WATCH: County Championship Highlights vs Middlesex

“Scintillating, and I tell you what, it’s the first of many. He’s going to get a lot of hundreds, this young man. It was a remarkable performance on his home turf, and we’re seeing the fast emergence of a really special batting talent.”

England Under 19s star Will Bennison believes he is “building into it nicely” in terms of life in Yorkshire’s top order. 

In a couple of weeks, Joe Root will arrive through the Headingley gates as England’s Test Match captain, some 23 years on from his first introduction to life with Yorkshire as a scholar.