da bet sport： Another captain’s innings from Andrew Gale and a fluent 90 from opener AdamLyth earned Yorkshire a six-wicket win over Somerset with 10.1 overs remainingin the Championship match at Headingleyencounter at Headingley Carnegie
18-Apr-2010
ScorecardAndrew Gale’s unbeaten 64 took his side to their second successive victory•Getty Images
Another captain’s innings from Andrew Gale and a fluent 90 from opener AdamLyth earned Yorkshire a six-wicket win over Somerset with 10.1 overs remainingin the Championship match at Headingley.The hard-earned victory was Yorkshire’s second in consecutive matches at thestart of the season and it gave them a clear lead at the top of the Division Onetable. It was also their first Headingley success in exactly two years.Having left Yorkshire to make 198 off 56 overs, Somerset were still in with ashout themselves when they had the home side struggling on 61 for 3 but Lythand Gale soon began to dominate events in a sparkling stand of 107 in 23 oversto put the result beyond doubt.Lyth looked certain to register the second first-class century of his careerbut, just ten runs short, he gloved David Stiff for Craig Kieswetter to take aleg-side catch. Gale, who plundered 101 in the first innings, was now in full flow himself and he thrashed Stiff for three fours in one over to end the contest and finishunbeaten on 64 from 84 deliveries with ten boundaries.Yorkshire had made a hesitant start to their chase, losing Joe Sayers to acatch behind the wicket off Damien Wright before he had scored, and it became 17for 2 when Anthony McGrath fended a lifting ball from Alfonso Thomas to MarcusTrescothick at first slip.Zander de Bruyn claimed Jacques Rudolph’s wicket in the first over of his spellbut Lyth and Gale soon calmed the nerves of the home fans. The chances of a swift Yorkshire victory in the morning quickly faded as Somerset’s seventh-wicket pair of de Bruyn and Wright built on their side’s overnight lead of 55.They added 42 at a run-a-minute before Wright was lbw to Oliver Hannon-Dalbybut de Bruyn continued to look sound until he, also, fell to the 20-year-oldpaceman.Having just received a bouncer, de Bruyn took evasive action against the nextball which did not get up as much as he anticipated and it hit the bat for TimBresnan to take a great one-handed catch diving to his right at second slip. DeBruyn looked crestfallen at his departure for 83 off 134 balls with ten foursand a six. Bresnan had just returned to the field after a short break for treatment on aslight knee injury.Despite Hannon-Dalby’s double breakthrough, Somerset continued to displayplenty of fighting spirit, former Yorkshire second-teamer Stiff now assistingThomas in extending the lead. Stiff showed his prowess by cleanly driving David Wainwright high over long-off for six but Thomas was fortunate that his slash at Hannon-Dalby went through Wainwright’s hands as he just failed to pull off a difficult overhead catch atbackward point.The ninth-wicket stand extended into the afternoon session and was worth 74when wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow dropped a sitter from Stiff but, off the nextball at the start of a new over from Hannon-Dalby, he made amends by pouching acatch to send back Thomas for 44.Hannon-Dalby wound up the innings by having Stiff caught high at first slip byRudolph to give the youngster his second five-wicket haul in consecutive matchesand take his wicket tally to 13 at an average of 17.30 runs apiece.