THERE are two obstacles standing in the way of Yorkshire and a first win of the season - first, and most obviously, Derbyshire, their opponents, and secondly the weather, with heavy rain forecast for Sunday’s day three.
The situation prior to the projected deluge was this: Derbyshire were 190-3 in their first innings 260 runs adrift, after Yorkshire declared their first innings at 450-5 shortly after lunch on day two, immediately after claiming a fifth and final batting point. Weather forecasts, of course, are notoriously unreliable; so much so, the two easiest jobs in the world are surely 1) forecasting the weather and 2) writing horoscopes.
Derbyshire were straight up against it in reply, slumping to 23-3 in the face of fine bowling from Matty Fisher and Ben Coad. Fisher got the ball rolling by having Harry Came leg-before and David Lloyd caught at third slip by Fin Bean, who then clung on to a sharp chance in the same position off Coad to remove Luis Reece. At that stage, the more optimistic Yorkshire fan might even have wondered if their side could take the threat of rain out of the equation altogether.
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