da 888casino： Yorkshire remain well placed to earn an County Championship double overfellow strugglers Worcestershire although the hosts made heavy weather of theirtask on the third day at Scarborough
da dobrowin： 13-Jul-2011
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Yorkshire remain well placed to earn an County Championship double overfellow strugglers Worcestershire although the hosts made heavy weather of theirtask on the third day at Scarborough.Chasing 134 for victory after stubborn resistance from the visitors tookWorcestershire to a second-innings 332, Yorkshire closed on 80 for 3, 53runs behind.Worcestershire were in big trouble on 82 for 4 at the start of the day,still trailing by 117 after the hosts posted 367 to establish a 199-runfirst-innings advantage. But the visitors refused to throw in the towel, with skipper Daryl Mitchell and James Cameron taking few risks against the pace of Ryan Sidebottom and TimBresnan.The fifth-wicket pair had just batted through the first hour when Cameron droveat a full-length ball from Ajmal Shahzad and Adil Rashid held on at third slip. Mitchell got stuck on 46 for an hour before cover-driving Richard Pyrah to reach his half-century with his ninth boundary.Gareth Andrew was then put down when on 15 by Rashid, who split his right indexfinger in dropping the fairly straightforward chance and spent spells off thefield either side of lunch.Worcestershire lost another wicket before lunch when Pyrah bowled Mitchellthrough the gate for 55 from 141 balls with 10 fours. After the break, Scott was clean bowled by a splendid yorker from Shahzad to end his resistance on nine.Saeed Ajmal shrugged off a blow to the side of his face from Bresnan to hitShahzad for a legside boundary to finally wipe out the arrears, but Andrew thenspoiled a neatly compiled half-century by slashing wildly at a loose ball fromPyrah to be caught behind for 57.Yorkshire were not making things easy for themselves, however, and Saeed Ajmalshould have departed for 19 only for Gary Ballance to grass the chance at secondslip, his third drop of the match.That escape allowed Ajmal and Jack Shantry to take their stand to 54 in 11overs before Ajmal fell to a great delivery from Pyrah for 47, the ball seamingoff the edge of the bat to Jonny Bairstow.Worcestershire, at 270 for 9, still had plenty of fight left in them and thelast-wicket pair of Shantry and Richardson went on the rampage, aided by furtherbad fielding lapses.The hapless Ballance fluffed another chance in the slips when he droppedShantry on 21 off Bresnan, and the batsman celebrated the return of Shahzad bysmashing his first ball back over the bowler’s head for four and also takingboundaries off the next two deliveries.Shantry sailed past his previous best knock of 13 not out and runs flowed asYorkshire and their fans became increasingly frustrated. The score had rattled on to 332, with the last-wicket stand worth 62, when Sidebottom bowled Richardson for 31 just before tea. Shantry’s unbeaten 47 came off 73 balls with eight fours.Yorkshire began their run chase after the interval and soon suffered a setbackas Adam Lyth was run out by a direct hit at the bowler’s end from AlanRichardson after Joe Root had called for a second run.Root then edged Ajmal to slip where he was dropped by Mitchell with the scoreon 19, and Yorkshire were put under further pressure on 29 when Anthony McGrathfell lbw to Richardson, whose 11-over opening spell conceded only 15 runs.A well-flighted ball by Ajmal lured Andrew Gale forward for him to be stumpedby Scott but Root stayed calm under pressure and will begin the final day on 31,with Bairstow unbeaten on 12.
