2ND CHAMP: Force-feeding ends in a damp squib

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Gerard Brophy, who hit 10 fours and two sixes in his second-innings 81

Garard Brophy, above, battered his way to 81 and Charlie Roebuck 46 not out as Yorkshire took advantage of "force-feeding" to set Nottinghamshire a challenging target on Day 3 of their Second Eleven Championship match. Then rain returned to mock the sportsmanship of both sides.

This was the match in which 18 wickets crashed on Day 1 at Lady Bay, Nottingham, and all-rounder Richard Pyrah recorded his first Championship five-for. Day 3 began with Yorkshire 43 ahead with eight second-innings wickets standing, and the hosts strove with might and main to take the wickets.

Brophy and Callum Geldart resisted the onslaught, and survived well into the second hour before Geldart was caught off the slow bowling of Scott Elstone. Too little too late...so Plan B was actioned "force-feed" or declaration bowling!

Brophy sailed past the 50 mark and Roebuck walloped the boundaries. Brophy was stumped after lunch off the very occasional bowling of opening batsman Alex Hale, and Pyrah helped himself to a run a ball - but took care not to score too quickly and ruin the target arithmetic.

The target was set - 241 to win off a minimum of 55 overs. The only snag? After three overs the rain returned to bring a premature end to the chase. That was that. A draw. Let’s hope the weather has dried up for the visit to Derby next week.

DAY 1: Eighteen wickets! Probably a case for the pitch inspectors at a higher level, but not for the Second Eleven Championship at Lady Bay, along the road from Trent Bridge.

Perhaps it was local knowledge that made Nottinghamshire captain Mullaney ask Yorkshire to bat - particularly when the home side included one-Test wonder Darren Pattinson and Charlie Shreck, both returning after injuries.

Pattinson cartwheeled Joe Root’s stumps early doors, but that was the only early success for the two bowlers, although three more wickets were captured by the lunch interval - two by Andrew Carter and one by Lancastrian exile Mullaney.

The White Rose must be a red rag to the bull for Mullaney - he went on to take five more wickets in the afternoon, his 6-39 easily the best of his Second Eleven Championship bowling performances to date.

Yorkshire's 182 could not present too much of a problem to the Nottinghamshire batsmen? It did: in 80 minutes before tea five wickets were captured for 67 runs - including a third-ball duck for Samit Patel, caught behind in Ben Sanderson’s second over.

Six runs later came the sixth wicket...but Simon Elstone and Greg White then got their heads down, adding 14 runs in a seventh-wicket stand which equalled the Nottinghamshire record against Yorkshire for that wicket in the Championship. Both partners fell within nine balls five overs before the close, Nottinghamshire were 17 runs ahead with two wickets in hand

DAY 2: The lead was extended by 39 runs when play was resumed - Pyrah clinched the last two wickets to finish with his first Championship five-for.

Root and Gary Ballance wiped out the arrears and took Yorkshire two dozen ahead before Ballance was caught by that man again, Mullaney, off Carter - and six runs later the Lancastrian trapped Root leg-before on the stroke of lunch.

Rain delayed the restart, but relented sufficiently to allow another four overs and a lead extended to 43 runs before it became more persistent and ended play at 2.30pm.

Second XI Championship Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire

Thursday, April 29 2010 (11:00) at Lady Bay Cricket Ground, Nottingham

Day 3: Yorkshire lead by 238 runs Yorkshire 296 for 4 dec (66.4 overs)

Nottinghamshire won toss and decided to field

Yorkshire (1st Innings)	Nottinghamshire (1st Innings)
182 for 10 (49.3 overs)	238 for 10 (62.2 overs)
3 Hours, 13 Minutes.	3 Hours, 50 Minutes.
Yorkshire (2nd Innings)	Nottinghamshire (2nd Innings)
296 for 4 dec (66.4 overs)	2 for 0 (3.0 overs)
4 Hours, 2 Minutes.	11 Minutes.

Yorkshire (1st Innings)

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
JE Root		b DJ Pattinson	4	16	19	1	0	25.00
GS Ballance		b A Carter	27	59	95	5	0	45.76
CG Roebuck	c A Patel	b A Carter	27	56	67	6	0	48.21
GL Brophy*+	c S Kelsall	b DJ Pattinson	37	62	75	6	0	59.68
RM Pyrah	c A Patel	b SJ Mullaney	11	32	37	2	0	34.38
LJ Hodgson	lbw	b SJ Mullaney	5	15	12	1	0	33.33
A Rafiq		b SJ Mullaney	9	14	22	0	0	64.29
CJ Geldart	c A Patel	b SJ Mullaney	5	29	38	0	0	17.24
JM Hughes		b SJ Mullaney	5	9	14	1	0	55.56
BW Sanderson	c SA Stanworth	b SJ Mullaney	0	8	9	0	0	0.00
G Randhawa	not out		6	5	7	0	0	120.00
Extras	16nb 5w 7lb 18b 0pen		46
Provisional Score For Innings			182
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			182	for 10

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
DJ Pattinson	16.0	5	45	2	0	6	51.00	2.81
CE Shreck	13.0	0	47	0	4	1	0.00	3.62
A Carter	8.0	2	26	2	1	1	25.00	3.25
SJ Mullaney	12.3	3	39	6	0	0	12.50	3.12

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
JE Root	18-1	18	JE Root (4) GS Ballance (5)	4.2
CG Roebuck	92-2	74	CG Roebuck (27) GS Ballance (21)	19.4
GS Ballance	94-3	2	GS Ballance (1) GL Brophy (0)	21.4
RM Pyrah	140-4	46	RM Pyrah (11) GL Brophy (29)	31.6
LJ Hodgson	148-5	8	LJ Hodgson (5) GL Brophy (3)	35.6
GL Brophy	162-6	14	GL Brophy (5) A Rafiq (7)	40.2
A Rafiq	164-7	2	A Rafiq (2) CJ Geldart (0)	41.4
JM Hughes	170-8	6	JM Hughes (5) CJ Geldart (0)	45.2
BW Sanderson	174-9	4	BW Sanderson (0) CJ Geldart (4)	47.5
CJ Geldart	182-10	8	CJ Geldart (1) G Randhawa (6)	49.3

Nottinghamshire (1st Innings)

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
AD Hales	run out (MA Ashraf)		7	12	8	1	0	58.33
A Patel	c JE Root	b RM Pyrah	19	45	62	1	0	42.22
SR Patel	c GL Brophy	b BW Sanderson	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
SJ Mullaney*	c GS Ballance	b LJ Hodgson	27	43	56	5	0	62.79
SKW Wood	c GL Brophy	b RM Pyrah	2	4	8	0	0	50.00
S Kelsall	c RM Pyrah	b BW Sanderson	3	13	17	0	0	23.08
SL Elstone	c GL Brophy	b A Rafiq	60	85	107	10	0	70.59
GG White	c JE Root	b RM Pyrah	55	77	98	6	2	71.43
SA Stanworth+	not out		28	53	59	4	1	52.83
DJ Pattinson	c GS Ballance	b RM Pyrah	15	31	33	1	0	48.39
CE Shreck	c GL Brophy	b RM Pyrah	0	14	19	0	0	0.00
Extras	12nb 7w 1lb 2b 0pen		22
Provisional Score For Innings			238
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			238	for 10

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
BW Sanderson	12.0	2	36	2	1	2	37.50	3.00
MA Ashraf	18.0	3	56	0	1	1	0.00	3.11
RM Pyrah	18.2	1	71	5	1	1	22.40	3.87
LJ Hodgson	8.0	1	46	1	0	2	50.00	5.75
A Rafiq	6.0	0	26	1	0	0	36.00	4.33

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
AD Hales	8-1	8	AD Hales (7) A Patel (1)	2.1
SR Patel	8-2	0	SR Patel (0) A Patel (0)	2.4
A Patel	55-3	47	A Patel (18) SJ Mullaney (27)	16.3
SJ Mullaney	57-4	2	SJ Mullaney (0) SKW Wood (2)	17.4
SKW Wood	59-5	2	SKW Wood (0) S Kelsall (2)	18.1
S Kelsall	71-6	12	S Kelsall (1) SL Elstone (9)	21.5
SL Elstone	185-7	114	SL Elstone (51) GG White (54)	45.3
GG White	187-8	2	GG White (1) SA Stanworth (1)	46.6
DJ Pattinson	212-9	25	DJ Pattinson (15) SA Stanworth (8)	56.6
CE Shreck	238-10	26	CE Shreck (0) SA Stanworth (19)	62.2

Yorkshire (2nd Innings)

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
JE Root	lbw	b SJ Mullaney	41	70	90	8	0	58.57
GS Ballance	c SJ Mullaney	b A Carter	37	57	76	6	0	64.91
CJ Geldart	c A Patel	b SL Elstone	32	101	134	3	1	31.68
GL Brophy*+	st SA Stanworth	b AD Hales	81	123	139	10	2	65.85
CG Roebuck	not out		46	28	44	7	1	164.29
RM Pyrah	not out		27	27	15	4	0	100.00
Extras	12nb 0w 2lb 18b 0pen		32
Provisional Score For Innings			296
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			296	for 4

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
DJ Pattinson	16.0	3	50	0	0	3	0.00	3.13
CE Shreck	6.0	1	29	0	0	0	0.00	4.83
A Carter	13.0	3	39	1	0	2	80.00	3.00
SJ Mullaney	10.4	6	25	1	0	0	64.00	2.34
GG White	5.0	2	10	0	0	0	0.00	2.00
SL Elstone	4.0	0	26	1	0	0	24.00	6.50
A Patel	6.0	0	51	0	0	0	0.00	8.50
SKW Wood	2.0	0	20	0	0	0	0.00	10.00
AD Hales	4.0	0	26	1	0	1	25.00	6.50

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
GS Ballance	80-1	80	GS Ballance (37) JE Root (40)	19.3
JE Root	86-2	6	JE Root (1) CJ Geldart (5)	22.6
CJ Geldart	168-3	82	CJ Geldart (27) GL Brophy (29)	51.4
GL Brophy	248-4	80	GL Brophy (52) CG Roebuck (27)	61.1

Nottinghamshire (2nd Innings)

Batsman		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
AD Hales	not out	1	12	11	0	0	8.33
A Patel	not out	0	6	11	0	0	0.00
Extras	0nb 0w 1lb 0b 0pen	1
Provisional Score For Innings		2
Penalties awarded following Innings		0
Total		2	for 0