Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nAdam Lyth’s half-century backed up George Hill’s five-wicket haul as Yorkshire and relegation rivals Hampshire continued to trade blows in their County Championship clash.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire were forced to be patient for much of the day, with Tom Prest and Nick Gubbins typifying a defensive Hampshire batting approach.<\/p>\n
But the hosts could only secure a 24 run first-innings lead as Hill picked up his second five-for of the season \u2013 both coming against Hampshire.<\/p>\n
Lyth, who had earlier picked up his 50th first-class wicket, led the counter with 51 as the visitors built out a 111-run lead, but losing five wickets meant the game remained in the balance.<\/p>\n
Having lost four poles the previous evening, it was paramount for their chances in the game that Gubbins and Prest hung around for as long as possible.<\/p>\n
They answered that demand by patiently blocking and were unmovable for the first 90 minutes of the day \u2013 between them, they soaked up 266 deliveries.<\/p>\n
Gubbins only scored two boundaries in his 149-ball 38, whereas Prest occasionally indulged in an offside boundary \u2013 the dry and invariable nature of the pitch meant batters couldn’t put their guard down.<\/p>\n
In that hour and a half, they were chanceless, but that didn’t mean Yorkshire didn’t feel aggrieved at missing out on a wicket.<\/p>\n
Prest’s straight drive should have been a simple single, but a fantastic George Hill stop and Gubbins turning him around created panic. Hill’s throw struck a retreating Prest as he ran down the middle of the pitch. Yorkshire cried ‘obstructing the field’ but it fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n
The visitors did make the breakthrough shortly after, when Lyth’s off-spin were introduced to the left-handed Gubbins. The match-up was perfect for the bowler as 14 dot balls was followed by an edge to slip.<\/p>\n
Prest was bowled through the gate by Lyth six overs later, but Ben Brown and Felix Organ took up the vigil with another dead-bat partnership.<\/p>\n
They moved the score up by 25 in 16 lifeless overs before leg-spinner Jafer Chohan bowled Brown for his maiden first-class wicket.<\/p>\n
The afternoon session was briefly paused twice as a helicopter bringing Indian politician Revanth Reddy to meet with representatives of GMR, Hampshire’s owners, landed and took off from the Nursery Ground.<\/p>\n
Hill had been metronomic to pick up three wickets on the first evening, and was rewarded with two tail-end wickets \u2013 wonderfully clipping the top of the lively Andrew Neal’s off stump and pinning Kyle Abbott lbw \u2013 to take him to a seventh career five-for.<\/p>\n
Ben Coad rounded things out by dismissing Organ to give the hosts a 24-run lead.<\/p>\n
The advantage was reversed in barely seven overs, as Will Luxton showcased some sweet striking, while Lyth initially dropped anchor.<\/p>\n
Despite Luxton and Sam Whiteman getting bowled, the evening was the first period in the match where scoring flowed easily.<\/p>\n
Hampshire created opportunities \u2013 a dropped catch at second slip, a chance between keeper and first slip, and a variety of edges that dropped short \u2013 but the evening belonged completely to Lyth and Yorkshire.<\/p>\n
The opener played more shots as his innings went on, largely abetted by wide bowling to reach his 124th career fifty in 95 balls.<\/p>\n
But the match took another dramatic swing in the last five overs of the day as Lyth edged Felix Organ to slip and nightwatchers Ben Cliff and Chohan falling.<\/p>\n
One question mark for Yorkshire is over Jonny Bairstow – who had to leave the field after suffering a finger injury while keeping. Due to updates to the replacement rule, he can no longer be replaced permanently in the match, if the damage was to prevent him from batting.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Utilita Bowl, Southampton (day two) Yorkshire 173 & 135-5: Lyth 5; Baker 2-47…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745535","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\/745535","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=745535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}