Players from the county dominated the Test build-up and first day against India but a costly England run out and dropped bear were telling
It was Yorkshire Day on Wednesday, a rare opportunity for those of us unlucky enough to be born in the other 47 counties to hear Yorkshire folk talk about where they are from and how proud they are about it. It was not immediately clear how this made it any different from the other 364 days in the year but at Edgbaston the day had a strong Yorkshire flavour to it, as conspicuous as the Yorkshire brass band who parp away during the tea-break. There were three Yorkshiremen in the England team – Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Adil Rashid– and between them they dominated the build-up to the series and defined the first day’s play.
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Written by Andy Bull at Edgbaston
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/01/yorkshire-day-root-bairstow-england-india-first-test under the title “Yorkshire’s special day – out of many – turns out to be a mixed occasion | Andy Bull”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
