Yorkshire had added only 11 to their overnight score when Craig Overton found a way past the outside edge of Fin Bean’s defensive push and bowled him for 12. It was 43-2 when Adam Lyth aimed a loose drive at the same bowler and edged through to wicketkeeper James Rew.<\/p>\n
That was as good as it got for Somerset in the morning session on a now unresponsive pitch. <\/p>\n
Root survived a huge lbw shout from a Lewis Gregory delivery on two and, having added 10, edged Migael Pretorius just short of Overton at second slip.<\/p>\n
But, with Wharton in confident mood from the outset, the pair were soon looking comfortable, forcing Somerset to change to spin in the 26th over. <\/p>\n
Root greeted the introduction of Archie Vaughan’s off-spin with a reverse swept four that brought up the half-century stand.<\/p>\n
A cover driven boundary by Root off Vaughan wiped out Yorkshire’s first-innings deficit and put them two runs ahead. <\/p>\n
By lunch, that advantage had grown to 28 with the total 140-2. Root reached a 79-ball fifty soon after the interval and Wharton followed to the same landmark off 99 deliveries, having lost nothing in comparison with his illustrious team-mate.<\/p>\n
It was a major surprise when, with the score advanced to 166-2, Root failed to connect with a drive off a full-length ball from Overton, who celebrated extravagantly when the stumps were disturbed. <\/p>\n
The Somerset man then went for 21 off an over as Wharton responded to losing his partner with a boundary barrage and Jonny Bairstow quickly went on the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yorkshire had added only 11 to their overnight score when Craig Overton found a way past the outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-647711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}