Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nLeicestershire batted through bowler-friendly conditions on a heavily weather-affected day three of the County Championship clash with Yorkshire at Scarborough.<\/p>\n
The Division One match is heading for a draw, a result which could prove to be a healthy one for a Foxes side bidding to avoid relegation.<\/p>\n
Openers Rishi Patel and Sheridon Gumbs returned to the crease at midday at 12-0 in reply to Yorkshire’s 263 all out following a delayed start because of a wet outfield. <\/p>\n
They took the score to 84-0 before further rain ended the day after only 31.5 overs were bowled. It took the total lost in this match beyond the 140-over mark.<\/p>\n
When play started, openers Patel and Gumbs had to contend with seam, swing and a touch of uneven bounce. That there was little to say about the 70-minute morning session was credit to the right-hand, left-hand pair.<\/p>\n
They quietly went about their business against the new ball, taking the lunchtime score to 43-0.<\/p>\n
One Gumbs cover drive off Jack White before lunch, and a Patel back-foot punch through the same region off Ben Coad just after were particularly memorable.<\/p>\n
On another day, Yorkshire could have easily gained significant success, although they will be a touch frustrated that they weren’t at their best line-wise.<\/p>\n
The scoreline will be more of a disappointment to Yorkshire than Leicestershire.<\/p>\n
The White Rose county believe they can elevate themselves up into what is already a jam-packed title race as the Championship season draws to a thrilling conclusion. <\/p>\n
But they need to keep winning to back up last weekend’s success over Hampshire at the Utilita Bowl.<\/p>\n
However, they are not yet out of the woods relegation-wise either. They started the round 17 points ahead of second-bottom Leicestershire and 27 behind leaders Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n
There was a knee injury concern for Yorkshire, too, with talismanic all-rounder George Hill leaving the field not long before play was halted, two balls into his sixth over.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Scarborough (day three) Yorkshire 263: Wharton 70, Hill 62; Hull 3-57 Leicestershire 84-0:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-872964","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\/872964","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=872964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}