Mm, Cook was specifically not released by the ECB for the game. I guess they figured he didn't need the practice, so better have the rest and not risk injury / catching a sniffle.
I wasn't exactly praying for rain the other day, but I was quite glad of it! Don't think our 2nd innings would have stood up well.
It was always going to be tricky to set a good declaration target, even without taking into account the rain. Ravi and at least one of his partners (Mills I think, the number 11) delayed matters long enough to mean that the tykes had to get some proper runs on the board, and not just a token boost. I thought that the Essex lower order did themselves more justice in the first innings than Yorkshire's, managing to string another 80 odd runs out of the last few wickets, while the Tykes collapsed from about 192 for two, to all-out in the space of fewer than 60 runs.
Still, I like to think that you are right, Sidebottom, Shahzad & Co would have been a handful on the 4th day, and very few players for any team have made batting look exactly easy so far this season.
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I wasn't exactly praying for rain the other day, but I was quite glad of it! Don't think our 2nd innings would have stood up well.
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Still, I like to think that you are right, Sidebottom, Shahzad & Co would have been a handful on the 4th day, and very few players for any team have made batting look exactly easy so far this season.
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