Yorkshire captain Jonny Tattersall reflected on sealing promotion this evening and said: “It’s class and amazing to get over the line.”
The county are back in Division One of the Vitality County Championship, something sealed during a dominant third day against Northamptonshire at Headingley.
Yorkshire closed day three on 371-2 in reply to Northamptonshire’s first-innings 147 all out.
Adam Lyth and James Wharton shared a brilliant 260 partnership for the second wicket, scoring 147 and 162 not out respectively.
Tattersall said: “We’re still mid-game, and it will be nice if we can get a few more runs in the morning and have a go at trying to knock them over and finish with a win. That would be even better walking off that pitch tomorrow.
“I don’t think we were looking at sealing promotion today. You never know what’s going to happen in the other game (Sussex v Middlesex). When we realised that hadn’t started until after lunch, we thought it was going to be pretty tough for Middlesex to get a result.
“We’ve had a pretty strong feeling for most of this game, but we’ve still got to go out there and do it. We did just that.
“Winning the toss and bowling them out fairly cheaply has put us in the driving seat, and Adam and Wharts have played class innings.”
Yorkshire were winless after seven games of the season, the halfway mark of the campaign. So claiming promotion with five wins from six is quite the achievement.
And they’re clearly intent on making it six from seven tomorrow.
Tattersall added: “It’s always been a tight division with not a lot of wins about, and that’s something you can hang onto in Division Two.
“Some of the pitches don’t always produce results, but we knew we had two games at Scarborough that we could definitely win and one at Chesterfield.
“We had that feeling and knew we could roll with it. It’s gone brilliantly since.”
