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| County cricket – as it happened | County cricket – as it happened |
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| Richard Gibson reports from Headingley | Richard Gibson reports from Headingley |
| Controversy at Headingley where Warwickshire’s reserve wicketkeeper Pete McKay scooped up an edge offered by Cheteshwar Pujara from Boyd Rankin’s second delivery from the Rugby Stand End. Rankin stifled his appeal in the belief that McKay had fluffed the opportunity but the visitors claimed the dismissal after Tim Ambrose’s deputy grabbed the rebound low down. | Controversy at Headingley where Warwickshire’s reserve wicketkeeper Pete McKay scooped up an edge offered by Cheteshwar Pujara from Boyd Rankin’s second delivery from the Rugby Stand End. Rankin stifled his appeal in the belief that McKay had fluffed the opportunity but the visitors claimed the dismissal after Tim Ambrose’s deputy grabbed the rebound low down. |
| Umpires Steve Garratt and Jeremy Lloyds conversed for some time - while Warwickshire captain Varun Chopra conversed with opposite number Andrew Gale at the non-striker’s end - before Garratt raised the finger to a crescendo of boos. It was the second wicket Yorkshire lost on 88, following Will Rhodes’ mishit to mid-on off Jeetan Patel. | Umpires Steve Garratt and Jeremy Lloyds conversed for some time - while Warwickshire captain Varun Chopra conversed with opposite number Andrew Gale at the non-striker’s end - before Garratt raised the finger to a crescendo of boos. It was the second wicket Yorkshire lost on 88, following Will Rhodes’ mishit to mid-on off Jeetan Patel. |
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| Ali Martin | Ali Martin |
| Ali Martin reports from The Oval | Ali Martin reports from The Oval |
| Greeting from the Oval, somewhat belatedly, where Essex are going great guns on day two. Their openers are still standing, with Nick Browne on 82, Jaik Mickelburgh on 59 and the score 151 for no loss. Surrey were earlier skittled for 340, losing their last three wickets for nowt. But then you knew that, right? | Greeting from the Oval, somewhat belatedly, where Essex are going great guns on day two. Their openers are still standing, with Nick Browne on 82, Jaik Mickelburgh on 59 and the score 151 for no loss. Surrey were earlier skittled for 340, losing their last three wickets for nowt. But then you knew that, right? |
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| Richard Gibson | Richard Gibson |
| Richard Gibson reports | Richard Gibson reports |
| A player with the career longevity of Tim Bresnan should probably have more five-wicket hauls than the seven he has managed in first-class cricket. The seventh came up shortly after lunch on day two when Jeetan Patel’s cameo came to an end via a bunt to deep mid-off. There was also a career milestone for James Middlebrook, who claimed his 50th scalp for Yorkshire in dismissing Ian Westwood for 196. | A player with the career longevity of Tim Bresnan should probably have more five-wicket hauls than the seven he has managed in first-class cricket. The seventh came up shortly after lunch on day two when Jeetan Patel’s cameo came to an end via a bunt to deep mid-off. There was also a career milestone for James Middlebrook, who claimed his 50th scalp for Yorkshire in dismissing Ian Westwood for 196. |
| Bresnan finished with 30-10-85-5, arguably his best bowling performance since losing his England Test place, while Middlebrook’s moonlighting was worth three for 96. Warwickshire made 435. | Bresnan finished with 30-10-85-5, arguably his best bowling performance since losing his England Test place, while Middlebrook’s moonlighting was worth three for 96. Warwickshire made 435. |
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| Vic Marks | Vic Marks |
| So much for the rejected England openers... | So much for the rejected England openers... |
| Sam Robson edged the second ball of the day into the slip cordon; Nick Compton, having looked in princely form, was given out caught behind. He really did not want to go, standing statuesque and disbelieving, before finally returning to the pavilion. Umpire Alex Wharf had spied an inside edge. | Sam Robson edged the second ball of the day into the slip cordon; Nick Compton, having looked in princely form, was given out caught behind. He really did not want to go, standing statuesque and disbelieving, before finally returning to the pavilion. Umpire Alex Wharf had spied an inside edge. |
| The wicket-taker on both occasions was Lewis Gregory, who has a tendency to take more wickets than bowl maidens, which makes him a bowler worth watching. He is being seriously considered for England’s squad to play against Ireland on May 8th – even though most of his success in the last twelve months has come with a red ball. | The wicket-taker on both occasions was Lewis Gregory, who has a tendency to take more wickets than bowl maidens, which makes him a bowler worth watching. He is being seriously considered for England’s squad to play against Ireland on May 8th – even though most of his success in the last twelve months has come with a red ball. |
| For Middlesex Nick Gubbins is having a better day. He dropped a sitter yesterday when Hildreth was batting. But he has looked impressive today, a composed no-nonsense left-hander. His route to the Middlesex first team has a familiar feel; it is via Radley College (like Andrew Strauss, Ben Hutton and Jamie Dalrymple). He has just posted his half-century with a sweet drive against Peter Trego. | For Middlesex Nick Gubbins is having a better day. He dropped a sitter yesterday when Hildreth was batting. But he has looked impressive today, a composed no-nonsense left-hander. His route to the Middlesex first team has a familiar feel; it is via Radley College (like Andrew Strauss, Ben Hutton and Jamie Dalrymple). He has just posted his half-century with a sweet drive against Peter Trego. |
| Herewith ends an early lunchtime report. This is the day when I allow myself the carvery, which has earnt a glowing reputation on the county circuit. And it pays to get down there promptly. Will be back shortly if there’s a hatrick. Otherwise see you after lunch. | Herewith ends an early lunchtime report. This is the day when I allow myself the carvery, which has earnt a glowing reputation on the county circuit. And it pays to get down there promptly. Will be back shortly if there’s a hatrick. Otherwise see you after lunch. |
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| Richard Gibson | Richard Gibson |
| Richard Gibson reports from Headingley | Richard Gibson reports from Headingley |
| Ian Westwood has his career-best score in Warwickshire’s 350-5 at Headingley, and needs only a further nine runs for a maiden double hundred. The left-hander’s progress this morning has been at a similar pace to that of day one. | Ian Westwood has his career-best score in Warwickshire’s 350-5 at Headingley, and needs only a further nine runs for a maiden double hundred. The left-hander’s progress this morning has been at a similar pace to that of day one. |
| Pete McKay, his overnight partner, perished without adding to his total when Tim Bresnan curved one back into the left-hander but with wickets difficult to collect Yorkshire squandered a second bowling point courtesy of Alex Lees flooring a low chance at first slip created by teenage seamer Matthew Fisher. Rikki Clarke had just a dozen at that stage; he is now into the 30s. | Pete McKay, his overnight partner, perished without adding to his total when Tim Bresnan curved one back into the left-hander but with wickets difficult to collect Yorkshire squandered a second bowling point courtesy of Alex Lees flooring a low chance at first slip created by teenage seamer Matthew Fisher. Rikki Clarke had just a dozen at that stage; he is now into the 30s. |
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| Gary Naylor | Gary Naylor |
| Some late-morning reading from Gary Naylor, who has six talking points from last week’s matches in the County Championship: | Some late-morning reading from Gary Naylor, who has six talking points from last week’s matches in the County Championship: |
| County cricket: the week’s final over | County cricket: the week’s final over |
| Ball one: Ajmal Shahzad is the hero for SussexBall two: Yorkshire needs Adil Rashid and Rashid needs cricketBall three: Warwickshire’s old pros raise old questionsBall four: Is Steven Davies about to show us what he can do?Ball five: Glen Chapple sits back as Kyle Jarvis sends Lancashire topBall six: There’s room for the match report as essay | Ball one: Ajmal Shahzad is the hero for SussexBall two: Yorkshire needs Adil Rashid and Rashid needs cricketBall three: Warwickshire’s old pros raise old questionsBall four: Is Steven Davies about to show us what he can do?Ball five: Glen Chapple sits back as Kyle Jarvis sends Lancashire topBall six: There’s room for the match report as essay |
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| Vic Marks | Vic Marks |
| Expecting a more serene day today after yesterday’s fireworks. There is the prospect of two recent England opening batsmen demonstrating that they should not have been rejected. Sam Robson is at the crease, Nick Compton has his pads on in the pavilion. | Expecting a more serene day today after yesterday’s fireworks. There is the prospect of two recent England opening batsmen demonstrating that they should not have been rejected. Sam Robson is at the crease, Nick Compton has his pads on in the pavilion. |
| Yesterday’s technicolour action has brought a good crowd in. There is sunshine alongside a chill wind and an intriguing day awaits. I was going to meander gently through the prospects but Lewis Gregory has just bowled Robson with his second ball. Enter Compo! | Yesterday’s technicolour action has brought a good crowd in. There is sunshine alongside a chill wind and an intriguing day awaits. I was going to meander gently through the prospects but Lewis Gregory has just bowled Robson with his second ball. Enter Compo! |
| In the committee room there is Harry Latchman, the Middlesex president, and Allan Arthur Jones, the former umpire, has popped in. Who could he be supporting? Middlesex, Somerset? After all he played for both counties, plus Glamorgan and Sussex (I think that’s the lot) | In the committee room there is Harry Latchman, the Middlesex president, and Allan Arthur Jones, the former umpire, has popped in. Who could he be supporting? Middlesex, Somerset? After all he played for both counties, plus Glamorgan and Sussex (I think that’s the lot) |
| Anyway Compo has started to dig in… | Anyway Compo has started to dig in… |
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| Richard Gibson | Richard Gibson |
| Richard Gibson sets up the day from Headlingley | Richard Gibson sets up the day from Headlingley |
| Top of the morning to you all, on a glorious morning in Leeds. It was a lovely drive in this morning and the addition of four rose-shaped floodlights means I can now see the ground as I drop down into Meanwood on my journey. | Top of the morning to you all, on a glorious morning in Leeds. It was a lovely drive in this morning and the addition of four rose-shaped floodlights means I can now see the ground as I drop down into Meanwood on my journey. |
| I am back to take in the second day of the contest between the top two from 2014, although due to England calls and injuries these are quite different looking teams. Yorkshire are without seven first-choice players while Warwickshire are missing four with a strained buttock muscle accounting for Tim Ambrose, leaving him on the sidelines along with another injury victim Chris Woakes. Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott are on the Test tour of the Caribbean, of course. | I am back to take in the second day of the contest between the top two from 2014, although due to England calls and injuries these are quite different looking teams. Yorkshire are without seven first-choice players while Warwickshire are missing four with a strained buttock muscle accounting for Tim Ambrose, leaving him on the sidelines along with another injury victim Chris Woakes. Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott are on the Test tour of the Caribbean, of course. |
| On first-day evidence this is an excruciatingly flat pitch and Ian Westwood cashed in with only his second Championship hundred since August 2012. Yorkshire bowled with purpose but the lack of pace in the surface made prising batsmen out hard work. Tim Bresnan, with a realigned position on the bowling crease (no jumping in from wide any more), was the pick with three of the four wickets to fall in 270-4. | On first-day evidence this is an excruciatingly flat pitch and Ian Westwood cashed in with only his second Championship hundred since August 2012. Yorkshire bowled with purpose but the lack of pace in the surface made prising batsmen out hard work. Tim Bresnan, with a realigned position on the bowling crease (no jumping in from wide any more), was the pick with three of the four wickets to fall in 270-4. |
| Elsewhere, Vic Marks returns to Somerset v Middlesex, where he is no doubt hoping for a mundane follow-up to yesterday’s mania, if only to have some time to reflect. In case, you missed it, Somerset appeared set for an opening day score pushing 500 when Marcus Trescothick and James Hildreth were in tandem, only for a spectacular nosedive which incorporated seven wickets going down for 31 runs to see them dismissed for 408 by Middlesex. | Elsewhere, Vic Marks returns to Somerset v Middlesex, where he is no doubt hoping for a mundane follow-up to yesterday’s mania, if only to have some time to reflect. In case, you missed it, Somerset appeared set for an opening day score pushing 500 when Marcus Trescothick and James Hildreth were in tandem, only for a spectacular nosedive which incorporated seven wickets going down for 31 runs to see them dismissed for 408 by Middlesex. |
| And Ali Martin is at the Kia Oval, where that scourge of international batsmen Jesse Ryder was at it again yesterday. His culling of innings by Kev and Kumar in a three-wicket display taking his first-class bowling record in English conditions to 53 victims at 17.97 runs apiece. | And Ali Martin is at the Kia Oval, where that scourge of international batsmen Jesse Ryder was at it again yesterday. His culling of innings by Kev and Kumar in a three-wicket display taking his first-class bowling record in English conditions to 53 victims at 17.97 runs apiece. |
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| Morning all, | Morning all, |
| Today we have Vic Marks at Somerset v Middlesex, Richard Gibson at Yorkshire v Warwickshire and Ali Martin at Surrey v Essex. | Today we have Vic Marks at Somerset v Middlesex, Richard Gibson at Yorkshire v Warwickshire and Ali Martin at Surrey v Essex. |
| Here are the reports from yesterday: | Here are the reports from yesterday: |
| Somerset v Middlesex | Somerset v Middlesex |
| Somerset leave Middlesex sweating after Marcus Trescothick’s 140The scorecard suggests an extraordinary day’s play and it does not lie. There were two big hundreds for Marcus Trescothick and James Hildreth, five ducks leaving an unhappy quintet of Somerset batsmen contemplating a pair and a flurry of wickets for James Harris. Two batsmen plus extras contributed 360 runs, the other nine 48 runs. Championship cricket dull? Not if you asked any of a good, anoraked crowd at Taunton, where Somerset flogged the visiting bowlers for five hours before subsiding from 377-3 to 408 all out in the final session. | Somerset leave Middlesex sweating after Marcus Trescothick’s 140The scorecard suggests an extraordinary day’s play and it does not lie. There were two big hundreds for Marcus Trescothick and James Hildreth, five ducks leaving an unhappy quintet of Somerset batsmen contemplating a pair and a flurry of wickets for James Harris. Two batsmen plus extras contributed 360 runs, the other nine 48 runs. Championship cricket dull? Not if you asked any of a good, anoraked crowd at Taunton, where Somerset flogged the visiting bowlers for five hours before subsiding from 377-3 to 408 all out in the final session. |
| Yorkshire v Warwickshire | Yorkshire v Warwickshire |
| Yorkshire on back foot as Ian Westwood hits 151 not outJames Middlebrook’s shock return to Yorkshire colours mirrored the statistical yield of his previous County Championship appearance for them at Headingley. Middlebrook, a 37-year-old free agent released by relegated Northamptonshire seven months ago, was drafted in by the reigning champions after their request for Adil Rashid to be released from England’s Test tour of the Caribbean was declined. Wicketless against Kent on his farewell during the club’s previous Division One-winning season in 2001, he failed to claim the single victim required to take his first-class tally for Yorkshire to 50. | Yorkshire on back foot as Ian Westwood hits 151 not outJames Middlebrook’s shock return to Yorkshire colours mirrored the statistical yield of his previous County Championship appearance for them at Headingley. Middlebrook, a 37-year-old free agent released by relegated Northamptonshire seven months ago, was drafted in by the reigning champions after their request for Adil Rashid to be released from England’s Test tour of the Caribbean was declined. Wicketless against Kent on his farewell during the club’s previous Division One-winning season in 2001, he failed to claim the single victim required to take his first-class tally for Yorkshire to 50. |
| Surrey v Essex | Surrey v Essex |
| Surrey make strong start but Kevin Pietersen out for only 32From the most pedestrian of run-ups and the loosest of actions, the gentle medium pace of Jesse Ryder can be devastating. Just ask Kevin Pietersen, who was the first of two wickets in three balls for the New Zealander as Essex tried desperately to wrest control from Surrey on day one at the Kia Oval. Ryder, who is 15 months into a self-imposed hiatus from international cricket, claimed three for 52 from 18 overs as the hosts reached an impressive 293 for five by stumps, despite losing the toss and being put in on a day when overcast conditions necessitated the use of floodlights. | Surrey make strong start but Kevin Pietersen out for only 32From the most pedestrian of run-ups and the loosest of actions, the gentle medium pace of Jesse Ryder can be devastating. Just ask Kevin Pietersen, who was the first of two wickets in three balls for the New Zealander as Essex tried desperately to wrest control from Surrey on day one at the Kia Oval. Ryder, who is 15 months into a self-imposed hiatus from international cricket, claimed three for 52 from 18 overs as the hosts reached an impressive 293 for five by stumps, despite losing the toss and being put in on a day when overcast conditions necessitated the use of floodlights. |
| Enjoy the cricket. | Enjoy the cricket. |
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