Warwickshire totally dominated the second day at Edgbaston to take control against Yorkshire in a gripping County Championship tussle.<\/p>\n
Having had much the better of day one, Yorkshire resumed on the second morning on 110-4 but were 152 all out after the dismissal of Harry Brook (40) triggered the loss of six wickets for 15 runs in 15 overs. <\/p>\n
Their chief tormentors were former White Rose players Olly Hannon-Dalby (4-38) and Jordan Thompson (3-14).<\/p>\n
Trailing by just five when a much bigger deficit had seemed likely, Warwickshire then advanced to 267-3 in their second innings thanks to Rob Yates (81), Dan Mousley (70) and Sam Hain (43 not out).<\/p>\n
The pitch eased slightly, but the freer run-scoring had more to do with more judicious batting and less disciplined bowling than was evident in the first four sessions.<\/p>\n
In the morning, Brook and Jonny Bairstow (25) took their side to within 10 of Warwickshire’s total before falling in successive overs. <\/p>\n
Both times the off-stump landed halfway back to the wicketkeeper as Brook missed a drive at Ethan Bamber and Bairstow shouldered arms to Hannon-Dalby.<\/p>\n
Warwickshire’s seamers maintained the pressure just as impressively as Yorkshire’s had on the first day. <\/p>\n
They received top-drawer support from second slip where Yates took catches off Hannon-Dalby, Thompson and Ed Barnard to account for three of the last four wickets.<\/p>\n
The last, a one-handed grab at full stretch to his right to oust Jack White and provide Thompson’s 200th first-class wicket, rounded off a sensational session for the home side.<\/p>\n
Such had been the clatter of wickets that a five-over session before lunch appeared an awkward test for home openers Yates and Alex Davies. <\/p>\n
They negotiated that and went on to add 95 in 29 overs before Davies (38) leading-edged Matt Revis to extra cover.<\/p>\n
Yates reached a 67-ball half-century with his 10th four, flicked off his pads towards the building site where a new stand will be named after the great Dennis Amiss, but finally fell to a fine lifting ball from White which he edged to first slip.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire’s bowlers could not emulate the pressure of the previous day, however and Mousley and Hain added 82 in 24 overs.<\/p>\n
Mousley eventually top-edged a pull at Logan van Beek to fine leg but Warwickshire have built a position from which they will aim to dictate the rest of the game. <\/p>\n
The question facing them, when pondering a declaration, will be how much has the pitch flattened out? With the likes of Brooks and Bairstow in their batting line-up, Yorkshire remain well in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warwickshire totally dominated the second day at Edgbaston to take control against Yorkshire in a gripping County Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-660976","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\/660976","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=660976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}