Fit File – YORKS vs GLAM 18th Fit, Might 03 – 06, 2024

Yorkshire 295 for two (Bean 140*, J Root 92*) lead Glamorgan 221 (B Root 51, Bess 4-25, Moriarty 4-74) via 74 runs

Glamorgan began day two on 109 for 4 and have been bowled out for 221 right through the early afternoon, with off-spinner Bess finishing a very good 4 for 25 from 13 overs and left-armer Moriarty 4 for 74.

Department Two promotion favourites Yorkshire then batted undoubtedly and serenely on a used pitch appearing extra indicators of flip, achieving 295 for 2 from 49 overs when unhealthy gentle stopped play with 12 to bowl.

Unbeaten opener Bean hit a occupation easiest 140 off 145 balls and Root 92 now not out off 90. They shared 201 unbroken for the 0.33 wicket.

Whilst present England celebrity Root nears his moment successive Championship century, former England spinner Bess carried out in his first fit of the season.

Those have been his easiest top notch figures for Yorkshire because the opening sport of 2023 when he claimed a second-innings 5 for 158 in defeat in opposition to Leicestershire right here.

Since then, he has been dropped via Yorkshire, been on two one-game loans at Warwickshire and Somerset and spent his wintry weather enjoying home cricket in Zimbabwe, the place he claimed a first class haul of 5 for 99 for Southern Rocks.

The Devonian, within the closing 12 months of his contract, began this summer time in Yorkshire’s moment group and in the back of Moriarty within the pecking order.

However this show was once a reminder of the numerous ability which introduced the 26-year-old 14 Check caps, the closing of which got here in early 2021.

Bess and Moriarty began the day with one and two wickets respectively.

Moriarty made the morning leap forward when he had Chris Cooke neatly stuck at the reduce at quilt via Harry Brook, finishing a 65-run stand with Colin Ingram – 162 for 5 within the 56th over, the day’s fifteenth.

Ingram was once then trapped lbw via Bess with handiest his moment ball of the day, for 48, leaving the rating at 182-6.

After lunch, each males had batters stuck at short-leg.

Moriarty had James Harris stuck off bat and pad earlier than Bess had Tom Bevan stuck at the opposite sweep for 22, once more via Bean, because the ball looped up off glove within the following over – 208 for 8.

Bess then struck once more when he had Jamie McIlroy stuck at backward square-leg pulling.

The next over, Mir Hamza top-edged a slog sweep at Moriarty and was once stuck in the back of to finish the innings in 79 overs.

Six wickets fell in all right through the afternoon, two of them within the early levels of Yorkshire’s answer, regardless of it advancing at tempo to tea at 106 for 2 from 20.

Adam Lyth was once trapped lbw via Pakistani in a foreign country fast Hamza earlier than his compatriot Shan Masood, for 34, was once stuck at short-leg off Mason Crane’s leg-spin.

Yorkshire then upped the pace even additional within the night time, with Bean – dropped on six via Harris off his personal bowling – and Root in partnership.

They took toll on a Glamorgan assault lacking some key group of workers via harm.

On-loan Crane was once put underneath explicit drive, going for 77 in handiest 8 overs. Bean two times slog-swept him over long-on each side of achieving his moment fifty of the season off 62 balls. Root adopted him to that milestone off 44.

51 runs had come within the first 5 overs of the night time, and the third-wicket pair did not let up in a show which can also be easiest summed up as males in opposition to boys.

Belligerent Bean reached his century off 111 balls and hit two extra sixes, whilst Root was once all contact and timing. He would have were given there however for the sunshine intervening.