YORKSHIRE heading for promotion.

Yorkshire sealed promotion back to Division One of the County Championship after dominating day three against Northamptonshire.

Promotion rivals Middlesex were bowled out for 271 by Sussex, which left Yorkshire needing 350 in their first innings to secure second place in the table.

Adam Lyth (147) and James Wharton (162 not out) hit centuries as Yorkshire got the three batting bonus points they required and reached the close on 371-2.

Yorkshire were relegated to Division Two by one point in 2022, and then docked 48 points last season for their handling of the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal.
 
Maccarone said:
Any record significance in 726?
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Yorkshire's second highest ever first class total, apparently.

It's a bit weird that they declared with nothing riding on it now, you'd have thought they'd have tried to set a new record whilst they could.

The record is 887.
 
Well having spent today there I will insert my two penneth worth.

It is the highest score Yorkshire have got in Yorkshire, but what a pointless exercise it was. Yes let Wharton get his double hundred but then declare and try to win the game, they were already pronoted what could they lose. Make it interesting for the reasonable sized crowd that stuck with it on a blooming cold day.

Instead, Gibson brags in his interview after the game, that they decided to park the bus - I wish he had told me this was the plan before the game and then I could have gone home and got warm. watching the footie. I lasted until 3pm before giving up.

I was disappointed with the attitude on display today with regards to the paying public. Maybe I should just accept as Alan Durban once said when he was manager at Stoke, if you want entertainment, go and watch the clowns (and I don't think he meant Lancashire)
 
junos_boots said:
Well having spent today there I will insert my two penneth worth.

It is the highest score Yorkshire have got in Yorkshire, but what a pointless exercise it was. Yes let Wharton get his double hundred but then declare and try to win the game, they were already pronoted what could they lose. Make it interesting for the reasonable sized crowd that stuck with it on a blooming cold day.

Instead, Gibson brags in his interview after the game, that they decided to park the bus - I wish he had told me this was the plan before the game and then I could have gone home and got warm. watching the footie. I lasted until 3pm before giving up.

I was disappointed with the attitude on display today with regards to the paying public. Maybe I should just accept as Alan Durban once said when he was manager at Stoke, if you want entertainment, go and watch the clowns (and I don't think he meant Lancashire)
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Agreed, no regard for those that paid to watch
 
I stayed to the end just to applaud the team, but we should have declared at lunch. A real end of season feel about the day, Northamptonshire looked really dejected in the field.
 
I wonder if there was an element of protecting the bowlers from injury on a cold day? We’ve been hit hard by them in our bowling department this season with both Coad and Fisher, amongst others, missing chunks of the season. I do think it may have been fair to level with day four crowd regarding that strategy yesterday, if that was the case.
 
Yorkshire have the nucleus of a good team but will probably sign a few more players. There isn’t a great gap between the 2 leagues, but England will come calling now we are back up there.
 
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