Charity wonder winner in Bairstow row
As play began at Headingley on Friday it was once 8pm in Wollongong, now not some distance south of Sydney, and the rugby league recreation between St George Illawarra Dragons and Canberra Raiders was once concurrently getting underneath means. Australia’s NRL is these days operating a promotion known as Try July, through which a sponsor coughs up $5,000 to charity for each and every novelty take a look at party witnessed around the month, and the Raiders were making plans. Eight mins into the sport Jordan Rapana scored a attempt to the Raiders crew headed to the nook, the place Elliott Whitehead โ a Yorkshireman, born in Bradford โ mimed taking guard and his teammates used the oval ball to recreate Jonny Bairstow’s controversial stumping at Lord’s. “Oh the stumping โ and the Pom is out!” gushed commentator Dan Ginnane.
Yorkshire look ahead to listening to result
Yorkshire’s most sensible brass had been in London ultimate week, to not benefit from the Lord’s Test however to provide their case at a sanctions listening to of the Cricket Discipline Commission. They be expecting to be told the result later this month and on Friday their leader govt, Stephen Vaughan, mentioned the membership would “take it on the chin, show some contrition and move on”. But he was once now not a kind of solid into recent depression by means of the e-newsletter of the new, damning ICEC file. โTake this the right way,โ mentioned Vaughan, โmost of us at Yorkshire were very pleased with what we saw. And what I mean by that is a lot of the work we’ve been doing rightly in the last 18 months, Cindy Butts in her review was almost shining a mirror on exactly what we’ve been up to. Her review has really vilified a lot of the work we continue to do here.” He probably meant recognized โ Yorkshire have probably been vilified enough for now.
Anderson’s labors spark bad memories for Gough.
Jimmy Anderson’s labors in the first two Tests, at Edgbaston and Lord’s, earned sympathy from one of Yorkshire’s favorite sons in the shape of Darren Gough, for whom they sparked memories of his last two Test appearances, against different opponents in South Africa but at exactly the same venues and exactly 20 years ago. “They asked me to come back, told me not to worry, it would do a bit,” he remembered. “Those pitches were so flat. Graeme Smith scored double centuries in both games, and I was knackered.” Just 32 at the time, Gough immediately hung up his spikes. โWhen you know, you know,โ he mentioned.
Root suffers that sinking feeling
Joe Root was dismissed in the first over of the second day, caught Warner, bowled Cummins for 19. This was at least an improvement on his last innings, on Saturday at Lord’s, which ended when he was caught Warner, bowled Cummins for 18. It was the sixth time Warner has caught him โ the Australian still needs one more to catch up with Steve Smith, but no other outfielder has caught Root more than four times, nor have either Warner or Smith caught anyone else more than four times. This is personal, and deeply one-sided: Root and Warner have now faced each other 30 times in Tests but despite spending many of those games at slip Root has caught Warner just twice (while Zak Crawley, who stands right next to Root in the Cordon, has managed it five times in six games, including twice in this one). There can’t have been a more one-sided battle since the one in Birmingham’s Walkabout bar in 2013 that so infamously started the Root-Warner hostilities.