Picture by John Heald. Matthew Revis cuts en-route to 93 not out this morning.
Matthew Revis made a fine unbeaten 93, completed before lunch on day four, as Yorkshire’s clash with Rothesay County Championship leaders Nottinghamshire ended in a draw at Trent Bridge.
Revis, backed up Fin Bean’s mammoth 224, with his own season’s best score as Yorkshire replied to Notts’ first-innings 487 all out with 510 all out.
The White Rose took a lead of 23 into the afternoon and evening sessions, but the docile nature of the pitch meant that the chances of them forcing a win were remote to say the least. And so it proved.
The hosts started their second innings immediately after lunch and were 148-1, leading by 171, when the players shook hands at 4,50pm. Jonny Bairstow, bowling off-spin, bowled the last over of the match – just his second over in first-class cricket. His other was for Yorkshire at Durham in May 2014.
Opener Ben Slater’s 74 not out represented his fourth successive half-century against Yorkshire this season.
Picture by John Heald. George Hill contributed 30 to Yorkshire’s first-innings 510, the majority of which were added this morning.
Both sides take 12 points from the stalemate, with this Yorkshire’s third draw in eight games added to a win and four defeats. The county remain second-bottom in the table, but they have ended a two-game losing streak dating back to May.
Yorkshire started the day on 414-6, trailing by 73. Revis was unbeaten on 54 and George Hill 4.
The latter was one of four fourth morning wickets to fall, for 30 when he was bowled by Freddie McCann’s part-time off-spin.
McCann ended with three wickets for the first time in first-class cricket, all taken today, matching the haul of frontline spinner Liam Patterson-White, who returned 3-146 from a marathon 62 overs.
Only on nine occasions in his county’s history have bowlers bowled more overs in a first-class innings. But this was the most since 1929.
Picture by John Heald. It was warm work for the Nottinghamshire fielders today.
Of Revis’s eight boundaries in his 243-ball innings, only one of them came today – edged to third-man off Farhan Ahmed’s off-spin.
After Hill’s dismissal – at 469-7 – Dom Bess came in and hit a breezy 26 before being stumped down leg as he advanced at McCann.
Will O’Rourke followed run out following a mix-up with Revis after the former had got a leading edge into the point region off the bowling of Notts’ captain Haseeb Hameed, bowling gentle off-spinners.
And Revis was left stranded seven short of his century when Jack White was bowled playing back to McCann on the stroke of lunch.
This was also Notts’ third Championship draw of the season, but they find themselves top by two points from Surrey with six games to go having won four games and losing only once.
Picture by John Heald. Fin Bean took over the wicketkeeping duties after tea from Jonny Bairstow, who fielded at slip and leg slip.
Bairstow threw the new ball to White and left-arm spinner Dan Moriarty, the latter claimed four wickets in the first innings.
Moriarty took the only wicket to fall in the second innings as well, bowling opener Hameed for 38 – 81-1 in the 20th.
Notts actually batted positively in their second innings, and Slater reached his latest fifty off 86 balls before the hosts reached tea at 114-1, leading by 91.
Left-handed Slater, who posted 96 in the first innings following back-to-back fifties at Headingley in May, also topped the 9,000-run mark in first-class cricket today.
Dawid Malan had bowled a couple of overs of leg-spin before the break, and Bairstow – having handed the wicketkeeping gloves to Bean for the final session – also came on right at the end. James Wharton also bowled a couple of overs of off-spin.
Picture by John Heald. Jonny Bairstow bowls the final over of the match at Trent Bridge this evening.
