By Gary Watton
May 2 2013
Below can be found the good, the bad, and the ugly of Yorkshire's ill-fated County Championship campaign of 2011. Brace yourselves!
2011: 8th (relegated); (County champions: Lancashire)
Worcestershire v Yorkshire; 8-11 April; at Worcester
Worcestershire first innings: 286 [Mason 63; Rashid 6-77]
Yorkshire first innings: 368 [Brophy 177*, Sidebottom 61; Mason 3-72, Wright 3-79]
Worcestershire second innings: 137 [Kervezee 52; Rashid 5-37, Patterson 3-43]
Yorkshire second innings: 56 for 1
This win was a personal triumph for Adil Rashid who weighed in with eleven wickets at a cost of only 114 runs.
YORKSHIRE WON BY NINE WICKETS; Worcestershire 4 points; YORKSHIRE 22 points
Yorkshire v Durham; 14-17 April; at Headingley
Durham first innings: 327 [Di Venuto 74, Richardson 67, Plunkett 66*; Sidebottom 4-72, Pyrah 3-70]
Yorkshire first innings: 149 [Onions 5-53, Thorp 3-33]
Durham second innings: 311 for 6 declared [Benkenstein 150, Richardson 73*]
Yorkshire second innings: 343 [Pyrah 87, Bairstow 81; Borthwick 3-49, Plunkett 3-75]
Yorkshire made a decent fist at the required total of 490, but the damage had been done in a woeful first innings.
DURHAM WON BY 146 RUNS; Durham 22 points; YORKSHIRE 3 points
Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire; 20-23 April; at Headingley
Nottinghamshire first innings: 143 [Hales 85; Pyrah 5-58, Sidebottom 4-30]
Yorkshire first innings: 336 [Gale 145*, Lyth 64; Fletcher 4-97]
Nottinghamshire second innings: 337 [Read 86, Hales 83, Mullaney 83; Sidebottom 4-67, Rashid 3-52, Pyrah 3-73]
Yorkshire second innings: 86 [Bairstow 50*; Franks 3-24, Fletcher 3-27, Shreck 3-29]
Poor Jonny Bairstow was left waiting at the altar as the hosts spectacularly failed to chase a mere 145 runs.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE WON BY 58 RUNS; YORKSHIRE 6 points; Nottinghamshire 19 points
Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire; 4-7 May; at Nottingham
Yorkshire first innings: 534 for 9 declared [Bairstow 205, Root 95, Lyth 57, Sayers 50; Franks 4-135]
Nottinghamshire first innings: 428 [Phillips 71*, Edwards 64, Hales 59, Adams 54; Rashid 3-44, Shahzad 3-99, Pyrah 3-120]
Yorkshire second innings: 113 for 2 declared [Lyth 52]
Nottinghamshire second innings: 31 for 0
Young Alex Hales, who needed stitches, still managed to chalk up his third fifty against Yorkshire in the last month.
MATCH DRAWN; Nottinghamshire 9 points; YORKSHIRE 10 points
Yorkshire v Hampshire; 11-14 May; at Headingley
Yorkshire first innings: 355 [Bresnan 87, Bairstow 83; Cork 5-75]
Hampshire first innings: 232 [Myburgh 64; Shahzad 5-65, Sidebottom 3-45]
Yorkshire second innings: 165 for 8 declared [Kabir Ali 4-43, Cork 3-51]
Hampshire second innings: 153 for 8 [Ervine 55, Bresnan 3-18]
Yorkshire narrowly failed to convert their superiority into a win, a failing that would haunt them at the end of the summer.
MATCH DRAWN; YORKSHIRE 9 points; Hampshire 6 points
Lancashire v Yorkshire; 18-21 May; at Liverpool
Yorkshire first innings: 141 [Sayers 53; Maharoof 4-35, Keedy 4-44]
Lancashire first innings: 329 [Horton 93, Chilton 77; Patterson 4-51]
Yorkshire second innings: 308 [Sayers 75, Gale 60, Ballance 57, Rashid 52; Keedy 6-133]
Lancashire second innings: 121 for 4 [Rashid 3-34]
The spinner Gary Keedy helped himself to ten wickets as the red rose comfortably triumphed in this neighbourly dispute.
LANCASHIRE WON BY SIX WICKETS; Lancashire 22 points; YORKSHIRE 2 points
Somerset v Yorkshire; 24-27 May; at Taunton
Yorkshire first innings: 358 [Bairstow 136, Ballance 61; Kirby 3-54, Hussain 3-87, Willoughby 3-90]
Somerset first innings: 452 [Trescothick 189, Suppiah 95, Hildreth 87; Rashid 4-100, Sidebottom 3-66]
Yorkshire second innings: 321 [Bairstow 80, Root 67, Rashid 51*, Gale 50]
Somerset second innings: 228 for 0 [Trescothick 151*, Suppiah 67*]
The home team's captain Marcus Trescothick put Yorkshire to the sword with 340 runs in this decisive victory.
SOMERSET WON BY TEN WICKETS; Somerset 24 points; YORKSHIRE 6 points
Sussex v Yorkshire; 29 May-1 June; at Hove
Sussex first innings: 548 for 4 declared [Goodwin 274*, Wells 174]
Yorkshire first innings: 273 [Root 70, Patterson 53; Parnell 3-60]
Yorkshire second innings: 314 for 8 [Bairstow 76, Ballance 73*; Panesar 5-89]
Gary Ballance faced 207 deliveries for his defiant 73 as the Tykes narrowly escaped from the south coast with a draw.
MATCH DRAWN; Sussex 10 points; YORKSHIRE 5 points
Durham v Yorkshire; 18-21 June; at Chester-le-Street
Yorkshire first innings: 185 [Harmison 3-27, Onions 3-75]
Durham first innings: 408 for 8 declared [Collingwood 108, Mustard 70, Borthwick 67*, Muchall 55; Patterson 3-82]
Yorkshire second innings: 280 for 4 declared [Gale 101*, Lyth 69, Ballance 53*]
No play was possible on the first day. Anthony McGrath had a match to forget, with three runs from two innings.
MATCH DRAWN; Durham 11 points; YORKSHIRE 5 points
Yorkshire v Worcestershire; 11-14 July; at Scarborough
Worcestershire first innings: 168 [Bresnan 4-64]
Yorkshire first innings: 367 [Gale 72; Richardson 3-66]
Worcestershire second innings: 332 [Andrew 57; Pyrah 4-91]
Yorkshire second innings: 135 for 4 [Root 52*]
No batsman made a score over 75 in this tussle. Yorkshire's decision to bowl first was entirely vindicated.
YORKSHIRE WON BY SIX WICKETS; YORKSHIRE 21 points; Worcestershire 3 points
Yorkshire v Lancashire; 20-23 July; at Headingley
Lancashire first innings: 328 [Croft 54, Smith 51; Sidebottom 4-68, Shahzad 3-61]
Yorkshire first innings: 239 [Pyrah 117, Sidebottom 52; Hogg 5-62]
Lancashire second innings: 194 [Hogg 52, Mahmood 50; Bresnan 4-50]
Yorkshire second innings: 260 [Chapple 5-71]
Yorkshire recovered from 45-8 in the first innings while Lancashire was reeling at 87-8 in reply. This was a crucial defeat.
LANCASHIRE WON BY 23 RUNS; YORKSHIRE 4 points; Lancashire 22 points
Hampshire v Yorkshire; 2-5 August; at Southampton
Yorkshire first innings: 532 [McGrath 115, Rudolph 99, Ballance 76, Gale 54, Brophy 53; Imran Tahir 6-132]
Hampshire first innings: 599 for 3 declared [Carberry 300*, McKenzie 237]
Yorkshire second innings: 40 for 0
Only Brophy and Gale did not bowl in Hampshire's innings, during which Rashid and Wainwright conceded 296 runs.
MATCH DRAWN; Hampshire 9 points; YORKSHIRE 6 points
Yorkshire v Sussex; 17-20 August; at Scarborough
Sussex first innings: 398 [Yardy 130, Brown 108; Sidebottom 5-53, Pyrah 3-64]
Yorkshire first innings: 388 [Root 160, Ballance 87; Khan 4-70, Parnell 3-86]
Sussex second innings: 333 for 6 declared [Yardy 122, Anyon 53; Rashid 4-121]
Yorkshire second innings: 312 for 6 [Rudolph 120, Sayers 84]
Yorkshire fell just short of the required total, batting for only 54 overs, after Michael Yardy had recorded two centuries.
MATCH DRAWN; YORKSHIRE 9 points; Sussex 9 points
Yorkshire v Warwickshire; 23-26 August; at Headingley
Yorkshire first innings: 297 [Ballance 57; Barker 4-73, Metters 3-31]
Warwickshire first innings: 482 [Chanderpaul 193, Barker 85, Ambrose 66; Root 3-33, Wainwright 3-111]
Yorkshire second innings: 127 [Wright 5-31, Barker 4-56]
Barker took eight wickets and McGrath could only hit eight runs in two innings as this 'contest' finished a day early.
WARWICKSHIRE WON BY AN INNINGS AND 58 RUNS; YORKSHIRE 4 points; Warwickshire 23 points
Warwickshire v Yorkshire; 31 August - 3 September; at Birmingham
Yorkshire first innings: 281 [Sayers 84, Lyth 74; Clarke 4-55]
Warwickshire first innings: 318 [Chanderpaul 110, Ambrose 69, Westwood 55; Sidebottom 5-43]
Yorkshire second innings: 385 for 8 declared [Ballance 111, Rashid 82, McGrath 57; Wright 4-102]
Warwickshire second innings: 214 for 3 [Troughton 62*, Chanderpaul 56*]
Warwickshire were chasing 349 to win when the match was abandoned due to bad light, with almost 21 overs left.
MATCH DRAWN; Warwickshire 9 points; YORKSHIRE 8 points
Yorkshire v Somerset; 7-10 September; at Headingley
Somerset first innings: 265 [Barrow 69, Buttler 52; Sidebottom 4-61]
Yorkshire first innings: 195 [Lyth 52; Thomas 5-66, Kirby 3-65]
Somerset second innings: 132 [Sidebottom 7-37]
Yorkshire second innings: 205 for 4 [Bairstow 53*]
Ryan Sidebottom's bowling heroics, with match figures of 11-97 were in vain because Yorkshire were still relegated.
YORKSHIRE WON BY SIX WICKETS; YORKSHIRE 19 points; Somerset 5 points