Yorkshire County Cricket offer fans highs and lows

by Admin | June 27th, 2006

Yorkshire County Cricket Club will have mixed emotions over their progress so far this season after impressing in one day games, but struggling with their first class cricket.

The campaign has already had several highs, with Michael Vaughan’s injury comeback and Tim Bresnan’s England debut providing the Yorkshiremen with talking points.

However, their form in the County Championship has been far from impressive, suffering 4 defeats and not winning yet this season. Without Darren Lehman’s batting prowess it could have been worse; he managed to hit a massive 193 runs to force a draw with Kent.

Form in the C & G Trophy has been better, where Yorkshire picked up a 6 wicket victory in their roses battle against Lancashire. At one stage they even looked like challenging for top spot in the Northern League which would have earned them a place in the final at Lords. However, defeat on the last ball against Steve Harmison and Durham put an end to that hope.

While Yorkshire have been struggling, their pace bowler Matthew Hoggard has been enjoying a rich vein of form as England’s opening bowler in the recent test series with Sri Lanka. Although the series was tied, Hoggard looked menacing after taking 15 wickets.

This season has also marked the Yorkshire debut of Australian Ashes flop Jason Gillespie. The world’s highest scoring night watchman has continued his form with the bat, helping out Yorkshire with a 144 9th wicket stand with Tim Bresnan against Hampshire.

While Yorkshire will miss out in the C & G Trophy, they will be hoping for an exciting Twenty20 Cup campaign, starting this week against Durham. They will also be looking to improve on their very poor County Championship form, attempting to move up the table with the 4 home fixtures still to come.

With Matthew Hoggard back from international duty to spearhead the bowling attack with Gillespie, and Vaughan looking to play himself back in to form, a day out at Headingley may be worth the cheap price of admission

County Championship - Division 1