Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nYorkshire and Leicestershire traded blows during an intriguing weather-affected day one of their pivotal County Championship clash at Scarborough.<\/p>\n
Josh Davey removed openers Adam Lyth and Will Luxton inside the first four overs of a 10th-round fixture which could yet end with Yorkshire looking at a realistic title challenge or a realistic relegation battle.<\/p>\n
But third-wicket pair James Wharton, who finished with 70 not out off 129 balls, and Sam Whiteman took the sting out of the situation either side of lunch, sharing 115 en-route to a close of play 144-5 in 52.5 overs.<\/p>\n
After stand-in Foxes captain Ian Holland won the toss, Davey (2-22) squared Lyth up and had him caught behind before uprooting Luxton’s middle-stump with one angled into the right-hander.<\/p>\n
From there through to lunch, Leicestershire’s bowlers were unable to maintain the pressure.<\/p>\n
Wharton and Whiteman (49), one an England Lion and the other a current state captain of Western Australia, united with effect, taking the lunchtime score to 84-2.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire’s position in the Division One table is a fascinating one and highlights how jam-packed it is. They started this round of fixtures joint fifth in the table with Sussex, 17 points clear of second-bottom Leicestershire and 27 behind leaders Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n
Wharton whipped the first ball of the afternoon for four wide of mid-on off against Davey and reached his fifty very soon afterwards, off 79 balls.<\/p>\n
He and Whiteman followed that by recording their century stand, while the latter then picked up a seven made up of a three to third off Tom Scriven and then four overthrows as wicketkeeper Jonny Tattersall tried to run Whiteman out at the non-striker’s end.<\/p>\n
But Leicestershire’s bowlers did get their mojo back in useful conditions; overcast skies and nip and extra bounce in the pitch.<\/p>\n
Scriven and Tattersall united to oust a driving Whiteman – 121-3 in the 42nd over – before Matthew Revis followed caught behind down leg off Alex Green with 140 on the board.<\/p>\n
Left-arm quick Hull then had a driving Jonny Bairstow caught behind following extra bounce – Tattersall’s fourth catch of the day – with Yorkshire now 144-5.<\/p>\n
Only one more ball was bowled before bad light intervened, forced tea and ultimately ended the day when rain followed. Play was abandoned at 4.45pm.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Scarborough (day one) Yorkshire 144-5: Wharton 70*, Whiteman 49; Davey 2-22 Leicestershire: Yet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751708","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\/751708","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=751708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}