Yorkshire 276 for 3 (Lyth 97, Root 65*, Brook 44*, Masood 40) vs Derbyshire
When dangerous mild intervened simply earlier than 4pm – there was no additional play as rain adopted – Root was 65 not out and Brook 44.
Root was accumulative in 99 balls and Brook rather more aggressive – savage even – in 37 in opposition to a wilting Derbyshire assault, pissed off by 4 dropped catches both aspect of lunch, together with Lyth on 22 and 80.
All the catches went down behind the wicket, three within the slips, and it may have been a very totally different story had Derbyshire been capable of expose Yorkshire’s famous person duo to a a lot newer ball.
The 2 counties got here into this fixture stage on 28 factors after three video games in direction of the foot of the desk. Yorkshire had drawn two and misplaced one, the latter in opposition to Middlesex at Lord’s final week. Derbyshire had drawn all three.
Batting was not straightforward in overcast situations with motion by means of the air and off the pitch
Regardless of creating probabilities, Derbyshire weren’t at their finest with the ball, providing up too many boundary alternatives.
The primary wicket to fall had a whiff of controversy about it. Fin Bean was trapped lbw by Anuj Dal for 18 – 46 for 1 at the beginning of the fifteenth over – the ball after he had picked up three to long-on on the finish of the earlier over.
Replays have proven that fielder Pat Brown slid into the rope making an attempt to save lots of the boundary, however the name of three runs stood. Had it been given 4, Bean wouldn’t have been on strike to the ball he fell to.
Within the grand scheme of the day, it mattered little as Bean’s opening companion, Lyth, led the best way on Yorkshire’s dominant day.
Lyth was sturdy on each side of the wicket in hitting 15 fours in 157 balls, narrowly lacking out on a 3rd century in 4 Championship matches this season when he edged Zak Chappell behind, leaving Yorkshire 205 for 3 within the afternoon.
Chappell was one of many Derbyshire bowlers taken to process by Masood throughout an action-packed morning. At one stage, he hit seven fours in 10 balls throughout two overs from Dal and Chappell, taking Yorkshire to 89 for 1 after 20 overs. Masood then edged left-arm seamer Luis Reece’s second ball to second slip – 92 for two within the twenty second.
From there, Lyth and Root shared 113 inside 27 overs for the third wicket.
Root’s innings was in full distinction to Masood’s as he hit simply two fours by the point he reached 40.
Later, Brook was much more aggressive than Masood. He drove with energy and precision and lofted Reece for a straight six.
Not that Root was fully becalmed. Having reached an 86-ball fifty through the latter phases of the afternoon, he reverse swept Alex Thomson’s off-spin for 4.
The climate got here lower than two overs later, at the very least giving Derbyshire some respite.
