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Gerard Brophy: Made it look as though Yorkshire could win

Beneficiary Gerard Brophy, pictured, ran to an undefeated 65, but Yorkshire Second Eleven were saved by the weather and were lucky to escape with a draw after a wretched game of forfeits that was their Championship match with Northamptonshire at Headingley Carnegie.

Two forfeits set up a Yorkshire target of 305 to chase off 80 overs, and they were 138-5 with Brophy still on the bridge when the rain returned and the game went down.

Only 35 minutes of play were possible on Day 1, 96 overs being lost. Another 30 were claimed by the weather on Day 2, so it was no wonder that Northamptonshire were still batting in their first innings come the third morning.

Their 293-7 by the close of Day 2 featured two stands of 102 for the first wicket and 113 for the fourth compiled by the first five batsmen - the only failure being veteran David Sales, who was bowled by Steven Patterson for a single. The best of the Yorkshire bowlers was David Girling, who followed up his fine performance in the previous match with 3-39.

The two coaches played the forfeits game on the third morning. The visitors batted on for four overs to take four batting-bonus points as they passed the 300 mark, and the declaration and double forfeits challenged Yorkshire to make 305 to win their first Championship match of the season.

The target seemed eminently gettable, but bowlers led by the much travelled David Burton - Northamptonshire is his seventh county - saw to it that the hosts did not really get going. Even Adam Lyth was subdued, and that’s saying something, his 38 taking 93 balls.

Joe Sayers scored two off 23, Alex Lees eight off 30, Dan Hodgson a duck in eight and Girling faced 40 balls without getting off the mark. Brophy, batting against his old county, compiled his 65 in 99 balls, and was the only one to make victory look possible.

The fifth wickets fell as tea beckoned, and the Yorkshire innings looked all but over. Left-hand spinner Gurman Randhawa then entered the fray, and saw that it was not so as he partnered Brophy in a 28-run stand in 40 minutes of the last session.

The light had deteriorated, and the umpires decided that it was not good enough for play. Two or three inspections suggested no improvement, and there was a touch of drizzle in the air. The match was called off as a draw. A lucky escape? We will never know.

Two Championship matches remain left in the Seconds’ season - away to Leicestershire next week and at Worcester the following week. Surely Yorkshire can win one of them? Two victories would be even nicer!

Second XI Championship Yorkshire v Northamptonshire

Wednesday, August 10 2011 (11:00) at Headingley Cricket Ground

Drawn

Yorkshire won toss and decided to field

Northamptonshire (1st Innings)	Yorkshire (1st Innings)
304 for 8 dec (87.0 overs)	0 for 0 dec (0.0 overs)
5 Hours, 48 Minutes.	0 Minutes.
Northamptonshire (2nd Innings)	Yorkshire (2nd Innings)
0 for 0 dec (0.0 overs)	138 for 5 (53.0 overs)
0 Minutes.	3 Hours, 32 Minutes.

Northamptonshire (1st Innings)

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
RI Keogh	c Randhawa	b Ashraf	43	77	113	6	0	55.84
AM Reynoldson	c Brophy	b Patterson	52	82	109	8	0	63.41
PL Mommsen	c Hodgson	b Girling	76	125	157	12	0	60.80
DJG Sales		b Patterson	1	9	12	0	0	11.11
D Murphy*+	c Brophy	b Hannon-Dalby	48	89	117	4	1	53.93
DJ Willey	c Brophy	b Girling	29	38	61	4	0	76.32
CAL Davis	c Ashraf	b Girling	15	46	48	2	0	32.61
DS Lucas	not out		17	33	43	3	0	51.52
DA Burton	c Brophy	b Ashraf	9	26	33	1	0	34.62
BMR Akram
S Sweeney
T Brett
Extras	5b 3lb 0w 6nb 0pen		14
Provisional Score For Innings			304
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			304	for 8

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
I Wardlaw	16.0	2	64	0	0 (0)	2 (4)	0.00	4.00
OJ Hannon-Dalby	16.0	2	35	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	96.00	2.19
SA Patterson	16.0	4	54	2	0 (0)	1 (2)	48.50	3.38
MA Ashraf	15.0	2	55	2	0 (0)	0 (0)	45.00	3.67
DF Girling	12.0	3	39	3	0 (0)	0 (0)	24.00	3.25
GS Randhawa	12.0	1	49	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	4.08

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
AM Reynoldson	1-102	102	AM Reynoldson (52) RI Keogh (43)	25.4
RI Keogh	2-102	0	RI Keogh (0) PL Mommsen (0)	26.2
DJG Sales	3-103	1	DJG Sales (1) PL Mommsen (0)	29.2
D Murphy	4-216	113	D Murphy (48) PL Mommsen (60)	60.3
PL Mommsen	5-241	25	PL Mommsen (16) DJ Willey (9)	66.1
DJ Willey	6-274	33	DJ Willey (20) CAL Davis (13)	76.2
CAL Davis	7-281	7	CAL Davis (2) DS Lucas (5)	78.3
DA Burton	8-304	23	DA Burton (9) DS Lucas (12)	86.6

Yorkshire (1st Innings)

Batsman		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
A Lyth
AZ Lees
JJ Sayers*
DF Girling
GL Brophy+
DM Hodgson
CJ Geldart
GS Randhawa
SA Patterson
I Wardlaw
OJ Hannon-Dalby
MA Ashraf
Extras	0b 0lb 0w 0nb 0pen	0
Provisional Score For Innings		0
Penalties awarded following Innings		0
Total		0	for 0

Northamptonshire (2nd Innings)

Batsman		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
AM Reynoldson
RI Keogh
PL Mommsen
DJG Sales
D Murphy*+
DJ Willey
CAL Davis
DS Lucas
DA Burton
BMR Akram
S Sweeney
T Brett
Extras	0b 0lb 0w 0nb 0pen	0
Provisional Score For Innings		0
Penalties awarded following Innings		0
Total		0	for 0

Yorkshire (2nd Innings)

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
A Lyth		b Burton	38	93	127	5	0	40.86
JJ Sayers*	c Murphy	b Burton	2	23	32	0	0	8.70
AZ Lees	c Mommsen	b Sweeney	8	30	37	0	1	26.67
GL Brophy+	not out		65	99	141	9	1	65.66
DM Hodgson	lbw	b Brett	0	8	6	0	0	0.00
DF Girling	c Sales	b Burton	0	40	38	0	0	0.00
GS Randhawa	not out		16	29	38	2	0	55.17
CJ Geldart
SA Patterson
I Wardlaw
OJ Hannon-Dalby
MA Ashraf
Extras	0b 0lb 1w 8nb 0pen		9
Provisional Score For Innings			138
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			138	for 5

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
DA Burton	18.0	6	34	3	0 (0)	2 (4)	36.67	1.89
DS Lucas	11.0	3	21	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	1.91
S Sweeney	10.0	1	37	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	60.00	3.70
CAL Davis	3.0	0	9	0	0 (0)	2 (4)	0.00	3.00
T Brett	11.0	1	37	1	1 (1)	0 (0)	67.00	3.36

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
JJ Sayers	1-19	19	JJ Sayers (2) A Lyth (15)	8.2
AZ Lees	2-37	18	AZ Lees (8) A Lyth (10)	16.6
A Lyth	3-84	47	A Lyth (13) GL Brophy (30)	30.1
DM Hodgson	4-87	3	DM Hodgson (0) GL Brophy (1)	31.4
DF Girling	5-110	23	DF Girling (0) GL Brophy (23)	42.5