Yorkshire favourites to force win over Glamorgan-ZoomTech News


Matthew Revis celebrates with Yorkshire team-mate James Wharton after he claimed his first five-wicket haul within the Championship
LV=County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day three):
Yorkshire 500: Shan Masood 192, Bean 93, Hill 71; Harris 3-131, Carlson 3-147
Glamorgan 273 (89.2 overs): Carlson 64; Revis 5-50, Coad 3-17 & 120-2: Byrom 52*, Northeast 45*
Glamorgan (2 pts) path Yorkshire (7 pts) by 107 runs with eight second-innings wickets remaining
Scorecard

Matthew Revis and Ben Coad bowled Yorkshire nearby of victory as they pressured Glamorgan to comply with on in Cardiff.

The Welsh county resume on 120-2, nonetheless 107 runs behind, after being bowled out for 273 first time spherical.

Revis claimed a career-best 5 for 50 whereas Kiran Carlson top-scored with 64.

However Eddie Byrom (52 not out) and Sam Northeast supplied sterner resistance second time round.

Resuming at 150-6, Glamorgan added 63 runs in 29 overs between the showers in an attritional first session, shedding Carlson who fended a brief ball to brief leg as Revis claimed his fourth wicket.

Dan Douthwaite was briefly tempted to hook within the air by Revis as Yorkshire packed the leg-side area, however shortly thought higher of it.

Douthwaite, in his first championship match since April, and Andy Gorvin settled right into a sample of gritty defence as spinner Dom Bess wheeled away unchanged with fielders clustered around the bat.

The brand new ball did the trick in model as Coad trapped Douthwaite lbw for 37 along with his first supply again, and produced a jaffa to hit James Harris’ off-stump subsequent ball.

Bizarrely, Coad (3-17) and Jordan Thompson have been faraway from the assault after two overs every with the brand new ball, and the guests opted for some ill-advised techniques because the tenth wicket pair of Andy Gorvin (47) and Jamie McIlroy (30 not out) have been in a position to settle in after which prosper for career-best scores.

Each hit their first sixes within the first staff in a stand of 56 bringing an sudden bonus level, earlier than Revis cleaned up Gorvin’s stumps to have fun his maiden five-for.

With a day and a half to win the match, Yorkshire made early inroads second time spherical as Coad had Zain Ul Hassan caught at slip with out scoring and Colin Ingram (14) edged Bess to slide.

Eddie Byrom and Sam Northeast did their finest to dig in although Byrom was discomforted by some brief bowling from a revved-up Revis, two successive balls simply lobbing over wicketkeeper and slips.

Bess settled into one other lengthy spell and Yorkshire needed to flip to double spin as the sunshine pale, with Adam Lyth having Byrom dropped by each wicketkeeper and slip off the identical ball as an edge introduced his half-century up.

Northeast was the extra settled of the 2 with some elegant drives taking him to 45 not out by the point the umpires once more checked the sunshine and ended Yorkshire’s efforts for the day.

Glamorgan captain Kiran Carlson advised BBC Sport Wales:

“The day was a bit up and down, a disgrace I received out early on as a result of Dan and me may have constructed a pleasant partnership. However Andy Gorvin and Jamie McIlroy batted fantastically on the finish (of the primary innings), then Sam and Eddie placed on a superb partnership in difficult circumstances.

“We have needed to save video games a couple of occasions this 12 months, so we have got each confidence we are able to do this although we all know Yorkshire are going to throw every thing at us.

“All we are able to do is try to bat the day. The wicket is unusual, generally it feels actually flat however it is a bit two-paced and Matt Revis was difficult to face, so we will must work out a strategy to problem that.”

Yorkshire bowler Ben Coad advised BBC Radio Leeds:

“The pitch is not providing an excessive amount of, it is gradual and low however the effort we have put in has been nice and we have got our rewards. There’s nonetheless an extended strategy to go however the place we’re in has been a superb effort up to now.

“To bowl them out for 270-odd has given us the possibility to win the sport. When somebody does tough batters up like (Revis), it isn’t that ball that essentially will get the wicket however the one you comply with up with.

“How far his bowling has come on within the final couple of years has been superb, he is received some severe tempo and on a pitch like that he is powerful to play.”


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