Yorkshire CCC achieves championship win despite family troubles in Northampton Yorkshire News

The County Championship may have been on hold these past weeks, allowing the T20 Blast to take center stage, but it was the same old story from a Yorkshire point of view.

Once again, despite all his weaknesses with the bat and his constant search for “the perfect performance”, Yorkshire found a way to get the job done.

It’s what good teams do. It’s what this Yorkshire team does.

The margin of triumph was not as narrow as when these sides met at Headingley in late April / early May.

So the success of a Yorkshire run was scarier than an ’80s rock star caught in a hurricane.

This 53-race success, sealed with 19 overs remaining on day three, was much more comfortable, but another example of Yorkshire’s ability to get over the line.

That is why they, and not Northants, will play in the new Division One, why they, and not Northants, will have a chance to win the Championship in full and the Bob Willis Trophy when the tournament moves to its new stage later on. month.

Yorkshire will be mathematically certain of its place in Division One if Glamorgan fails to beat Sussex in their ongoing game at Hove, while Yorkshire would require only a maximum of two points from their last group match against Lancashire at Emerald Headingley, starting Sunday, in case of Glamorgan does not win.

In other words, barring a hurricane or the end of days, Yorkshire is home and hosed, just like Lancashire, the only question is which one will lead the pack.

After a fifth win in nine championship games this season, with Harry Brook 113’s second inning, Dom Bess’s 9-102 streak and George Hill’s first inning 71 outstanding contributions, the coach of the first Yorkshire XI Andrew Gale stayed to reflect on a familiar path to success.

“Getting eliminated by 150 (first innings) is the same old story and we are fighting,” he said. “We probably should have gotten 250; I thought that was fine in that field.

“Dom put us back in the game (with seven wickets in the first inning) because we could have been found dead and buried. Then the way we did things in our second inning, we took them out of the game and then we took early terrain, and I thought we deserved the win at the end. “

Although Yorkshire’s lead was just 147 with six wickets in the second inning remaining at the start of the day, it always felt like they had the lead on a used surface that offered encouragement to bowlers.

They themselves felt that a goal of around 200 would be difficult to chase after, eventually dropping a 206 after their last four wickets added another 58 before Yorkshire was finally fired for 217 half an hour before lunch.

Brook made most of the scoring, advancing from his 76 overnight to a top-class third hundred hitting 168 balls. What made his entries particularly impressive was his maturity and restraint; Too often, Brook turns fifty and then exits, and Gale’s challenge is to win hundreds more.

“Harry has had a fantastic few weeks in T20, but that great entry into red ball cricket was lost, even though he’s had five (championships) out of the fifties,” Gale said. “But that game-winning inning was always there and it will give him confidence, and he’s a very solid guy who’s hungry for races.”

Gale admitted that he had been half expecting to be told that Brook had been called up to England’s one-day squad after Covid forced a complete personnel change ahead of the three-game series against Pakistan.

“When my phone rang at 6.30 this morning from Mo Bobat (ECB’s chief performance officer), and he told me the situation, I was quite convinced that he was going to tell me that Harry Brook was leaving just like Dawid Malan.” Gale said. .

“It would have been a good time to pick him because he’s so full of confidence, and I’m heartbroken for him in that sense because I don’t think he’s too far off. But if you keep doing that and keep your head down, that call will come either next week, winter, or next year. “

Northants’ hopes of carrying out a heist were soon in jeopardy when their hitter Ricardo Vasconcelos was pinned down in the final before lunch by the excellent Steve Patterson.

The wickets were shared as the hosts fell to 43-5 before a position of 54 between Luke Procter (42 *) and Tom Taylor (40) gave them hope. A 49th place at the ninth wicket between Procter and Simon Kerrigan also stopped Yorkshire before they usually found their way.