Neil Whitaker reports
RAIN had the final say in this battle between top and second in the LV County Championship as the final session washed out.
The result means Nottinghamshire swap places with Yorkshire and are five points clear of them. Yorkshire started the last day 95 behind and they lost their first wicket of the day in the fifth over when Anthony McGrath edged Darren Pattinson to Chris Read. He had added two to his overnight score of 78. He faced 283 balls for his 80 which came in nine minutes under five hours and he hit eight fours.
Nottinghamshire’s director of cricket Mick Newell said: “Disappointed. It was an important game we had the chance to build a 20 point lead over Yorkshire, a five point lead is neither here or there. We’ve got three home games left and we play better at home. For the first two days we were more experienced. We would have batted on Tuesday, the pitch was pretty docile.”
On the future of Ryan Sidebottom he said: “We are going to give him until after finals day in the Twenty20, he’s committed to this club, and here he was outstanding. He didn’t look like a man who wanted to leave the club.”
Yorkshire’s Director of Professional cricket Martyn Moxon said: “We had a poor first two days, credit to the lads for fighting back manfully in the last two days. The pitch did a little bit and we weren’t able to combat it. It was the right decision to bat first. We were expecting it to turn. If we had the same decision to make would. We are showing a bit more character than we did in the past.”
He added: “I think we need to win two out of our last four to win the Championship. It would have been very difficult if we had lost. It’s going to be a very interesting run in.”
Night watchman Steve Patterson did his job well, it took him nine minutes shy of two hours and he faced 84 balls before he hit a four. That four was a streaky one through the slips off Sidebottom. Skipper Andrew Gale followed his lead and got bogged so much that it took him 82 minutes to score 14. His innings ended when he wedged the ball on to his foot and Sidebottom took a one handed return catch.
In the morning session Yorkshire only added 53 in 31 over’s, still 42 behind Notts, which meant that Yorkshire would have to score runs at a faster rate in the afternoon because if they scored at the same rate and lost wickets they wouldn’t be too far ahead of Notts.
In the third over after lunch Patterson pushed forward at Samat Patel and was caught at silly point by Mark Wagh. Patterson made 26 from 116 balls in four minutes short of two and half hours. Jonny Bairstow drove Pattinson down the wrong line and was bowled for seven.
Adil Rashid drove Paul Franks straight for a couple to take Yorkshire into the lead with four wickets standing. On 32, Gerard Brophy flashed Sidebottom through the vacant third slip area for a four. Sidebottom then bowled round the wicket and got one to leave Brophy who edged the ball to Read who took the easy catch. Brophy made 37 from 79 balls in a valuable 93 minutes. With Rashid they added 62 in 21 overs. With the last ball before tea Ajmal Shahzad guided Sidebottom to Andre Adams the finer of two gully’s for three. Yorkshire went into tea 39 ahead with two wickets standing when the rain came. In the afternoon session they scored 61 runs for the loss of four wickets.
Nottinghamshire take 11 points from the game while Yorkshire take five.
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YORKSHIRE fought back on the third day against Nottinghamshire with Jacques Rudolph and Anthony McGrath putting on 211 in 74 overs for the second wicket.
Rudolph made 141 and during his innings he passed 1000 first class runs for the season and passed 13,000 runs in first class cricket. There was no nervous nineties as Rudolph went from 92 to 100 with successive fours of Darren Pattinson. His ton came from 155 balls with 17 fours in 193 minutes. In the next over he was dropped by Ali Brown at slip when he cut Samat Patel. That was the only time he looked in trouble throughout his innings until he cut Pattinson to Andre Adams in the gully who took a second brilliant catch there. During the partnership McGrath was very much the junior partner, he scored 78 out of the 141.
At the fall of Rudolph’s wicket Yorkshire sent in night watchman Steve Patterson who saw the day through. The Tykes ended the day on 272 for two still 95 behind Nottinghamshire with McGrath on 78.
Nottinghamshire resumed on 497 for six and made their intentions clear straight from the start when Dave Hussey hit Ajmal Shahzad’s first ball for a straight six. Two balls later Paul Franks cut Shahzad to Jonny Bairstow at the point boundary who took a low catch. Franks made 61 and put on 111 for the seventh wicket in 19 overs with Hussey. Andre Adams hit a big six off Steve Patterson over mid wicket. After 20 minutes of batting they declared.
They declared with Nottinghamshire on 545 for seven with a lead of 367 just after Hussey reached his 250, he was unbeaten on 251 and Adams was 13 not out. Hussey’s 251 was the highest individual Notts innings against Yorkshire. It took Hussey just 18 minutes to add 28 to his overnight score to reach his 250. It was also the highest score by a visiting batsman at Headingley in a Championship match. The Notts total was the eighth highest championship score at Headingly Carnegie.
Notts got a breakthrough when Adam Lyth drove Franks and was brilliantly caught in the gully by Adams for 37 in the 14th over. Yorkshire were now 58 for one.
After the second days play Nottinghamshire’s double centurion Hussey said: “It was satisfying knock. There’s no better place to score runs than at Headingley against Yorkshire. It’s a good place to play cricket, there is always something in it for the bowlers. Always good to score runs against Yorkshire, I like playing here.”
Hussey commented on why he does well against Yorkshire. “The coach reminded me the day before we started that I do well against Yorkshire. We have been waiting all season for the top order to fire. I always want to score at pace. Hopefully we will bowl them out by the end of the day. I always want to make runs against the best teams Yorkshire Durham and Lancashire.”
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE dominated a shortened second day’s play against Yorkshire at Headingley Carnegie.
They took their score to 497 for six, a lead of 319 and Notts highest score against Yorkshire. Aussie Dave Hussey put Yorkshire to the sword. He hit an unbeaten double nelson 222 and shared in two century partnerships. The first with Samit Patel broke the record for the fourth wicket partnership for Nottinghamshire against Yorkshire as they put on 184 in 41 overs which had lasted since 1931 when Willis Walker and Arthur Staples put on 161 at Bramall Lane. The partnership was broken when Pate attempted to drive Adil Rashid and was caught by Jacques Rudolph at first slip for 96 from 153 balls, with 16 fours in 181 minutes.
The partnership should have been broken on 143 when Anthony McGrath’s throw from the square leg boundary was dropped by David Wainwright at the bowlers end with Hussey just short of the ground. On 76 Patel was dropped by Ajmal Shahzad on the third man boundary off Oliver Hannon-Dalby. The Yorkshire fielding was by this stage beginning to look ragged.
Play on the second day didn’t get underway until 1.30 because of early morning rain and 21 overs were lost. Hussey quickly added the 15 to reach his fifty off 53 balls with eight fours in 58 minutes. A cover drive for four from Hussey off Wainwright brought up the century partnership between him and Patel, with Hussey scoring 77 of them. He then went on to hit another 14 off the same over.
In the next over in front of England selector James Whitaker, Patel brought up his half century with a single off Rashid. His fifty was a slower than Hussey came from 131 minutes with eight fours off 102 balls. Patel hit a six and a four through extra cover off Rashid.
Hussey pulled Hanno-Dalby through mid wicket to bring up his second century in two seasons against Yorkshire in Yorkshire. It came from 106 minutes in 128 minutes with 14 fours and a six.
On 168 Hussey gave a return catch to Hannon-Dalby at chest height but the bowler failed to hold it. He brought up his 200 with a four through extra cover off Rashid. He scored it off 208 balls with 26 fours, one six in 286 minutes.
The second with skipper Chris Read put on 114 in 28 overs before he cut Shahzad to Rashid at point who took a head high catch off a wide long hop. He made 42. At the close Paul Franks was unbeaten on 57, his sixth fifty of the season.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE took the honours on the first day in this battle between the top two sides in the first division of the LV County Championship.
They dismissed Yorkshire for 178, their lowest score in the County Championship for two years. Jonny Bairstow top scored with 45. His knock came from 81 balls and included nine fours he was bowled by a Jaffa by former Yorkshire player Ryan Sidebottom for 45.
Yorkshire skipper Andrew Gale won the toss in overcast conditions and decided to bat and they were soon in trouble. They lost their first wicket without a run on the board when Adam Lyth edged the fifth ball of the morning was caught behind by Notts skipper Chris Read off Sidebottom for a duck.
Five overs later they were two down when Anthony McGrath pushed Darren Pattinson out to the covers and set for a run and after a yard he stopped as he saw the had gone straight to Ali Brown. Jacques Rudolph carried on running and was run out by a mile at the bowlers end. Gale was the next to go for 24 which included five fours, he was leg before to Paul Franks in his first over.
McGrath made 29 before he gave a feather edge to Andre Adams and Read took an easy catch. He hit four fours in his 29 and three of those came in four balls off Adams. The Tykes lost their fifth wicket of the morning when Gerard Brophy was bowled by Adams with one that left him for five.
Adil Rashid became the second lbw victim when he fell leg before to Pattinson for 13 in the fourth over after lunch. Ajmal Shahzad chased a wide one from Franks and was caught behind off Franks for 17 after 64 minutes
On nine Steve Patterson flashed hard at Franks and it flew at shoulder height through the slips where Dave Hussey at second slip couldn’t hold on to it. After adding 33 in 11 overs for the ninth wicket with David Wainwright, he pushed forward at Samit Patel and was leg before for 10. In Patel’s next over he trapped Oliver Hannon-Dalby leg before for two to wrap the Yorkshire innings up. Wainwright was unbeaten on 20 despite taking 35 minutes to get off the mark. For the visitors Patel took two wickets for two runs in 3.3 overs.
Yorkshire got an early breakthrough when opener Alex Hales flashed at a wide one from Patterson and was caught behind for two by Brophy. Mark Wagh batted 45 minutes for his four but was beaten when Hannon-Dalby got one to cut back and he was bowled.
Matthew Wood hit 59 off 77 balls in 102 minutes with seven fours before he fell leg before to Patterson. Patel and Hussey saw Notts to the close without losing another wicket as they closed on 147 for three with Patel on 37 and Hussey unbeaten on 35. Hussey brought up the 50 partnership with a four through the covers off Rashid.
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