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Root spins a route for resounding Yorkshire victory
- Updated: May 11, 2016
Yorkshire 557 for 6 dec (Root 213, Bairstow 198, Rashid 60*) beat Surrey 330 (Davies 117, Sangakkara 73) and 207 (Sangakkara 61, Davies 52) by an innings and 20 runsScorecard
With the Dickie Bird clock creeping beyond half past two, Surrey’s third-wicket pair of Kumar Sangakkara and Steven Davies proceeding without alarms and Yorkshire’s captain Andrew Gale making a stern-faced retreat from the fray with a bruised knee, few would have given much for Yorkshire’s chances of forcing victory at Headingley.
Even with a first-innings lead of 237 to sustain them, the feeling was growing that this would ultimately be just another draw to join the weather-hit stalemates around the country. Such an outcome would have meant four successive draws for Yorkshire, a statistic that would have begun to eat away at a county with designs on a hat-trick of Division One titles.
Little more than three hours later, they found themselves top of the Championship for the first time this season – a resounding victory by an innings and 20 runs duly completed, the end coming with 4.5 overs left when Liam Plunkett had the last man Matt Dunn lbw with a full-length ball.
Lancashire’s place at the summit had been limited to a couple of hours, which added extra cross-Pennines piquancy, and it was not long before an assistant was dutifully carrying in boxes of celebratory beer and cider from the mini market on the other side of Kirkstall Lane.
Surrey will adapt to first division life but their head coach, Michael di Venuto, drew a pertinent message from the outcome. “We were champions of Division Two, they are champions of Division One, that’s the difference,” he said.
The catalyst for the victory, one which their director of cricket Martyn Moxon accepted would quell a few misgivings, was the Golden Child. Joe Root can do no wrong these days, for Yorkshire or England, but his worth is normally weighed in runs. This time he took over captaincy duties, wasted little time in introducing his own offspin with two …
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