Chris Silverwood recorded figures of 5-20 to put Yorkshire in a dominant
position after the second day of their CricInfo Championship match against Glamorgan at Swansea
Richard Thomas of the South Wales Evening Post31-May-2001Chris Silverwood recorded figures of 5-20 to put Yorkshire in a dominant
position after the second day of their CricInfo Championship match against Glamorgan at Swansea.Silverwood’s impressive effort – his third five-wicket haul of the
summer – was largely responsible for bowling Glamorgan out for 104,
replying to Yorkshire’s first innings of 280 all out.But strangely Yorkshire skipper David Byas failed to enforce the
follow-on, preferring instead to build on his side’s 176-run first
innings lead.But the plan seemed to have backfired a little when Yorkshire found
themselves 7-2 and then 53-4. By tea they had recovered to 87-4, a lead
of 263.By the close that lead had been increased to 378 thanks mainly to a
120-run partnership for the fifth wicket in 30 overs between Byas, who
registered his second half-century of the match, and Gary Fellows.The damage to the Glamorgan first innings was done when they found
themselves 4-3 inside three overs this morning thanks to Silverwood.
James got a fine edge to the wicket-keeper while Powell and Maynard edged
to third and second slip respectively as Silverwood found plenty of life
in the Swansea pitch.Jimmy Maher did his best to launch a recovery along with Adrian Dale as
the pair added 56 in 18 overs.But then Dale and Maher perished in consecutive Gavin Hamilton overs as
Glamorgan slumped to 61-5. There was more trouble just before lunch when
Adrian Shaw was caught at short leg off James Middlebrook. And after
lunch Glamorgan collapsed from 86-6 to 104 all out in the space of 4.1
overs.
