Bairstow On Form As Yorkshire Draw With Durham

Rothesay County Championship Division One, Banks Homes Riverside (day four)

Yorkshire 307 & 277-6: Bairstow 86*, Lyth 53; Ackermann 2-49, Raine 2-69

Durham 427: Lees 172, Gay 152; White 3-76

Durham (15 pts) tie pinch Yorkshire (13 pts)

Match scorecard

Captain Jonny Bairstow posted an unbeaten 86 arsenic Yorkshire thwarted a depleted Durham onslaught to unafraid a County Championship tie astatine nan Riverside.

Bairstow shared half-century partnerships for nan 5th and sixth wickets pinch all-rounders George Hill and Matthew Revis during nan greeting convention arsenic Yorkshire, who started nan time connected 132-4 successful their 2nd innings, starring by 12, reached 232-5 astatine lunch.

With a lead of 112, Yorkshire had taken nan sting retired of nan business and continued to build their lead earlier rainfall arrived conscionable earlier 3:00pm pinch nan people connected 277-6

Durham will rue nan nonaccomplishment of injured seamers Paul Coughlin and Brendan Doggett but claimed 15 points and ended a two-match losing start.

Bairstow's 167-ball effort included 11 fours and represented his 2nd 50 of nan summer.

Coughlin's abdominal problem was sustained connected time 1 and seems much serious. Australian overseas Doggett, however, went complete connected his ankle and was not connected nan section purely arsenic a precaution.

It meant skipper Alex Lees, who scored a first-innings 172, was near pinch only 4 bowling options connected time 4 - tireless new-ball seamers Ben Raine and Matthew Potts, mean pacer Will Rhodes and nan part-time off-spin of Colin Ackermann.

And Durham had to usage their 40-year-old batting coach Will Gidman arsenic a substitute fielder.

Bairstow started the, which began pinch nan floodlights on, pinch only 2 runs to his name, but he was quickly retired of nan blocks pinch a mates of boundaries disconnected Potts successful nan day's opening over.

The business meant that Bairstow, who played nan past of his 100 Tests for England to day successful March past year, was ne'er going to beryllium wholly dominant. But he was acold from becalmed against some nan aged shot and past nan new.

He shared a fifth-wicket guidelines of 59 pinch Hill, who contributed 24 earlier pulling Ackermann to mid-wicket.

Bairstow was beardown connected nan propulsion against Potts and past Raine, either broadside of reaching his 50 disconnected 91 balls, and drove different eye-catching bound almost arrow consecutive disconnected Rhodes.

Revis moved into nan 20s pinch a mates of back-foot boundaries disconnected Raine conscionable earlier luncheon pinch immoderate ray rainfall falling.

After lunch, Potts had a five-over spell which Yorkshire negated. But by then, it felt arsenic if nan sting had been taken retired of nan business pinch nan threat of rainfall increasing.

Potts bowled 50 overs successful this lucifer - 20 successful nan first innings and 30 successful nan 2nd - for 3 wickets and has sent down 139 successful 3 matches truthful acold this season. Raine, meanwhile, has bowled 141 overs - nan astir successful Division One.

Ackermann had Revis caught down disconnected nan inside-edge connected 40, leaving Yorkshire 272-6 - a lead of 152.

That ended a 96-run business pinch Bairstow, who was denied nan chance to station a 32nd profession first-class period by nan weather, but his number 1 nonsubjective of steering his broadside to information - and 13 points - had been achieved.

Umpires Martin Saggers and Surendiran Shanmugam called a adjacent astatine 4:00pm.