Date-stamped : 25 Apr97 - 06:18
Battarbee cuts dash on debut

By Ralph Dellor in The Parks

First day of three: Oxford Univ (21-2)  trail   Yorkshire  (335-2
dec) by 314 runs

RECORDS  do  not  divulge  whether  anyone  sporting  a  ponytail
has ever opened the bowling for Oxford University. If  not, Chris
Battarbee  has  broken  new   ground   and,   eccentric hairstyle
apart, made a very favourable impression on his debut.

With  his   32nd   ball   in   first-class   cricket    he    had
Yorkshire`s  England  A  opener Michael Vaughan expertly taken in
the gully and with his 34th had David Byas nervously awaiting the
umpire`s judgment on an lbw appeal.

Martyn Moxon must have suffered  even  greater  anxiety when  hit
on the pads by Gavin Wright three overs later.  Wright, himself a
Yorkshireman, did claim Moxon`s wicket with the  help of  another
gully catch.

It was not until after tea that the batsmen broke free, with Byas
and  Anthony McGrath adding 112 from  20  overs  as both moved on
to centuries. After  declaration,  the  University  were  left  a
difficult 40 minutes batting during which Darren  Gough and Chris
Silverwood gave them a torrid time - a little too hot  for  Roger
Hudson and Charlie Lightfoot.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)
================================>Day 2

Yorkshire give tough tutorial

By Ralph Dellor in The Parks

Second day of three: Yorks (335-2  dec  &   275-2)   lead  Oxford
Univ (114) by 496 runs

AS a university is an institution for further  education  it  was
appropriate that yesterday the students of Oxford  were forced to
digest a long tutorial in  the  art  of  first-class cricket.

Hustled out for 114 in less  than  38  overs  on  the  stroke  of
lunchtime by a vibrant Yorkshire attack, they were then forced to
endure  a  wearying  afternoon  chasing  leather  all  over   the
picturesque Parks.

Only two Oxford batsmen, Mark Wagh  and   Peter   Morgan,  played
innings  which  held  up the bowlers for long, though Alex Scrini
again showed that he is a battler in the best tradition of  gutsy
wicketkeeper/batsmen.

Once Darren Gough and Chris Silverwood had softened  up the  main
body  of batting, the spinners moved in to pick  at  the carcass.
Wagh`s dismissal, the fifth of the  innings,  was also the  500th
of wicketkeeper Richard Blakey`s Yorkshire career.

The follow-on was not enforced, and after  Craig  White had  seen
his  off-stump  pegged back via an inside  edge,  Michael Vaughan
and Bradley Parker  took  full  advantage  of   a   tired  attack
and  excellent   batting   surface   to   rattle   off   polished
centuries and leave their side with a surfeit of runs.



Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)

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