da fezbet： A great bowling performance by 18-year-old paceman Moin Ashraf kept aliveYorkshire’s hopes of beating Kent at Headingley Carnegie and snatching the titlein the final Championship match of the season
14-Sep-2010
ScorecardA great bowling performance by 18-year-old paceman Moin Ashraf kept aliveYorkshire’s hopes of beating Kent at Headingley Carnegie and snatching the titlein the final Championship match of the season.The Bradford-born fast bowler, who had earlier featured in a 52 stand for thelast wicket, finished the second day with figures of 3 for 16 in nine oversin only his second Championship appearance.Kent, who need to win to stay in the First Division, closed on 216 for 6which left them trailing by 45 runs on the first innings. Rain and a wet ground meant the second day could not get under way until after an early lunch had been taken but hopes that Jonny Bairstow could go on to complete a maiden century were quickly dashed because he managed to add only one to his overnight 63 before he was caught at second slip by Martin van Jaarsveldoff Dewald Nel.In his next over, Nel claimed a sixth wicket for the first time in his careeras Oliver Hannon-Dalby fell lbw but last man Ashraf gave valuable support toSteve Patterson in a 10th-wicket stand of 52 which took Yorkshire to 261 andearned them an unexpected second batting bonus point.Ashraf, dropped before he had scored and again on five, took 20 balls to getoff the mark while Patterson played some excellent attacking strokes as well asgetting away with a couple of Chinese cuts.Spinner James Tredwell was called upon for his first bowl of the innings andhis third delivery had Ashraf nicking a catch to wicketkeeper Geraint Jones,leaving Patterson unbeaten on 39 from 59 balls with seven fours.The pitch, less green than on the first day, had lost some of its pace and SamNortheast and Joe Denly made a promising start to Kent’s reply, although Denlyshould have been caught by Bairstow at second slip on 15 when Ajmal Shahzadfound the edge.Yorkshire were in need of a breakthrough and it came from Hannon-Dalby who hadDenly taken at third slip by Adil Rashid. In the following over, Shahzad accounted for Northeast, superbly caught by Gerard Brophy diving low to his right in front of first slip.Kent’s innings was bolstered by some attractive batting by Van Jaarsveld in an83 stand in 18 overs with Rob Key. The South African thumped Shahzad over square leg for six and a long hop from Rashid received similar treatment as he dashed to his half-century off 55 balls, the second big hit also giving him 1,000 first class runs for the season.Key had also punished Rashid with two boundaries in the leg-spinner’s firstover but the bowler gained his revenge by trapping him lbw for 25 with agoogly. Ashraf then struck twice to leave Kent on 142 for 5. He pinned DarrenStevens lbw before he had scored and shattered Jones’ stumps with a perfectyorker.The pendulum kept swinging one way and then the other and Kent hit back with asixth-wicket stand between Van Jaarsveld and Alex Blake as the evening shadowslengthened. The pair eased their side past the 200 mark and a batting bonus point butAshraf rejoined the attack to deny Van Jaarsveld his century by having himcaught behind for 89 from 128 balls with seven boundaries.