Masood carries Yorkshire hopes after du Plooy 170 offers Derbyshire a glimmer
Yorkshire 353 and 147 for six (Masood 68*, Watt 3-46) want an additional 65 runs to beat Derbyshire 111 and 453 (du Plooy 170, Haider 146)
Shan Masood holds the important thing for Yorkshire with the LV=Insurance County Championship match towards Derbyshire within the steadiness after a pulsating third day at Chesterfield. The Yorkshire captain was unbeaten on 68 however his staff misplaced late wickets chasing 212 and closed on 147 for six with 65 extra runs wanted.
Derbyshire skipper Leus du Plooy made an excellent 170 and shared a fifth wicket stand of 277 with Haider Ali who scored 146 as the house facet made 453 to arrange an exhilarating finale.
Matthew Fisher and Dom Bess each took three wickets earlier than Derbyshire’s innings ended when Suranga Lakmal was hit by a brief ball and changed by concussion substitute Zak Chappell.
Yorkshire appeared to be cruising on 140 for 3 however spinners Mark Watt and Alex Thomson took three wickets in 4 overs to boost Derbyshire’s hopes of pulling off a outstanding victory.
The guests prospects of chasing a less-demanding goal rapidly evaporated on one other scorching morning at Queen’s Park. Although they bowled lots higher than on the second day, there have been few issues for du Plooy and Haider after they negotiated the opening burst from Ben Coad and Fisher.
Fisher made du Plooy work for his hundred, opening with a maiden to the Derbyshire skipper, earlier than a brief ball was pulled to the midwicket boundary.
The stand had develop into the second-highest by Derbyshire at Chesterfield when Haider moved throughout his stumps to work George Hill to leg and was lbw though the ball seemed to be taking place. It had been an excellent innings from Haider, who scored 100 of his runs in boundaries and with du Plooy had given his staff an opportunity of pulling off a memorable victory.
If Yorkshire thought his departure would open the door, they have been disenchanted as du Plooy and Brooke Guest survived towards the brand new ball to go in at lunch with a lead of 97.
Du Plooy reached his 150 from 272 balls and the stand with Guest was price 67 when a ball change did the trick for Yorkshire. Guest scooped a catch to brief midwicket when Bess obtained one to grip however there was extra frustration for the guests when du Plooy got here down the pitch and Jonny Tattersall failed to finish a troublesome stumping.
Bess was hoisted for six by Alex Thomson however in his subsequent over, du Plooy’s very good innings ended when he edged an enormous drive and was caught at slip. The England spinner had bowled lots higher after a chastening second day and Watt’s try to reverse sweep him resulted in Tattersall’s gloves.
Ben Aitchison drove Fisher low to cowl and after Thomson pulled Bess out of the bottom, Lakmal was hit on the again of the neck after ducking into a brief ball from Fisher.
He was in a position to stroll off the sector however couldn’t proceed and was retired out with Chappell changing him and opening the bowling with Yorkshire dealing with a a lot larger goal than they might have anticipated when Derbyshire have been 17 for 4 on day two.
Adam Lyth and Finlay Bean diminished the goal by 38 earlier than Bean drove Thomson low to cowl and the spinner virtually had Masood first ball when an edge simply evaded Wayne Madsen at slip
Lyth and Masood took the rating to 63 however the return of Watt on the Lake End introduced an instantaneous reward when Lyth was lbw going again and throughout to a faster ball. With Dawid Malan unable to return in till the autumn of the fifth wicket after being off the sector with a groin downside. Hill joined Masood however was run out when he didn’t beat Aitchison’s throw from level.
Masood and Tattersall have been steering Yorkshire dwelling however Tattersall was lbw to 1 that stored low from Thomson earlier than Watt eliminated Fisher and Matthew Revis to present the sport one other twist.