Debuts at Headingley.

Posted by Brian Sanderson.

On sunny Tuesday morning I walked round to Headingley to collect some autographs.Two new players were playing with different backgrounds. One Chris Rushworth aged 23 out of Sunderland Premier League side and Tino Best from West Indies. He has played 14 Tests and 12 O.D.I.
I joined Andrew to watch the match.He had sent off from London at 5 O,Clock in the morning to be here for the start.Yorkshire won the toss and batted.Rushwoth and Davies opened the bowling .The last time I saw Davies at Arthington in October playing friendly cricket.
Lyth and Sayers started well with Lyth scoring very freely.At lunch it was 124 for 0.
After lunch Lyth was caught a slip by Di Venuto off Blackwell for 85 with 16 fours making Yorkshire record opening stand of 146.Durham attack were without Steve Harminson , Graham Onions and Mich Claydon.
Next to go was Sayers for 63 a more quieter innings.
For the rest of the afternoon McGrath and Rudolph batted to the end of the day. 100 were overs were bowled and saw the sight of all the players sit down for five minutes to have a drink.So that Durham did not bowl to many overs.
Yorkshire scored 304 leaving them to score another 46 runs in 10 overs to get another batting point. Why they did increase the scoring rate I do not know.
For the record Rushworth bowled 13 overs for 53 runs with no wickets. The wicket was slow and did not suit his style of bowling.
See what to-morrow will bring.