Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nWill Luxton posted a maiden first-class century as Yorkshire made a dominant start to their County Championship match against Warwickshire at Scarborough.<\/p>\n
Luxton, 23, is a North Marine Road regular. This is his 13th career Championship appearance for the White Rose and his fifth at this venue, and his 167 off 261 balls underpinned their 386-6 from 96 overs.<\/p>\n
He has now scored two first-team centuries, both against Warwickshire. His other – 105 not out – came in a One-Day Cup win in 2024.<\/p>\n
Luxton, who reached his century with a slog-swept six against spin just before tea, shared first-, second-, fourth- and fifth-wicket partnerships of 102, 90, 94 and 74 with Adam Lyth, Sam Whiteman, Matthew Revis and Jonny Bairstow. The latter trio contributed 55, 40 and 49 not out respectively.<\/p>\n
These two counties had each won two games from six coming into this fixture and were separated by only 15 points in a tightly bunched Division One table. Warwickshire were third, Yorkshire eighth.<\/p>\n
Although on first evidence this looks a decent batting pitch, it is not a featherbed. There is a green tinge to it, for example.<\/p>\n
It was no real surprise when Bears’ captain Ed Barnard, who struck twice with his seamers, elected to bowl upon winning the toss. But the visiting attack largely struggled for consistency.<\/p>\n
There was some – but not significant – assistance via extra bounce and swing.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire reached at 118-1 at lunch, and Luxton was strong through the off-side off both front and back foot en-route to a 78-ball fifty – his first of the season in all formats.<\/p>\n
Barnard had Lyth caught behind tentatively pushing forwards for 29 as the score fell to 102-1.<\/p>\n
Frustratingly for the Bears, however, Luxton found another left-handed partner in Whiteman, who has missed the past three Championship matches and the first half of the T20 Blast through injury.<\/p>\n
Western Australia captain Whiteman scored a century in his last appearance against Sussex at Headingley in late April.<\/p>\n
He worked the ball off his pads particularly nicely here before being stumped down leg having advanced at Warwickshire’s spin-bowling debutant Manav Suthar, the Indian Test left-armer to leave Yorkshire on 192-2.<\/p>\n
A six-minute rain delay followed immediately.<\/p>\n
Barnard then claimed his second wicket when James Wharton was brilliantly caught behind one-handed diving to his right by Alex Davies as the score slipped to 209-3.<\/p>\n
Luxton’s previous best score in first-class cricket came on this ground last year in a draw against Surrey, a 71 batting at number four in the order.<\/p>\n
He actually reached his century in 182 balls with a slog-swept six over deep mid-wicket off Suthar, the ball disappearing out of the ground and into one of the gardens of the nearby guesthouse.<\/p>\n
But the former England Under-19 player had actually moved from 50 to 100 in much more circumspect fashion.<\/p>\n
Prior to this innings, Luxton had only scored 130 runs in the Championship and T20 Blast combined in 2026.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire reached tea at 238-3, and Luxton and Revis calmly advanced Yorkshire up to 303 before the latter was bowled by a beauty from Bamber with the new ball.<\/p>\n
Bairstow then lofted Bamber for six over long-on moments before Luxton’s 150 came up in 282 balls.<\/p>\n
Luxton and nightwatch Ben Cliff fell in successive overs late in the day – lbw sweeping at Suthar and caught at first slip off Oliver Hannon-Dalby respectively.<\/p>\n
But Yorkshire will still be thrilled with their work.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Scarborough (day one) Yorkshire 386-6: Luxton 167, Whiteman 55, Bairstow 49*; Barnard 2-47…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-732605","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\/732605","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=732605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}