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Picture by Harry Trump\/Getty Images. James Wharton celebrates reaching his fifty today.<\/p>\n
James Wharton says Yorkshire were delighted with their day three work at Taunton today, the recently-capped batter contributing a fine 92 to a very useful 251-lead with one wicket remaining.<\/p>\n
The White Rose head into day four at the Cooper Associates County Ground with every chance of a victory having advanced their second innings from 13-0 overnight to 365-9 at close.<\/p>\n
They wiped off the deficit which stood at 99 this morning, with Joe Root\u2019s 64, Dom Bess\u2019s 40 and Jhye Richardson\u2019s unbeaten 48 standing out.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire have added 79 and counting for the last two wickets against the early-season pacesetters, with Bess, Richardson and last-man Jack White contributing.<\/p>\n
Wharton said: \u201cWe were just talking then, if you\u2019d have said we\u2019d be 250 ahead with a wicket left at close, we\u2019d have bitten your hand off for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing 100 and whatever we were behind, we\u2019re pretty happy with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cA few balls have spun. The one that got Logan obviously spun quite a bit, and we\u2019ve seen a few puffs of dust and whatnot.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, we\u2019ve got a great bowling attack, and we\u2019ve got a great spinner in Bessy and golden arm Rooty. So we\u2019re coming raring to go tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was Wharton\u2019s best score of the season so far, and he shared 123 for the third wicket either side of lunch with England star Root.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been pretty rubbish, to be fair, at the start of the season,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo it\u2019s nice to contribute, but also disappointing not to make it a big one and really help us push on.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s obviously frustrating that it\u2019s taken four games to get to the point where we really show what we can do with the ball and then also show a bit of fight with the bat to get ourselves in with a chance in this game.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, if this is the sort of kick-start to our season that we need, hopefully it continues for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
And on sharing his century stand with Root, Wharton added: \u201cHe\u2019s the GOAT, isn\u2019t he.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable batting with him. The way he talks, he plans everything out almost. He knows what\u2019s going to happen before it\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way he just sort of kept me ticking along batting with him \u2013 because he\u2019s so busy, it rubs off on other people. It certainly felt like it did for me today. He played, obviously, unbelievably well again.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Bessy played beautifully as well, Jhye too, and Jack was just a barn door.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s put us in a really nice position for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Harry Trump\/Getty Images. James Wharton celebrates reaching his fifty today. James Wharton says Yorkshire were delighted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-564681","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\/564681","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=564681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}