Durham in firm control against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867: County Championship Division One
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, on Monday, June 20, 2011.
The visitors require 210 runs to avoid an innings defeat on the final day’s play today, on Tuesday, June 21, 2011.
However, the positive thing for them is that they still have 10 wickets remaining in their second innings.
Yorkshire will be looking to improve on their first innings performance, in which they were bowled out for just 185 runs. The team was put into bat by the home team’s captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Phil-Mustard-c2183. The decision proved to be a very good one for Durham, as the visitors
failed to make an impression.
None of the Yorkshire batsmen were able to score a half-century in the first innings and the top scorer was lower-order player, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adil-Usman-Rashid-c42011. He scored 47 runs in the innings, which helped his side get closer to 200.
The home team’s pacers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lachlan-G-Oswald-Jacobs-c72095 for them. The first day was washed away due to rain, which
left some moisture under the wicket.
Durham started their innings on the third day’s play, but their openers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Will-Smith-c2794 failed to get going and were dismissed early. They scored five and 13 in their respective outings.
The hosts’ third-drop, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-Benkenstein-c1302, who only managed five runs in his
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 stay at the crease.
Things looked bad for the Durham team, but former England’s Twenty20 skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-David-Blackwell-c63797, who scored 28 runs.
A 113-run stand between Collingwood and Mustard gave an edge to the home team. The solid stand was finally broken with the dismissal of the Durham’s captain, who played very well for his 70 runs.
Collingwood top scored the innings with 108 runs with the help of 12 fours. He had been out of form in the recent past, but came back strongly with this century.
An unbeaten 67 from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scott-George-Borthwick-c89027 guided Durham’s total to 408/8 before the innings was declared.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Steven-Patterson-c2585 took three wickets for Yorkshire in the day, but didn’t get much support from the other bowlers.
At http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Close-c51347 of play on day-three, the visitors were 13/0 and will look to survive the final day’s play.
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