Leaders Notts beat rain to seal win over Yorkshire

Rothesay County Championship Division One, Headingley (day four)

Nottinghamshire 228 & 393-8: Clarke 94; Coad 3-64

Yorkshire 159 & 299: Wharton 58; Pennington 5-106

Notts (19 pts) hit Yorkshire (3 pts) by 163 runs

Match scorecard

Five-wicket paceman Dillon Pennington helped Nottinghamshire complete a 4th triumph successful 7 matches, this 1 against Yorkshire astatine Headingley soon earlier beverage connected time four, to fortify their position astatine nan Division One acme successful nan County Championship.

Struggling Yorkshire were group a 463-target during nan 3rd day and closed connected 176-5, losing 4 of those wickets successful nan evening session, including 1 successful nan day's last complete to Pennington.

Yorkshire started nan 4th time well, pinch top-scorer Matthew Revis and George Hill sharing a 54-run business to raise hopes of avoiding a 4th conclusion successful 7 matches. But they needed overmuch much and were later bowled retired for 299 wrong 121 overs, slipping to a 163-run defeat.

The part-time rotation of Freddie McCann made nan breakthrough by bowling Hill pinch nan first shot of a solitary complete soon earlier nan caller ball. Pennington past removed Revis for 45 conscionable aft luncheon and vanished pinch an awesome season's champion 5-106 from 31 overs.

Nottinghamshire claimed 19 points to Yorkshire's 3 and scope nan midway constituent successful nan four-day run good placed to declare a first Championship title since 2010.

Not since 2011 person they won astatine Headingley, a venue astatine which they person only ever won 5 Championship matches, including this.

Pennington claimed 3 of his wickets connected Monday successful easing batting conditions to support Yorkshire second-bottom successful nan table.

Revis and caller England Lions all-rounder Hill, who contributed 26, batted beautiful comfortably done nan first 85 minutes of a gloomy and chilly day.

Although nan erstwhile took a achy rustle connected nan correct thumb from nan seam of Brett Hutton, he played confidently done nan off-side disconnected beforehand ft and backmost connected nan measurement to a season's champion people successful his 4th appearance.

But each Notts had to do was enactment patient, and you felt occurrence would come. And it did, moreover if it initially came via nan astir unexpected route.

The off-spin of McCann was brought into nan onslaught to vessel nan 79th over, nan penultimate earlier nan caller shot was due.

He dragged his first shot down and Hill's eyes lit up. He went to pull, but nan transportation scooted done and uprooted mediate stump, leaving nan people astatine 230-6.

Seven balls into nan afternoon, Pennington forced Revis - playing backmost - to feather down to South African Kyle Verreynne pinch nan people connected 244.

The aforesaid operation ousted Yorkshire's stand-in skipper Dom Bess for 21 and past Ben Coad for five.

By that stage, astatine 277-9, nan result of nan crippled was each but certain.

With ray rainfall starting to fall, past brace Jack White and Jordan Thompson resisted for much than an hr - and almost 20 overs - to frighten that theory.

But Mohammad Abbas sewage White caught down by Verreynne, whose sixth drawback successful nan innings and ninth successful nan lucifer sealed nan win.

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Yorkshire caput coach Anthony McGrath:

"We bowled good without a reward first day, but aft that we conscionable couldn't wrestle immoderate inaugural successful nan game, we were ever behind.

"Even though we had opportunities, each clip we somewhat sewage connected top, we've conscionable not managed to return that further and past get immoderate power successful nan game. That has been a problem each season.

"We've sewage to look successful ourselves, not conscionable nan players, each nan coaches arsenic well. We've sewage to find immoderate answers because arsenic overmuch arsenic we talk and everything for illustration that, it's astir performances.

"Our members and supporters, group who travel america - and we've sewage awesome support - are not willing successful ifs and buts and whatever, they want to spot results."

Nottinghamshire's Dillon Pennington:

"We talk astir conscionable doing immoderate you request to do for nan squad to get nan win, and myself, Mo (Abbas) and Brett (Hutton), we each bowled a batch of overs there.

"It was a spot of a reliable commencement to nan twelvemonth for me, but I felt bully successful this game. I leaked a fewer runs, but my hit was good.

"We tried to put nan upwind retired of our minds and conscionable effort to shot successful nan correct areas arsenic agelong arsenic we could. The transportation sewage a spot better, truthful it was astir stacking and conscionable trusting that we'd get nan wickets successful nan end.

"We've done truthful good complete nan 7 weeks. The boys person put successful a hellhole of a displacement and spirits are existent precocious going into nan T20s now. It's each exciting, and we'll travel backmost caller for nan adjacent mates of Championship games pinch nan Kookaburra ball."