da marjack bet： Joe Root scored a classic maiden first-class century to put Yorkshire back inthe match on the second day of their County Championship clash againstSussex at Scarborough
da doce： 18-Aug-2011
Scorecard
Joe Root scored a classic maiden first-class century to put Yorkshire back inthe match on the second day of their County Championship clash againstSussex at Scarborough.The 20-year-old England Lions batsman, who also plays for Sheffield Collegiate,the same club for who Michael Vaughan first stepped out, was still there at theclose with 111 as Yorkshire reached 251 for 4 in 45 overs. Root’s chanceless century came off 188 deliveries and contained 18 cleanly-struck boundaries.Replying shortly before lunch to the visitors’ first-innings score of 398,Yorkshire suffered a blow in the third over when acting captain Jacques Rudolphwas out for only a single, the South African being tempted into a drive by WayneParnell and edging to wicketkeeper Ben Brown.Parnell struck again after the interval by trapping Joe Sayers lbw but hisnew-ball partner, James Anyon, went unrewarded for a fine spell of decidedlyquick seam bowling. Root, coming in at the fall of Rudolph’s wicket, was helped in repairing theearly damage by Anthony McGrath, and they moved the score on to 81 beforeMcGrath was lbw to Amjad Khan for 29.Another useful stand developed between Root and Jonny Bairstow with Rootpulling Khan fiercely for four to complete his fifth half-century of the seasonoff 83 balls with 10 boundaries.They had taken their partnership to 71 by tea but only four had been added inthe final session when Bairstow fell for 33 to a tumbling catch at first slip byMike Yardy to give James Anyon a much deserved wicket at the start of his secondspell. With Yorkshire 156 for 4, Gary Ballance came in to continue his good run ofform and he carved Anyon over the top of third man for six.Runs were coming rapidly but when Ballance swept hard at Monty Panesar hestruck Chris Nash a painful blow on the arm at short leg and had to leave thefield for treatment.Root was looking a class act and consecutive boundaries off Panesar and astraight drive for four at Kirk Wernars’ expense pushed him into the 90s. Hereached his century by slapping a loose ball from Anyon to the cover boundary toreceive a standing ovation. Ballance was 45 at stumps and his unbroken fifth-wicket partnership with Root was worth 95, Yorkshire having reduced the first-innings deficit to 147.Sussex had a chance to take control of the game when they resumed in themorning on 335 for 5 with Yardy on 126 and Wernars 16, but Yorkshire hit backwell by claiming the last five wickets for 63.In the day’s first over, Yardy glanced Ryan Sidebottom for four but the nextball he edged into Bairstow’s gloves to give the former England left-arm pacemanhis first five-wicket haul since returning to his native county at the start ofthe season. Richard Pyrah chipped in with two wickets in three balls as Parnell hookedstraight to Sidebottom at long leg and Wernars chopped into his stumps.The first eight wickets of the Sussex innings had fallen to pace butleg-spinner Adil Rashid, came on to snuff out the tail by gaining lbw verdictsagainst both Khan and Panesar.Soon after midday, with umpire Trevor Jesty off the field for an hour with asickness complaint, former Yorkshire and England all-rounder Craig White, nowthe county’s deputy director of cricket, came on to stand at square leg for afew overs until being replaced by 75-year-old local umpire Fred Bernard. Bernard returned an hour before the close when Jesty was forced from the field again.
