Madsen misses hundred as Yorkshire take grip in Scarborough
Yorkshire 297 and 179 for two (Bean 64) lead Derbyshire 247 (Madsen 93, Wagstaff 52, Thompson 3-48, Fisher 3-54) by 229 runs
Wayne Madsen narrowly missed out on a century in his 2 hundredth first-class look for Derbyshire as Yorkshire seized management of the LV= Insurance County Championship match on day two at Scarborough.
Madsen, 39, impressed with a really watchable 93 off 140 balls in Derbyshire’s 247 all out as they replied to a first-innings 297. Opener Mitch Wagstaff additionally posted 52 – his maiden fifty in solely his seventh first-team fixture. But Madsen was one in every of seven afternoon wickets to fall as his aspect slipped from important well being at 173 for 3 to concede a lead of fifty.
Seamers Matthew Fisher and Jordan Thompson each claimed three wickets apiece for Yorkshire, who later added to that lead with 179 for two from 38 second-innings overs. Openers Fin Bean and Adam Lyth shared 100 inside 21 overs, their sixth successive Championship stand above 50. Bean top-scored with 64 earlier than being run out backing up.
While Thompson’s 3 for 48 from 20.1 overs ensured he completed with the decide of the house figures, beginning with a wicket within the day’s opening over, Fisher was wonderful throughout the afternoon. He put the skids beneath Derbyshire on a pitch missing tempo in a fiery five-over spell yielding two wickets.
He bowled each Matt Lamb and Anuj Dal, beating them for tempo with deliveries which saved low. Lamb’s off stump went cartwheeling because the rating fell to 193 for six.
Winding again to the beginning of the day, which Derbyshire began on 47 for 1, Thompson had Brooke Guest caught behind within the opening over.
Wagstaff, 20-years-old, began day two on 32 and reached his fifty off 99 balls. This is just his second first-class fixture. The in any other case composed left-hander was then the second morning wicket to fall when ruffled by a Fisher brief ball which he miscued to square-leg, leaving the rating at 103 for 3.
Derbyshire then pressed forward with a 70-run stand both aspect of lunch between Madsen and captain Leus du Plooy, who made 30.
Madsen had reached his fifty off 67 balls earlier than lunch, together with a six over long-on towards Ben Coad – and he regarded extraordinarily fluent early in his landmark look for Derbyshire.
Madsen, who hit three successive fours in a single Fisher over, has had an fascinating historical past with Yorkshire, a county who have been beforehand eager on his signature.
In 2013, he gained the inaugural Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Elite Award in recognition for strolling of his personal accord in a Championship match between these two counties at Chesterfield that season. Steve Patterson’s attraction for caught behind was turned down, however Madsen walked. He went on to attain 141 within the second innings of a defeat. Yorkshire’s curiosity in signing him was across the identical time.
Last yr, Madsen made his four-hundredth all-format look for Derbyshire in a Vitality Blast sport at Headingley. In this yr’s identical fixture, he narrowly missed out on posting a world report sixth successive T20 half-century.
With him and du Plooy settled after lunch, Derbyshire regarded effectively set for a first-innings lead. However, the course of the fixture was about to alter. Thompson, who thought he had du Plooy caught behind on 20, eliminated him caught at first slip on 30, leaving the rating at 173 for 3 within the 51st over.
Then got here Fisher’s aforementioned twin strikes earlier than Matthew Revis bowled Alex Thomson. And when Madsen edged one other seamer George Hill into the gully seven in need of three figures, Derbyshire have been 209 for 8 within the 68th over.
Zak Chappell and Sam Conners meatily struck some helpful decrease order runs – 20 and 15 respectively – earlier than falling caught off Revis and Thompson respectively.
Bean and Lyth, who made 43, then additional rubber-stamped Yorkshire’s wonderful day with a dominant night alliance. They regarded in little bother, although Lyth was caught at slip trying to assault offspinner Thomson, who then deflected a James Wharton drive on to the non-striker’s stumps to run Bean out.
Wharton and captain Shan Masood – 29 and 41 – then shared an unbroken half-century partnership by way of to shut.
Yorkshire are on monitor for his or her second win of 2023. Their first was towards Derbyshire at Chesterfield in June.