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Picture by Harry Trump\/Getty Images. Captains Lewis Gregory and Jonny Bairstow at the toss.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jonny Bairstow believes today\u2019s opening day against Somerset was a microcosm of Yorkshire\u2019s season so far.<\/p>\n
The White Rose captain was a frustrated man as he spoke to the media at Taunton this evening, where his side had been bowled out for 162 in their first innings having been 124-3.<\/p>\n
Somerset then closed the day on 201-3, with a lead of 39, thanks largely to 21-year-old opener Josh Thomas\u2019s excellent unbeaten 136.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire are yet to hit their straps in this season\u2019s Rothesay County Championship, having drawn two and lost one to date.<\/p>\n
Bairstow said: \u201cLook, when you\u2019re put into bat and you\u2019re 115-3 at lunch, you\u2019re thinking, \u2018We\u2019re pretty alright\u2019. Then to lose seven wickets for whatever we did, 30-odd, that quite frankly is not good enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s be honest, it\u2019s not the first time this year that we\u2019ve lost wickets in clusters.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the standards that we set for ourselves, we\u2019ve come up far short of so far this year, really.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, yeah, that\u2019s the honest reflection of the first three games in one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was no doubt that Somerset had the better of conditions today. Somerset opener Thomas said that it got easier to bat as the day wore on. But Bairstow, who made 34 with the bat and kept wicket, was not using that as any kind of excuse.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cYou\u2019ve got to make the most of what you\u2019re given.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said, we were 115-3 at lunch, so we\u2019ve kind of weathered that first storm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow old\u2019s Josh? You\u2019ve got a 21-year-old who\u2019s come out and scored 130 in 150 balls and, fair play to him, he played well. That\u2019s the difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were still bowling under lights for a decent period of the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, the lights went off for a little bit, but from a bowling attack on a pitch that\u2019s still doing plenty, we need to be better. One of the things that we\u2019ve prided ourselves on \u2013 we did so well last year \u2013 was holding the game and keeping people at two an over. At the moment, we\u2019re not necessarily doing that.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom all facets of the game, we need to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n
On tomorrow, Bairstow said: \u201cThe guys will go back and have a quick reflect on what we can put right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCricket\u2019s an amazing game, and it\u2019s something that in the morning we\u2019re well aware that if the lights are on like they were this morning, that pitch changes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll be looking to put our best foot forward in that first hour tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bairstow returned to wicketkeeping duties today for the first time since the opening game of the season following his fractured thumb. He played against Sussex last week but didn\u2019t keep.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cYeah, the thumb seems alright \u2013 just cracking on with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to have the gloves back on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Harry Trump\/Getty Images. Captains Lewis Gregory and Jonny Bairstow at the toss.\u00a0 Jonny Bairstow believes today\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561596","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\/561596","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=561596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}