? Yorkshire 254-8 v Warwickshire
? Warwickshire won toss and elected to bowl
Yorkshire got more than they ought to at Edgbaston and Warwickshire no more than they deserved. Cloudy overhead and a bit of spice in the pitch were conducive conditions for seam bowling. From the start, the ball swung nicely and moved off the seam, making batting a challenge.
Under the circumstances it was easy to see why the home side chose to bowl first in a match that, with them pushing hard for the Championship pennant and Yorkshire trying hard to hold back the floodwaters of relegation, is vital for both teams.
By the day's end, Yorkshire, at 254 for eight, can be grateful to the diligence and good fortune of Joe Sayers and Adam Lyth for helping them gain two batting points that ought to have been beyond their reach. Sayers batted almost to the end of the second session in making 84 before he edged the left-arm spin of Chris Metters to Tim Ambrose, a tame ending to a worthy effort.
He and Lyth added 134 for the second wicket, with Lyth going on to make 74 before he was lbw on the back foot to Metters, shortly before the second new ball was due, with Jonny Bairstow having been well caught by Rikki Clarke at slip four balls earlier.
It precipitated a spell in which Warwickshire regained control of the situation, making the sort of inroads they should have managed first thing, with Adil Rashid and Ajmal Shahzad each caught at second slip off Keith Barker and Clarke respectively, and Gary Balance taken in the gully off Woakes. Yorkshire may struggle now to get a third batting point, and the stage is set perhaps for the sort of marathon effort that is the hallmark of Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
Warwickshire tried too hard to make things happen. When there is movement such as this, and it is easy to control, there is no need to force the issue. The ball will beat the bat regularly and bowlers have to be sanguine about it. Discipline is required in the knowledge that the ball will perform tricks of its own accord and eventually find the edge.
Yorkshire were given a good start of 48 by Sayers and Joe Root before Clarke's second ball removed Root's off-stump, which was then lent solidity by Sayers and Lyth. The presence of Jacques Rudolph in the Yorkshire team has meant Lyth missing the past four matches, but the South African has returned home for a training camp. More aggressive than Sayers during their stand, Lyth took his chance, reaching his half-century by pulling Clarke flat over the shorter (by a factor of half) of the two midwicket boundaries.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/aug/31/yorkshire-warwickshire-county-championship
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