{"id":500946,"date":"2026-03-29T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:10:08","slug":"essex-v-yorkshire-mens-friendly-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500946\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex v Yorkshire, men\u2019s friendly \u2013 Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28698\" class=\"wp-image-28698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jonny-Bairstow-008-300x220.jpg.webp.webp\" alt=\"Jonny Bairstow\" width=\"805\" height=\"590\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-28698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Jonny Bairstow was in the runs at Chelmsford today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn--solid\" href=\"https:\/\/live.nvplay.com\/ecb\/?tab=m_scorecard#m36076fec-55c4-4fd9-8d96-683f428ec197\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SCORECARD\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Captain Jonny Bairstow led the way with 50, added to by scores of 45 for Dom Bess and 43 for Adam Lyth, as Yorkshire totalled 247-11 on the second and final day of their pre-season friendly against Essex at Chelmsford today.<\/p>\n<p>The White Rose county were responding to Essex day-one 255-12 from 68.4 overs, with teenaged quick Jay Singh claiming 4-41 from 12 and Ben Cliff 3-56 from 13.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the visitors responded in similar fashion \u2013 facing 68 overs \u2013 as they build up to Friday\u2019s season opener, the Rothesay County Championship clash with Glamorgan at Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Wickets fell at regular intervals throughout the day, but there was encouragement for Bairstow, all-rounder Bess and opener Lyth. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emerging fast bowler Charlie Bennett struck twice for Essex, as did spin duo Simon Harmer and Matt Critchley.<\/p>\n<p>Bairstow reached his fifty off 44 balls before being trapped lbw by Mitchell Killeen two balls later. He hit nine fours and a straight six, the latter off the pace of Zaman Akhter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28763\" class=\"wp-image-28763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dom-Bess-012-300x226.jpg.webp.webp\" alt=\"Dom Bess\" width=\"808\" height=\"609\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-28763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Dom Bess struck once with his off-spin yesterday and retired out with 45 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Jonny Bairstow was in the runs at Chelmsford today.\u00a0 SCORECARD\u00a0 Captain Jonny Bairstow led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-500946","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\/500946","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=500946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}