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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Bowling coach Mick Lewis praised five-wicket seamer George Hill.<\/p>\n
Bowling coach Mick Lewis hailed George Hill\u2019s ability to problem solve as he claimed an excellent five-wicket haul during an action-packed day one against Hampshire at Headingley.<\/p>\n
Hill was tormentor in chief with 5-46 from 13.1 overs as Yorkshire bowled the inserted visitors out for 251 just after tea, though unfortunately the wickets did not stop falling as the reply closed on 48-4 thanks to three wickets in an over for another seamer in Sonny Baker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Australian Lewis also praised the typically miserly \u2013 and skilful \u2013 Ben Coad, who chipped in with 2-47 from 19 overs.<\/p>\n
Overseas quick Jhye Richardson struck once in addition to captain Dom Bess and Jack White doing likewise.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake Lehmann was Hampshire\u2019s standout player with 76 off 93 balls.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt all started well,\u201d said Australian Lewis. \u201cThat first session was excellent. I don\u2019t know how many play misses we had.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe managed to get ourselves in front of the game, but they got back on a parity. Then we went bang, bang again and got ourselves back ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey could have easily \u2013 the way they\u2019re going at one stage \u2013 got 300 plus today. But if you\u2019d have said we would bowl them out for 250 at the start of the day, I would have taken that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis continued: \u201cI think the first session was excellent, we held our line, we held our length, had a lot of play and misses, created a couple of chances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, I think, after lunch we went away from what worked for us in the first session.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably the next hour, 15 wasn\u2019t ideal \u2013 a lot of cut shots, a lot of drives.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the half-hour to 40 minutes before tea, we got back to what we were really good at.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cToday was ok, but it could have been better.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Hill\u2019s performance, Lewis said: \u201cI thought George was a little bit floaty in his first spell, like he was at Cardiff last week. He didn\u2019t really run in with much purpose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut once he got the first wicket, he started running in a bit more with more purpose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing the class player he is, he figured out the problem and fought back hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis continued: \u201cCoady was excellent today as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat control of the rate, he controlled his length and got a lot of plays and misses.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been working on a few things in the winter out in Melbourne with me, and it\u2019s actually quite pleasing to see it actually paying off for him \u2013 a bit more pace and balance.\u201d<\/p>\n
On debutant Richardson\u2019s performance \u2013 1-51 from 12 overs \u2013 Lewis added: \u201cJhye\u2019s first spell was excellent, I thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s played a game since about March 21, so I think a game like today \u2013 that first innings \u2013 will do him a world of good.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe bowled beautifully in training, and sometimes it can just take a decent spell to get you going.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019ll be better for it. Headingley is quite a unique ground to bowl on, so I think he will learn a lot from today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Bowling coach Mick Lewis praised five-wicket seamer George Hill. Bowling coach Mick Lewis hailed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-524330","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\/524330","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=524330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}