Eight in a day for Lee as Yorkshire trounce MCC
James Lee, right, took eight wickets in a day as Yorkshire bowled MCC Young Cricketers out twice to win their Second Eleven Championship match by an innings and 110 runs.
Yorkshire continued at Stamford Bridge from their overnight total of 466-3, with Gary Ballance 200 not out. Skipper Craig White decided that he needed 500 - a job that was completed in six and a half overs.
Ballance was fourth man out for 212 runs - the seventh-best individual score for Yorkshire in the Second Eleven Championship.
Four MCC Young Cricketers were out by lunchtime, and a fifth fell immediately afterwards with only 102 on the board. Opening bowler Steven Patterson and left-arm spinner Gurman Randhawa had a couple each, and Michael Chadwick the other. It would be an uphill struggle for the Young Cricketers to avoid the follow-on. Chadwick doubled his tally, and paceman Lee returned: James demolished the tail in a six-over spell, taking 4-14, and the visitors needed 326 runs to make Yorkshire bat again.
Lee reopened the bowling for the follow-on, and met batsmen who seemed to lack discipline. Rather than get their heads down and bat for this evening they struck 61 slap-happy runs in the 11 overs before tea - and lost three valuable wickets.
Young Cricketers captain Michael Richardson and Ben Eckersley went for more caution - but both were out in three balls. 82-5...then the bowlers’ spirits were dampened as Gary Brown and Glenn Querl - a compatriot of Ballance - got their heads down to add a century. Brown even managed a seven - a three plus four for a return from one boundary which evaded wicket-keeper Guy and went to the opposite one! The pair added 103, but both were leg-before to Lee in successive overs.
Seven wickets were down when the day’s last over was bowled, and the umpires had no hesitation in agreeing to White’s request for the extra half-hour to wrap it up...but it was a close run thing: the last wicket was taken with the fifth ball of the last possible over.
Victory by an innings and 110 runs - Yorkshire Seconds’ best Championship win so far this season and the fourth in the continuing winning run. Tougher opponents than the Young Cricketers will have to be faced sooner or later - will that be next week when the Seconds face Nottinghamshire at Headingley Carnegie?
Day 1: Ballance plundered 200 not out, and Jonathan Bairstow 147 as Yorkshire tore MCC Young Cricketers to ribbons. Yorkshire hardly had time to celebrate their Trophy victory against the same opponents the previous day before they won the toss for the three-day game on a renowned batsmen’s paradise.
Captain Craig White had no hesitation in choosing to bat - and the Young Cricketers were condemned to a day in the hot sunshine: by the close they had taken only three wickets as Yorkshire rampaged their way to 466.
Try as the bowlers might, run after run flowed from the bats, and they must be sick of the sight of Ballance. Carrying on from where he left his Trophy innings the day before, Gary was to face 349 balls over the 388 minutes in the day.
Gary put on 59 for the first wicket with Chris Taylor, 160 for the second wicket with Joe Root - and 238 for the third wicket with Bairstow. Ballance put the backbone into the innings - but it was Bairstow who iced the cake with his four sixes and 17 fours, 92 runs in boundaries out of his 147.
Most of the spectators stayed to watch the most scintillating period of the day. The MCC Young Cricketers must be relishing the prospect of batting today - so long as a Yorkshire declaration spares them any more punishment.
Yorkshire 2nd XI 1st Innings: GS Ballance c Thompson b Saffell 212 (26 fours), CR Taylor c Richardson b Querl 32 (5 fours), JE Root c Richardson b Saffell 79 (8 fours and 1 six), JM Bairstow (wicket-keeper 2st Innings) c Eckersley b Bracewell 147 (17 fours and 4 sixes), LJ Hodgson b Saffell 16 (2 fours), SM Guy (wicket-keeper 2nd innings) not out 3, SA Patterson not out 7 (1 four). Extras (b 1, lb 3, w 1) 5
Total (5 wkts dec, 110.3 overs) 501
DNB: C White (captain), JE Lee, G Randhawa and MS Chadwick
Twelfth Man: OJ Hannon-Dalby
FoW: 1-59 (Taylor), 2-219 (Root), 3-457 (Bairstow), 4-484 (Ballance), 5-490 (Hodgson)
Bowling: Clarke 10-1-25-0, Querl 21.3-2-95-1, Saffell 20-2-109-3, Beaven 17-2-62-0, Dhar 15-0-78-0, Tucker 3-0-17-0, Bracewell 10-0-43-1, Thompson 13-2-62-0, Eckersley 1-0-6-0
MCC Young Cricketers' 1st Innings: MG Bracewell c Bairstow b Patterson 20 (2 fours), GR Brown c White b Patterson 2, MJ Richardson (captain and wicket-keeper) lbw b Randhawa 43 (5 fours and 1 six), JG Thompson c Bairstow b Chadwick 21 (3 fours), EJ Eckersley c Taylor b Randhawa 8 (2 fours), CJ Baugh lbw b Lee 35 (4 fours), RG Querl lbw b Chadwick 12 (1 four), LE Beaven c Bairstow b Lee 4, AD Clarke not out 18 (3 fours), GD Dhar c Bairstow b Lee 4 (1 four), OHJ Saffell b Lee 0. Extras (b 1, lb 2, nb 4) 7
Total (50 overs) 174
Twelfth Man: MT Tucker
FoW: 1-6 (Brown), 2-31 (Bracewell), 3-85 (Thompson), 4-91 (Richardson), 5-102 (Eckersley), 6-127 (Querl), 7-131 (Beaven), 8-168 (Baugh), 9-174 (Dhar), 10-174 (Saffell)
Bowling: Lee 13-1-48-4, Patterson 10-3-25-2, Hodgson 4-0-25-0, Chadwick 9-3-18-2, Randhawa 13-3-50-2, Root 1-0-5-0
MCC Young Cricketers' 2nd Innings (following on): MG Bracewell c and b Lee 7 (1 four), CJ Baugh c Ballance b Patterson 7 (1 four), JG Thompson c Hodgson b Lee 14 (3 fours), MJ Richardson (captain and wicket-keeper) c Taylor b Chadwick 36 (6 fours), EJ Eckersley b Hodgson 16 (3 fours), GR Brown lbw b Lee 45 (6 fours and 1 six), RG Querl lbw b Lee 59 (8 fours), LE Beaven lbw b Randhawa 5 (1 four), AD Clarke lbw b Randhawa 15 (1 four), GD Dhar not out 3, OHJ Saffell c Root b Randhawa 4 (1 four). Extras (b 2, w 1, nb 2) 5
Total (51.5 overs) 216
FoW: 1-10 (Bracewell), 2-28 (Thompson), 3-34, 4-82 (Richardson), 5-82 (Eckersley), 6-185 (Querl), 7-190 (Brown), 8-198 (Beaven), 9-211 (Clarke), 10-217 (Saffell)
Bowling: Lee 16-3-53-4, Patterson 8-0-34-1, Randhawa 14.5-1-75-3, Chadwick 5-1-11-1, Hodgson 2-1-2-1, Ballance 4-0-30-0, Root 2-0-9-0
Result: Yorkshire won by an innings and 110 runs
Yorkshire 22 points; MCC Young Cricketers 1 point
Umpires: GD Lloyd and H Evans. Scorers: M Snook and PD Tilley