Change of captain, change of attitude around the place by the sound of it.



The young batters at the top of the order who the club have invested time and patience in such as Sayers, Lyth, Gale and Bairstow have all hit good form at the start of the season too, backing up the bowling attack.



Yes, it's only Essex and they are racing certainties to finish bottom, but to win by an innings with your two best quicks out of the side is quite an achievement IMO.

bairstow is an excellent player, could go a long way in the game

and dont forget we were on top against durham before the weather took its toll, over 1100 runs in the last 2 innings

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This is all getting a bit tedious. Will someone out there give us a game?

When the T20 starts I'd be tempted to leave him out, get Brophy in and give him time to work with someone like Jack Russell on his keeping.



Still concedes too many byes IMO, although thankfully his catches are sticking.



Good to see another Academy product coming in yesterday in Ben Sanderson and doing well.

Nice to see Brophy come in and gets straight amongst the runs!

One of the good things about this season so far has been the way players have come into the side and made positive contributions, it's not just a first XI that are doing the business.



Still, I'll keep my healthy scepticism that I save for all the teams I follow and insist that it's bound to go tits-up sooner or later!

17 wickets at Edgbaston so far today. Last 2 Lancs wickets from the first innings, Warwickshire bowled out for 113, and Lancs now 21-5.

Wonder why Lancs didn't enforce the follow on?

Lancs now 43-6 at tea

God only knows, big chance to get a innings win, or have a very small run chase.



Hope this shocking second innings won't throw away what should be a win. Still, if the tail can wag and get us up to 200, sets a target of 450-ish, which should be far too much, and 2 days to get 10 wickets.



Otherwise, seems the Yorkies are finally getting a game, seems we won't be the ones to bring them crashing down to earth in a giant fireball

I think the reason for Lancs not enforcing the follow-on is to give Jimmy Anderson a chance to bowl

Lancs need to get Trott out early in the morning or they could throw away what should have been an easy win after what happened in the 1st innings.

Yorkshire are in danger of losing this game!



Not sure when the close of play is tonight but Somerset have a chance of winning it, could be a a blunder to declare so early.. espeically now it seems Notts will either beat Hampshire or their game will be a draw, after Hampshire looked comfortably earlier on in the day.

Close of play is 1800 so Somerset have 25mins to get 40odd runs



Wins so far for Lancs

and Durham

Yorkshire have indeed been beaten by Somerset! Superb effort by Somerset, Hildreth with an awesome 102 off 70 balls!



On the flip side, It looks like Hampshire will beat Notts too, surprisingly after one bit, interesting stuff with the top 2 sides losing. Opens everything out now.



Well it's 18:09 and Hampshire need 7 to win with 2 wickets left.

Looks like there will be less of you Yorkies on here in the next few days going on and on about how good you are



Notts well ahead of you and Lancs just 6 points behind you with both teams having a game in hand.It's not going to be as easy as you lot thought it would be is it.

Tits up it has indeed gone!

Yorkshire lost chasing the win, better than sitting it out for the draw like the old days

Well done to Yorkshire and the people who changed the scoring system this year

Yup, there were only two realistic results on that pitch heading into the last day - Yorkshire were unlikely to be able to bowl Somerset out and force the win.



With the difference of only four points between a loss and a draw these days though, it was worth taking the gamble and seeing if they got reckless in their chase?



Isn't this the second year in a row Somerset have chased down a massive target to beat Yorkshire in the last innings at Taunton?



Given that Yorkshire were missing their two best bowlers and their captain it's a bit rich to start saying it's all gone belly up on the basis of that one defeat.

My comment was merely about the Somerset game, not the season

Did somebody say it was gonna be easy??

Oh well, a thumping on TV, luckily its the we-were-already-out-of cup, so sod that, rather win the T20 one instead

This may have already been mentioned but cba/ too lazy to trawl through all 30 odd pages of this thread. How long have teams been able to use 12 players during a championship game? Notice Lancs did it in their last game against Warwickshire and Essex have nominated 12 playes today.

Yorkshire back in the saddle straight away against Hampshire at Southampton today.



Put in to bat by the home side, 115-0 at lunch.



No Lumb or Pietersen for Hants, no Bresnan or Shahzad for Yorkshire. Gale back for Ballance, Pyrah in for Wainwright as the fourth seamer.