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Picture by John Clifton\/SWPix.com. George Hill congratulates his all-round colleague Matthew Revis after reaching his century.<\/p>\n
George Hill has hailed the form of Matthew Revis, saying the way his fellow all-rounder is batting at the minute is \u201can absolute joke\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hill and Revis are two of three in Yorkshire\u2019s Sedbergh School set, Harry Brook being the other product of Cumbrian education.<\/p>\n
Hill and Revis, thus, know each other well, and today they shared a superb 140-run partnership for the seventh wicket as part of the county\u2019s 545-9 declared first innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Revis\u2019s career best 152 not out marked his third century in as many Rothesay County Championship matches, with Hill contributing a fine season\u2019s best 75.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way Rev\u2019s playing at the minute is an absolute joke,\u201d said Hill. \u201cEveryone\u2019s so chuffed for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all knew he was talented, but with the confidence he has in his own ability, he looks so solid out there. Three hundreds in a row, it\u2019s great to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
With 44 overs remaining in the day, Yorkshire gained a lead of 323 and then reduced Sussex to 20-3, including wickets for Jack White, Matt Milnes and an Imam-Ul-Haq direct hit run out.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Sussex\u2019s fourth-wicket pair Daniel Hughes and Danial Ibrahim shared an unbroken 95 through to close from just before tea, taking their side to 115-3.<\/p>\n
Still, though, Yorkshire are in high spirits, knowing that a third win of the season is well within their grasp.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose three early wickets were massive. Imam\u2019s (Ul-Haq) run out really started it off,\u201d said Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCredit to their two, they batted really nicely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we bowled well and beat the bat quite a lot. There was a good amount of theatre out there. It was a good, entertaining last session of cricket.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s some pizzas out there for Dom Bess to aim at, which is good. It\u2019s spinning out of those, which is a good sign. It\u2019s only going to get worse for facing spin, which is an exciting prospect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a new ball in 30 or 40 overs, and it\u2019s still nipping around now. If we hit a length hard and consistently, there\u2019s enough there for us. We\u2019re very confident for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hill\u2019s score ended a frustrating run of form with the bat. As well as he has bowled \u2013 he\u2019s been sensational for 39 wickets \u2013 it hasn\u2019t quite happened for him with the bat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But he looked good for a third fifty of the season, this one upon his return from injury.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe last month has been a bit strange for me. I\u2019ve not played a huge amount because of my heel. It\u2019s been a case of staying away from cricket a bit, switching off, and it seemed to work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith my batting today, I just went out there and didn\u2019t really think of anything. I just tried to watch the ball as hard as I could. Luckily, it came off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was good fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Hill knows all too well what one score can do for a season. Revis is proof of that, with his 93 not out in the draw against Nottinghamshire at the end of June sparking a glut of red-ball runs.<\/p>\n
Fingers crossed, that\u2019s the same for Hill.<\/p>\n
First things first, though, and a win tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by John Clifton\/SWPix.com. George Hill congratulates his all-round colleague Matthew Revis after reaching his century. George Hill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-37559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}