Haider Ali, Leus du Plooy stun Yorkshire with breathless counter-attack
Derbyshire 111 (Fisher 5-30) and 248 for 4 (Haider 129*, du Plooy 96*) lead Yorkshire 353 (Malan 106, Masood 67, Watt 5-83) by six runs
A superb exhibition of counter-attacking batting by Leus du Plooy and Haider Ali halted Yorkshire’s victory cost in its tracks and rescued Derbyshire on the second day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match at Chesterfield.
Derbyshire’s resolution to maneuver Haider down the order – from opening to No. 6 – proved to be impressed because the Pakistani batter scored his first century for the county and shared an unbroken record-breaking fifth-wicket stand with du Plooy.of 231 from 311 balls.
They had come along with Derbyshire heading for defeat at 17 for 4 after Dawid Malan‘s 106 guided Yorkshire to 353 and a lead of 242 with Scottish spinner Mark Watt taking a career-best 5 for 83.
But du Plooy’s 96 and Ali’s 129 lifted the house facet to 248 for 4 and a lead of six when unhealthy mild adopted by {an electrical} storm ended play with 10 overs left within the day.
Yorkshire had appeared set for a fair larger lead till the dismissal of Malan sparked a collapse that noticed the final 5 wickets fall for 28 runs.
Malan accomplished his second hundred of the season from 130 balls however when he didn’t get sufficient on a lofted drive at Watt, Suranga Lakmal took off to his left at mid-off to carry a superb catch. Lakmal harm his proper elbow when he fell however was capable of take the second new ball though it was the spinners who did the harm.
Dom Bess was bowled as he pushed out at Alex Thomson and after dispatching Watt for a giant six over long-on, Jordan Thompson drilled the left-armer to mid-on. Matthew Revis edged a giant drive at Ben Aitchison earlier than Watt snared his fifth sufferer when Fisher drove to long-off on the stroke of lunch.
Yorkshire’s benefit was nonetheless a considerable one and it appeared greater than sufficient when Derbyshire’s prime order folded for the second time within the match. Coad struck in his second over from the Pavilion End when a full size ball beat Harry Came’s defensive push and Luis Reece went within the subsequent over.
Fisher trapped Reece on the crease and Wayne Madsen went with out scoring after he pushed out at Coad and was caught at first slip. When Fisher discovered the surface fringe of Matt Lamb’s bat, a two-day end appeared on the playing cards however after an uncomfortable begin, du Plooy and Haider counter-attacked to place Yorkshire on the again foot.
Bess got here in for heavy punishment with Haider coming down the pitch to drive his offspin for six and du Plooy swept him for his tenth 4 to succeed in 50 off 61 balls.
Haider compelled Revis behind sq. to go to his half-century from 60 balls and when Coad returned to the assault, he dispatched him for 3 fours within the over. Bess was launched down the bottom for an additional six and by tea, the partnership was 150 in 29 overs with the arrears now right down to 75.
It had been a spirited response to what appeared a hopeless place and it was Yorkshire who now had some issues to unravel. They slowed the scoring price at first of the final session however there have been few indicators of the breakthrough Yorkshire have been determined for.
Haider swept Bess for his sixteenth 4 to succeed in an impressive century after which opened up by taking 4 boundaries in an over from the spinner.
The pair handed Derbyshire’s earlier highest fifth wicket stand towards Yorkshire of 184 by John Eggar and Alan Revill at Bradford in 1949 and when the climate closed in, it was the guests who have been relieved to get off the sector.