Yorkshire on high after Matthew Revis hundred, Dan Moriarty wickets
Gloucestershire 232 for five (Hammond 84*, Moriarty 3-79) path Yorkshire 550 for 9 dec (Revis 104*, Taylor 4-70) by 318 runs
Matthew Revis turned the third Yorkshire up-and-comer to put up a century of their dominant first-innings 550 for 9 declared in opposition to Gloucestershire at Headingley because the county went on the hunt for a second successive LV= Insurance County Championship victory.
Revis, 21, superior from 25 not out at first of day two to an unbeaten 104 off 163 balls, backing up the centuries opener Fin Bean and fellow allrounder George Hill had scored on day one.
Yorkshire declared within the first half of the afternoon earlier than an action-packed Gloucestershire reply of 232 for five from 57 overs noticed Miles Hammond breeze to an entertaining 84 not out off 95 balls.
Fledgling dwelling quick bowler Dom Leech had a superb day. He hit a profession finest 32 down the order earlier than claiming his maiden Championship wicket in his second look, added to 4 Bob Willis Trophy wickets in 2020. Surrey loanee left-arm spinner Dan Moriarty additionally claimed 3 for 79 from 20 overs for the hosts, though he conceded 5 sixes as Hammond attacked from 125 for 4.
Left-arm fast Matt Taylor was Gloucestershire’s standout performer with the ball, returning 4 for 70.
Just beneath 4 years in the past, when solely 17, Revis debuted as a gap batter in a season-ending Championship defeat in opposition to Kent right here. Since then, he has developed into an allrounder used extra as a seam bowler. But his expertise with the willow has at all times been evident.
He has beforehand scored first-team fifties in opposition to each the pink and white ball, however this was unquestionably the Sedbergh School graduate’s breakthrough innings.
Of course, it has been a giant couple of weeks for Sedbergh School. Last week, their present girls’s star Mahika Gaur of Thunder made her England A debut, whereas Hill and Revis are former pupils. Another alumni Harry Brook, in the meantime, is carrying the hopes of a nation within the Ashes.
Revis slog-swept his solely six, added to 10 boundaries, and was notably sturdy by way of the covers. But he was compelled right into a nervous pursuit of the 4 remaining runs to succeed in his century when Australian abroad seamer Mark Steketee was stumped off Zafar Gohar’s left-arm spin.
With the assistance of final man Moriarty, they got here in singles and a canopy pushed boundary nearly instantly earlier than the declaration.
Revis and aforementioned fellow Sedberghians Hill and Brook are Yorkshire by way of and thru. One man who is not however made a noteworthy day two influence was Surrey squad man Moriarty.
His transfer to Yorkshire on a four-game Championship mortgage spell caught the attention over the weekend given the very fact he was changing offspinner Dom Bess, he of 14 England Test caps.
Bess simply hasn’t been on the races persistently within the Championship this season, and Yorkshire’s administration have opted to have a look at an alternative choice. And it was a choice which reaped rewards within the type of a trio of wickets both facet of tea, though Moriarty did get lofted down the bottom for 5 sixes – 4 from left-handed Hammond – having began with three maidens in his first 4 overs.
He has solely performed two Championship matches for Surrey because the begin of final season however was shortly into the wickets.
After Leech broke by way of to get Chris Dent caught within the slips driving for 34, Moriarty trapped South African abroad Grant Roelofsen lbw pushing forwards with what proved the final ball of the afternoon – Gloucestershire 80 for two within the twenty second over.
Moriarty later had Ben Charlesworth caught at slip for 35 driving and captain Graeme van Buuren caught behind pulling. The Charlesworth dismissal was queried for a bump ball, however Gloucestershire have been 125 for 4 within the thirty second over.
Though issues modified, and fairly shortly too as the superb Hammond took the sport on and gained removed from sluggish assist from wicketkeeper James Bracey.
Hammond reached his fifty off 60 balls and shared 96 for the fifth wicket with Bracey, whose 44 was ended when he edged Adam Lyth’s offspin to slide, leaving the rating at 221 for five. This was part-timer Lyth’s first bowl of the season.