Unsettling pace

Somerset 267 all out
v Yorkshire 42-3
close on Day 1

County Championship Division One

Played at Scarborough

Monday 3 July 2017

Twitter @ball_sup

Ditto.

Batting vulnerability. Frailties. Catching practice. See many previous Blogs. Lyth 4 off 15. Lees 12 off 32. Handscomb 2 off 5. You're 21 for 3 from 11 overs.

But, man. It was great to see Plunkett again. He's an athlete. Fielding in those short mid on/mid off positions. He'll stop the lot. In that discipline, his hand/eye coordination is ridiculous. He's also bowled the most overs (21). Taking four for 73. The perspective is that Rashid went for 74 off just 13 overs. Rash suffered. A lot. From a free flowing 61 run 10th wicket stand.

It looked to me like the strip was just pacy. Plunkett, at his pace, just unsettles people. Maybe they're not hopping & jumping. But, their trigger movements & judgement of length are shot. You end up with (for eg) Lewis Gregory getting bowled round his legs shuffling across. There were a good few plays & misses. And, could have been chopped ons. But, for once, YCCC capitalised a bit. And got amongst the wickets. But, it got away from them at times. From 200-8 to 268.

And then the Somerset bowlers let some pace go. 42-3. We're back where we started.

All of which was discussed at some length in Indigo Alley. Behind….

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