Picture by YCCC. Matthew Revis bats against Nottinghamshire at Headingley today, en-route to a season’s best 45.
Yorkshire were beaten by Rothesay County Championship leaders Nottinghamshire at Headingley today, losing their final five wickets shortly before tea on day four.
Table-toppers Notts’ had set an unlikely target of 463 before tea on day three, and Yorkshire reached close on 176-5, needing 287 more.
Matthew Revis and George Hill started the day at the crease and shared 54 inside the day’s opening 85 minute to raise hopes of a revival. Unfortunately, however, it wasn’t to be, and they were bowled out for 299 to lose by 163 runs.
Revis top-scored with a season’s best 45 off 130 balls, while Hill contributed 26.
But the visitors remained patient and chipped away at the wickets, sealing a fourth win in seven matches this summer. Conversely, Yorkshire were beaten for the fourth time in seven and remain second-bottom in Division One at the midway point in the campaign.
Dillon Pennington was Nottinghamshire’s hero, finishing with a season’s best 5-106 from 31 overs.
He claimed three wickets today, all caught behind by South African wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne, who took six catches in the innings and nine in the match.
In all, there were 15 caught behind dismissals in this fixture.
Revis and fellow all-rounder Hill, who contributed 26, batted pretty comfortably through almost the first hour-and-a-half of play.
Although the former took a painful blow on the right thumb from the seam of Brett Hutton, he played confidently through the off-side off front foot and back.
But the morning breakthrough was somewhat of a gift for Notts, going to the part-time off-spin of Freddie McCann, who had been brought into the attack to bowl an over before the new ball was due.
He dragged his first ball down, Hill went to pull, but the delivery scooted through and uprooted middle stump, leaving the score at 230-6.
Then, seven balls into the afternoon, Pennington forced Revis – playing back – to feather behind to Verreynne with the score on 244.
The same combination accounted for Yorkshire’s stand-in captain Dom Bess for 21, as it did for Ben Coad on five.
By that stage, at 277-9, the outcome of this game was all but certain.
With some rain falling, Jordan Thompson and Jack White resisted for just over an hour to heighten some Notts’ nerves. But Mohammad Abbas returned to get White caught behind to win it, ending a 19.1-over partnership.
These two sides meet again at Trent Bridge in the next Championship match in late June.
Before then, the Vitality Blast T20 competition starts. Yorkshire’s first game is against Northamptonshire Steelbacks at Headingley on Friday (6.30pm).
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com. Dillon Pennington finished with a second-innings 5-105 for Nottinghamshire today.
