Shan Masood’s 192 places Yorkshire in complete command in opposition to Glamorgan
Glamorgan 150 for six (Carlson 53*) path Yorkshire 500 (Masood 192, Bean 93, Hill 71) by 350 runs
Yorkshire skipper Shan Masood prolonged his highest rating for the county to 192 as he led his facet to most batting factors in opposition to Glamorgan on the second day of their LV= County Championship conflict at Sophia Gardens.
The Pakistani Test star dominated the day as soon as once more as he constructed on his in a single day tally of 113. That had led his facet to an in a single day rating of 330 for 3, which then grew to 500 earlier than their first innings ended with a run out within the 122nd over.
Yorkshire then tightened their grip on the sport by dismissing six house batsmen earlier than the top of the second day to go away the Welsh county reeling at 150 for six, nonetheless trailing by 350 runs and doubtlessly dealing with the follow-on. A battling, unbeaten half-century from Kiran Carlson saved Glamorgan’s hopes alive
Masood was on the coronary heart of his facet’s third rating of 500 this summer season and he introduced up his 150 off 191 balls with 15 fours. He was lastly overwhelmed eight runs wanting what would have been his third championship double century – he scored two for Derbyshire in 2022 – when he was caught by Sam Northeast off the bowling of James Harris.
He loved two century partnerships – 127 with Finlay Bean and 132 with George Hill – and
placed on 53 for the sixth wicket with Matthew Revis because the Yorkshire batsmen dominated the house bowling.
Yorkshire misplaced George Hill for 71, Jonny Tattersall for six and Revis for 28 within the morning session as they went into lunch have secured their 5 batting factors by reaching 448 for six from 107 overs.
No sooner had Masmood departed, than Jordan Thompson went the very subsequent ball from Harris, and it solely took Glamorgan an extra 5 overs to mop up the tail. It was nonetheless not sufficient, although, to earn them the three bowling factors they wanted to maintain alive their exterior hopes of staying within the promotion race.
Midway by means of the day the news got here by means of that Durham had gained promotion to Division One because of Leicestershire’s failure to earn any batting bonus factors in opposition to Sussex. The north-east county want a most of 5 factors from their final two video games to seal the Division Two title.
After struggling defeat at Worcester final week, the goal for Glamorgan was to win the sport with a full set of bonus factors, however set the tall order of chasing 500 they then bought off to a poor begin with the bat.
Zain ul Hassan was bowled by the final ball of the fifth over from Ben Coad for eight and when the skilled Colin Ingram had his bails despatched flying within the air by Jordan Thompson for 5 three overs later, Glamorgan had been struggling at 19 for two.
By the top of play that they had had been lowered to 6 down after Dom Bess had clear bowled Sam Northeast for 16, Revis had ended his first over by eradicating Eddie Byrom for 40 after which had Billy Root caught behind for 4.
The Yorkshire tempo man ended the day for 3 for 20 from his 5 overs.