Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Scarborough (day four)
Yorkshire 469 & 246-6 dec: Luxton 69, Hill 65*, Bairstow 62; Hannon-Dalby 2-25
Warwickshire 263 & 333-8: Hain 69, Barnard 58, Webster 49; Hill 3-32
Warwickshire (12 pts) draw with Yorkshire (16 pts)
Warwickshire thwarted Yorkshire for the second time this season to earn a draw in their County Championship match at Scarborough.
Yorkshire had much the better of this Division One fixture between two counties with two wins to their name and were confident of a claiming a third at the start of day four, with the Bears 44-1 chasing an unlikely 453.
Warwickshire slipped to 93-4 inside the first 17 overs of the day, but Sam Hain underpinned the revival bid with a skilful 69 off 218 balls.
He shared fifth and sixth-wicket partnerships of 87 and 86 with Beau Webster and captain Ed Barnard, whose 58 represented his second half-century of the match. Both fell inside the final 20 overs, but the Bears clung on to close on 333-8.
Warwickshire are now fourth in the table on 98 points, five behind leaders Essex. Yorkshire are seventh on 87.
Yorkshire enjoyed a profitable morning with three wickets. Two of them went to superb catches.
The first was a one-handed return catch going to his right from George Hill to remove Alex Davies. The second a fine tumbling effort just inside the long-on boundary rope from Jack White to help Hassan Ali remove nightwatch Ethan Bamber, who had played nicely for 23.
Hill (3-32 from 14 overs) also had Dan Mousley caught at second slip on the drive in the same over as that Davies dismissal – the 21st over of the innings, the sixth of the day.
Australian Webster offered a return catch to Ben Cliff early in his innings but survived to reach lunch on 27 alongside Hain. Warwickshire were 139-4.
There were only brief signs of aggression as Webster and Hain cautiously shared 87 for the fifth wicket and were looking settled.
Although Webster did move to 49 with two boundaries through cover off the back foot against Dom Bess’s off-spin. However, playing back again later in the over, he was bowled as the score slipped to 180-5 in the 59th.
Hain dispatched a Bess full toss for six over long-on en-route to his 142-ball fifty.
He found another partner in Barnard, and they took the score to 237-5 at tea with 35 overs remaining.
Hain navigated seam and spin confidently, including the short-ball tactic from Cliff either side of tea. Barnard, meanwhile, backed up his first-innings 83 not out.
Yorkshire got the use of a new ball with a minimum of 31 overs left in the day.
At one point, Hassan switched the bails around at the striker’s end as he bowled to Hain for a change of luck. So Hain put them back as they were, only for Jonny Bairstow to run from behind the stumps and switch them back again – much to the amusement of the crowd.
Yorkshire’s hopes increased when Bess had Hain caught at short-leg to make it 266-6 with the best part of 19 overs remaining.
And even more so when Matthew Revis had Barnard caught behind with 13.3 overs left.
But Zen Malik and Manav Suthar completed Warwickshire’s survival task even though the latter fell for 37 to Hassan with five balls remaining. Malik finished unbeaten on 20.
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.
