Picture by John Clifton/SWPix.com. Matthew Revis has now posted three successive Championship centuries.
Matthew Revis hit another superb century – an unbeaten career best 152 off 188 balls – as Yorkshire closed in on a crucial Rothesay County Championship victory over Sussex at Scarborough.
In-form Revis posted his third hundred in as many Division One matches, sharing a seventh-wicket partnership of 140 with fellow all-rounder George Hill, who was excellent for 75 either side of the lunch break on day three.
Yorkshire started the day on 292-4, with Revis 22. He reached his latest ton on the stroke of lunch, where Yorkshire reached ideally placed 453-6 in reply to a first-innings 222.
They went on to make 545-9 declared midway through the day, with Revis hitting 14 fours and two sixes.
From there, Sussex closed on 115-3 from 44 overs, recovering from 20-3 shortly before tea. They remain 208 in arrears. Daniel Hughes and Danial Ibrahim both posted unbeaten fifties in a century stand.
Revis, aged 23, became the first Yorkshire player to score three hundreds in successive first-class matches since Gary Ballance in 2019 and the first non-capped White Rose player to achieve that feat since 1945.
Picture by John Clifton/SWpix.com. George Hill en-route to a season’s best score today.
Sussex made a useful start to the day by removing Harry Duke and Will Sutherland, leaving Yorkshire 320-6 in the 97th over, the day’s seventh.
Duke was caught behind for 21 against an out-swinger from Fynn Hudson-Prentice in the day’s second over – Sussex having taken the new ball immediately at the start of play – before Sutherland was bowled by his fellow Australian Gurinder Sandhu for two.
But it was only a brief respite for them as, from there, Revis and Hill advanced in entertaining fashion.
Revis played a couple of eye-catching drives down the ground against seam, one straight of mid-on in the opening few overs particularly memorable.
Hill lofted Jack Carson’s off-spin for six over long-on to to Trafalgar Square End of this ground. That actually went out of the ground and landed in the back yard of the Air BnB which the Yorkshire live stream team are using this week.
They later asked Hill to sign the ball as a keep sake.
Picture by John Clifton/SWPix.com. George Hill and Matthew Revis shared a seventh-wicket stand of 140.
This represented Hill’s best score of the Championship season.
After Revis reached his fifty in 77 balls, Hill’s came in 65.
In all this morning, the White Rose scored 161 runs in 32 overs. Revis reached his fifth Championship career century off 137 balls immediately before the break.
Hill fell shorty after lunch when he skied a pull at seamer Henry Crocombe to mid-on before Dom Bess was caught behind trying to scoop at Fynn Hudson-Prentice.
That left Yorkshire at 492-8 in the 133rd over.
Revis pulled a couple of sixes off Carson before Matt Milnes was caught sweeping against the same bowler, signalling the declaration immediately.
Picture by John Clifton/SWPix.com. Matt Milnes celebrates taking the pre-tea wicket of Sussex’s James Coles.
And Yorkshire continued to thrive as a 22-point haul and win number three of the season came into full focus on a pitch which has offered good pace and carry all the way through.
They reduced Sussex to 20-3 in six overs thanks to Jack White and Matt Milnes, who struck once apiece added to the run out of Tom Alsop.
The run out came from a direct hit by Imam-Ul-Haq at the striker’s end having run around to cover.
White had Tom Haines caught and bowled off a lead edge and Milnes got James Coles caught at fourth slip for a golden duck the ball after Alsop had departed.
Unfortunately, however, there was no more joy for the White Rose as Sussex repelled through Hughes and Danial Ibrahim, who steadied the ship for their side on pitch offering obvious turn.
Left-handed Hughes hit 10 fours in a 114-ball fifty, while Ibrahim following him there off 111 balls – six fours – with the last ball of the day. Hughes has 56, Ibrahim 50, the pair having shared 95.
Picture by John Clifton/SWPix.com. Imam-Ul-Haq is mobbed by his team-mates after running out Tom Alsop for a duck this afternoon.
