Lancashire v Yorkshire: County Championship Division One - Yorkshire's First Innings Recap
Lancashire had reached a decent first innings total of 328 runs against Yorkshire, in a match of the County Championship Division One, at the Headingley, Leeds in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
However, the hosts struggled once they came out to bat on second day’s play, on Thursday, July 21, 2011. The team was bowled out for 239, but things could have been worse for them, as they were in deep trouble at one stage of the innings.
Yorkshire had lost eight wickets for just 45 runs on the board and looked certain to be all-out below 100. The team was rescued from trouble by a spectacular batting performance by lower-order batsmen http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RJ-Sidebottom-c2333.
Pyrah top scored the innings with 117 runs whereas Sidebottom also played a crucial role in guiding the team’s total above 200 in the end. He collected 52 vital runs for his side.
The pitch was good for batting, but there was some swing for the quicker bowlers due to the cloud cover over the field. This allowed the visitors to gain solid control of the match, but they would have been disappointed to some extent after not being able
to dismiss the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867 batsmen below 100.
The hosts went off to a bad start, losing their opening batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Lumb-c1981 Root early. The seasoned campaigner failed to open his account and had to take the long walk back to the pavilion.
South Africa’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jacques-Rudolph-c1619 looked solid in the middle, but failed to make a big impression in the innings. He was sent back to the pavilion after adding just 12 runs to the total.
Yorkshire’s captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kyle-Hogg-c1824, who failed to take three in three.
However, this was not the only chance for Hogg to grab a hat-trick, as he dismissed two more batsmen on consecutive balls. Wicketkeeper batsman Jony Bairstow and middle-order player http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gary-Ballance-c1465 got out for seven and zero respectively, but Hogg once again
failed to take a wicket on the third consecutive delivery.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Shahzad-c874, who got out after adding just four runs to the total.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anthony-McGrath-c45053 was the eight wicket to fall in the innings after scoring 15 runs and the hosts were in tatters at 45/8.
However, Pyrah and Sidebottom scored a terrific 154-run stand for the ninth wicket, rescuing their side from disaster. They scored 117 and 52 runs before being dismissed.
Hogg did a fabulous job for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lancashire-c806, picking up five wickets in the innings.
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