Matches

Essex won the toss and elected to bowl. Finlay Bean and Will Bennison opened cautiously adding 33 when at the end of the 10th over the bowler Newman got a touch on a straight drive from Bean and unfortunately Bennison was out of his ground – run out for 18. Harry Duke was caught at slip for 3 and Jawad Akhtar departed in the same way for 6.

“Don’t take away the winning side of things. It’s important, of course it is. But I’m looking at this from a big picture, long-term project point of view.”

Yorkshire head coach Anthony McGrath reflected on his side’s near miss against Warwickshire at Scarborough today and said: “We’re disappointed, but I can’t fault the heart.