Chewie
BCCI President
4th May 2011
Worcestershire vs Yorkshire
County Championship -D2
Worcestershire vs Yorkshire
County Championship -D2
Playing XI?s
Worcestershire
1. Vic Kelly
2. Daryl Mitchell
3. Vikram Solanki
4. Niall O'Brien
5. Alex Kervezee
6. Tony Stack
7. David Wheeldon
8. Alan Richardson
9. Chanaka Komasaru
10. Steven Finn
11. Boyd Rankin
Yorkshire
1. Jacques Rudolph
2. Andrew Gale
3. Jonathan Bairstow
4. David Wainwright
5. Adil Rashid
6. Richard Kenworth
7. Ajmal Shahzad
8. Adam Lyth
9. Tim Bresnan
10. Steven Patterson
11. Oliver Hannon-Dalby
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Yorkshire win by 3 wickets
A first innings collapse put us behind, and we never really recovered, despite a spirited second innings performance. Solanki played a lone hand at the top of the order, while the rest of the batting fell to pieces around him, thanks to some good bowling from Bresnan and the spinners. On a spinning pitch, I backed Komasaru to bowl just as well as Wainwright and Rashid and he responded with a six-for, but not before they had overtaken our first innings total by nearly 100 runs. Mitchell was dismissed for a duck, but half centuries from 4 of the top 5 had us off to a good start, and we looked like setting a decent total for Yorkshire to chase. Wheeldon and Richardson provided some resistance down the order, as we made our way to 383, giving them 292 to chase in one day. Despite a number of early breakthroughs, Rudolph and later Kenworthy steadied the chase, with an aggressive knock by Shahzad eventually getting them over the line. It was dissapointing to see that despite the pitch being excellent for spin, Komasaru and Wheeldon only managed 2 wickets between them in the fourth innings - it would appear that they spin the ball as much as Vettori, who is known for not being able to bowl out sides in the fourth innings. We gained a measly 3 points from this match, due to our shocking batting effort, and currently sit second bottom on the table, above the recently relegated Somerset, who have less points despite having a game in hand.