6.25pm That’s it for the day. Bad light brings an end to proceedings five mins early. Yorkshire 164-3 replying to 119. Tom Kohler-Cadmore 64 and Jack Leaning 20. Five wickets for Matthew Waite.
We’re into the last half hour of play at Weetwood. Yorkshire 155-3, leading by 46. Kohler-Cadmore has 61 and Jack Leaning 14.
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tomkcadmore</a> reaches a 72-ball fifty with eight fours. <a href="https://twitter.com/YorkshireCCC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">YorkshireCCC 134-3 in the 31st. #OneRose— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) March 31, 2019
5.20pm Ballance is caught at point off Neal for 39. Yorkshire are 119-3 and it’s scores level.
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YorkshireCCC</a> 105-2 in the 20th over and just 14 runs behind now. Kohler-Cadmore and Ballance have put on 74 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OneRose?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OneRose</a></p>— Yorkshire CCC (YorkshireCCC) March 31, 2019
Tea Matthew Waite claimed his maiden five-wicket haul as Yorkshire bowled Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities out for 119 before tea on day one at Weetwood.
The White Rose claimed seven afternoon wickets as the students slipped from 85-3 to 119 all out.
Waite claimed two wickets in his first over after lunch and finished with 5-16 from 12 overs.
While he has taken five-fors in county under 14s and 17s cricket, the all-rounder’s previous best in senior cricket was a four-wicket haul in the second team.
Duanne Olivier finished with two wickets on debut, while Ben Coad wrapped up the innings with the last three to fall in the space of four balls.
Yorkshire started their reply 50 minutes before lunch and lost Harry Brook for 17 and Adam Lyth for 12 in successive overs as the score fell to 31-2 in the eighth over.
Brook was caught behind down leg off Josh Holling and Lyth trapped lbw by Stephen Cantwell.
They will begin the evening on 70-2 after 13 overs. Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Gary Ballance are unbeaten on 26 and 11 respectively.
3.51pm Leeds/Bradford have claimed two wickets in two overs, Brook caught behind down leg off Holling and Lyth trapped lbw by Cantwell. 31-2 as we approach tea.
Brook gone! He’s been caught behind down leg off Holling for 17.
YorkshireCCC</a> 31-1 in the seventh replying to 119 <a href="https://twitter.com/Leeds_Sport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Leeds_Sport. #OneRose— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) March 31, 2019
3.09pm Fallows edges Coad behind to end the innings with three wickets in four balls. 119 all out inside 50 overs.
Two wickets in two balls for
BenCoad10</a>, who gets Dahl caught at second slip with a short ball and bowls Holling. 118-9. <a href="https://twitter.com/Leeds_Sport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Leeds_Sport #OneRose— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) March 31, 2019
3.04pm Dahl caught at second slip by Lyth off Coad as he attempted to pull a short ball. Batsman seemed to suggest it was forearm rather than glove. Goes for 46. 118-8.
3pm Yorkshire’s opening week Championship opponents Notts are 305-0 against Cambridge at Fenner’s. Ben Duckett has 206 of them.
Neal gone!
mat_waite</a> picks up his fifth wicket as Neal nibbles at one and edges behind. 102-7 in the 43rd <a href="https://twitter.com/Leeds_Sport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Leeds_Sport #OneRose— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) March 31, 2019
2.25pm Read fends a short ball from Olivier into the slips, and Leaning takes a comfortable looping catch. 93-6.
Ironside gone! He’s been trapped lbw shouldering arms against
mat_waite</a>. Two in the over. 88-5. <a href="https://twitter.com/Leeds_Sport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Leeds_Sport #OneRose— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) March 31, 2019
2pm Great start to the afternoon for Yorkshire and Matthew Waite, who yorks Saad Ashraf (24). Leeds/Bradford 88-4 in the 35th.
Lunch Duanne Olivier claimed his 400th first-class wicket and Matthew Waite struck twice during a hard-fought opening morning of Yorkshire’s three-day friendly against Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities at Weetwood.
Leeds/Bradford have reached lunch on 85-3 from 33 overs.
Olivier forced Taylor Cornall to play on at the end of the 12th over, leaving the students at 36-1 after they had elected to bat.
Yorkshire’s new South African signing tested the Leeds/Bradford openers on a sluggish pitch during his seven-over opening spell, although Josh Haynes, another left-hander, was solid for 20.
Waite has been the pick of Yorkshire’s bowlers, getting Oliver Batchelor caught behind driving and Haynes lbw with a full in-swinger as the score slipped to 49-3 in the 24th over.
Shortly before lunch, Saad Ashraf counter-attacked against Mat Pillans, driving well through the covers off the front and back foot. He will begin the afternoon unbeaten 23 alongside captain Angus Dahl (20).
12.51pm Over at the IPL, where it is much warmer than it is here at Weetwood, Jonny Bairstow has smashed 114 off 56 balls for Sunrisers against Bangalore. Bairstow and David Warner have shared an opening stand of 185, an IPL record.
12.37pm Haynes gone! A solid innings from the left-handed opener is brought to a close by a full in ducker from Waite, who traps him lbw for 20. Further proof that the all-rounder has been the pick of Yorkshire’s bowlers this morning. 49-3 in the 24th.
Batchelor gone! He’s edged
mat_waite</a> behind for 2. <a href="https://twitter.com/Leedsmccu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Leedsmccu 40-2 in the 18th.Leeds_Sport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OneRose?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OneRose</a></p>— Yorkshire CCC (YorkshireCCC) March 31, 2019
11.50am First wicket of the morning goes to Duanne Olivier, who has Taylor Cornall bowled (looked to be via inside edge). That’s his 400th first-class wicket. 36-1 in the 13th over now as Steve Patterson comes into the attack.
11.23am Leeds/Bradford 16-0 in the seventh. Coad and Olivier have carried a threat throughout, Coad having a caught behind shout turned down and Olivier having the openers Haynes and Cornall bobbing and weaving with a couple of short balls. Haynes has just driven Coad for four, the first boundary.
Here’s the surface for the opening day of the season. #OneRose pic.twitter.com/BnYidfeS7y
— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) March 31, 2019
10.35am Leeds/Bradford have won the toss and will bat first.
Leeds/Bradford MCCU: Haynes, Cornall, Batchelor, Dahl c, Ashraf, Ironside, Read w, Neal, Fallows, Holling, Cantwell.
Yorkshire: Lyth, Brook, Ballance, Kohler-Cadmore, Leaning, Tattersall w, Waite, Patterson c, Pillans, Coad, Olivier.
Good morning from Weetwood, where it is pretty chilly but sunny nonetheless, and we are all set for the start of Yorkshire’s summer. We take on the students of Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities in a three-day first-class fixture, starting at 11am.
Leeds/Bradford were beaten by Derbyshire at Derby last week and should include former Yorkshire youngster Johnny Read.
Duanne Olivier is all set to debut for the White Rose, and his first wicket will be the 400th of his first-class career.
We missed out on this fixture last year due to the Beast from the East, but there are no such weather issues this week.
It’s good to be back. Enjoy the game and the summer.
