County round-up: Root flourishes at Notts' expense
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Your support makes all the difference.James Whitaker's purpose at Trent Bridge was to run the eye over Andrew Gale as the England selectors assess who might be ready to fill Paul Collingwood's shoes in the Test team but if the Yorkshire captain did himself no favours yesterday, the Whitaker notebook will have at least have one name to file under future reference.
Yorkshire closed on 291 for 3 on a rare day of dominance for bat over ball at the Nottingham ground, thanks in no small measure to an innings of much promise from 20-year-old Joe Root, who appears to be seizing the opportunity offered to him by Jacques Rudolph's departure with a maturity beyond his years.
The Sheffield-born Root's career has been closely monitored by Michael Vaughan, and there is much in the young man's manner at the crease to suggest he has learned a good deal from watching the former England captain. Tall and upright, he has displayed calm and patience in much of what Yorkshire have seen from him so far in his debut season and he added something more against Nottinghamshire yesterday, passing 50 for the first time in a first-class match and ending on 89 not out, although he did have a let-off close to stumps when he was put down in the slips.
Gale, who scored a masterly 145 when these sides met at Headingley two weeks ago, fell on 32 this time, caught by Adam Voges, running around from slip, after miscuing an attempted sweep. Earlier, benefiting from a short boundary on the Bridgford Road side, Adam Lyth and Joe Sayers had shared a century stand for the first wicket.
Sayers, whose season last year was badly disrupted by post-viral fatigue syndrome, looked somewhere near his best before edging Luke Fletcher but a half-century from Jonny Bairstow brought further punishment to a Notts attack lacking the injured Charlie Shreck and with Andre Adams nursing a sore elbow.
Runs flowed also at the Rose Bowl, where Ed Joyce completed his second century in as many innings and he and Chris Nash picked up where they had left off against Lancashire last week. The Sussex openers had rescued their side with a stand of 169 after Lancashire enforced the follow-on at Hove and followed up against Hampshire with 191 yesterday, setting a ground record by Sussex for any wicket.
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