Yorkshire 297 and 179 for 2 (Bean 64) lead Derbyshire 247 (Madsen 93, Wagstaff 52, Thompson 3-48, Fisher 3-54) by 229 runs
While Thompson’s 3 for 48 from 20.1 overs ensured he finished with the pick of the home figures, starting with a wicket in the day’s opening over, Fisher was excellent during the afternoon. He put the skids under Derbyshire on a pitch lacking pace in a fiery five-over spell yielding two wickets.
He bowled both Matt Lamb and Anuj Dal, beating them for pace with deliveries which kept low. Lamb’s off stump went cartwheeling as the score fell to 193 for 6.
Winding back to the start of the day, which Derbyshire started on 47 for 1, Thompson had Brooke Guest caught behind in the opening over.
Wagstaff, 20-years-old, started day two on 32 and reached his fifty off 99 balls. This is only his second first-class fixture. The otherwise composed left-hander was then the second morning wicket to fall when ruffled by a Fisher short ball which he miscued to square-leg, leaving the score at 103 for 3.
Derbyshire then pressed ahead with a 70-run stand either side of lunch between Madsen and captain Leus du Plooy, who made 30.
Madsen had reached his fifty off 67 balls before lunch, including a six over long-on against Ben Coad – and he looked extremely fluent early in his landmark appearance for Derbyshire.
Madsen, who hit three successive fours in one Fisher over, has had an interesting history with Yorkshire, a county who were previously keen on his signature.
In 2013, he won the inaugural Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Elite Award in recognition for walking of his own accord in a Championship match between these two counties at Chesterfield that season. Steve Patterson’s appeal for caught behind was turned down, but Madsen walked. He went on to score 141 in the second innings of a defeat. Yorkshire’s interest in signing him was around the same time.
Last year, Madsen made his 400th all-format appearance for Derbyshire in a Vitality Blast game at Headingley. In this year’s same fixture, he narrowly missed out on posting a world record sixth successive T20 half-century.
With him and du Plooy settled after lunch, Derbyshire looked well set for a first-innings lead. However, the course of the fixture was about to change. Thompson, who thought he had du Plooy caught behind on 20, removed him caught at first slip on 30, leaving the score at 173 for 3 in the 51st over.
Then came Fisher’s aforementioned twin strikes before Matthew Revis bowled Alex Thomson. And when Madsen edged another seamer George Hill into the gully seven short of three figures, Derbyshire were 209 for 8 in the 68th over.
Zak Chappell and Sam Conners meatily struck some useful lower order runs – 20 and 15 respectively – before falling caught off Revis and Thompson respectively.
Bean and Lyth, who made 43, then further rubber-stamped Yorkshire’s excellent day with a dominant evening alliance. They looked in little trouble, though Lyth was caught at slip looking to attack offspinner Thomson, who then deflected a James Wharton drive on to the non-striker’s stumps to run Bean out.
Wharton and captain Shan Masood – 29 and 41 – then shared an unbroken half-century partnership through to close.
Yorkshire are on track for their second win of 2023. Their first was against Derbyshire at Chesterfield in June.
Source: ESPN Crickinfo