, inspired a startling recovery, hauling Kent around from a parlous 197 for 8 into a seemingly impregnable position, which left Sussex needing 422 to win in three and a bit sessions.The only glimmer of hope for Sussex is that in 1991 they scored 436 in the fourth innings to tie a Championship match at Hove against the same opponents Victory is certainly feasible, but unlikely.