County Championship: Adil Rashid hits 88 in Yorkshire fightback
Lancashire had reduced Roses rivals to 29-4 at Headingley
Monday 30 May 2016 10:28, UK
Adil Rashid's 88 rescued Yorkshire against Roses rivals Lancashire and left the sides' Specsavers County Championship clash evenly poised after day one at Headingley.
Rashid's half-century, achieved during a sixth-wicket stand of 136 with Tim Bresnan (69), helped the hosts rebuild after they had slipped to 29-4 against the Division One table toppers.
Kyle Jarvis (4-74), the top wicket taker in this term's Championship with 28, banished Alex Lees and Gary Ballance for ducks and Jack Leaning for 10, while Adam Lyth (four) was ousted by Tom Bailey.
Yorkshire skipped Andre Gale (36) began the fightback, before Rashid and Bresnan - the latter playing his first four-day game of the season due to injury - and a ninth-wicket stand of 75 between Steven Patterson (41no) and Andrew Hodd (40) saw the Tykes through to 301-9.
Middlesex's Dawid Malan (147) and Adam Voges (128no) made Hampshire toil on the opening day at Merchant Taylors' School, with a third-wicket partnership of 279 steering the hosts to 342-3.
Hampshire, looking to back up last week's win over Nottinghamshire, reduced Middlesex to 14-2 with the early scalps of Sam Robson (two) and Nick Gubbins (four) but had to wait another 70 overs for their next breakthrough, Malan caught off Liam Dawson.
Gareth Batty's seven-wicket haul for Surrey shot out Somerset for 102 on day two in Taunton, though the visitors' own batting woes dented their victory push.
Somerset wilted once an opening stand of 46 between Marcus Trescothick and Tom Abell was broken, the West Country outfit losing 10 wickets for 56 runs and their final six for 13.
Batty, who removed Trescothick, Chris Rogers and Peter Trego before mopping up the tail, recorded figures of 7-32 from nine overs, with Stuart Meaker collecting the three other Somerset scalps.
Surrey, dismissed for 264 in their opening dig, then crumbled to 51-6 before Zafar Ansari (26no) and Ben Foakes (14no) lifted that to 94-6 by stumps, the London county holding a lead of 256 runs.
Riki Wessels (159no) and Bret Hutton (74), meanwhile, helped Nottinghamshire rack up 534 against Durham before being bowled out on day two, the pair sharing a seventh-wicket stand of 197.
Wessels recorded his 19th first class ton and first of the 2016 campaign, while Hutton trumped his previous best score by two before he was caught off leg-spinner Scott Borthwick (5-79).
Australia seamer Jackson Bird (4-59) then set about Durham as the away side closed on 193-4, Borthwick (59no) and Paul Collingwood (38no) adding an unbeaten 72 as the North East side shaved their deficit to 341.
