Good morning Tim Maitland! “Salutations Tanya, ”May your trip to Grace Road bring you joy. It brings back memories of a very young version of me wasting tape and the time of one David Gower esq. for the sheer delight of hearing him speak. “However my mind is dawdling over Headingley, another of my old haunts. Where if Yorkshire are going to have any against Nottinghamshire, it’s about time someone other than Adam Lyth stepped up, isn’t it? They’re just not getting the kind of match winning, or even innings winning performances with the bat. ”Lyth, who made 106 against Hampshire in early April and what should have been a victory defining 185 at Essex earlier this month, and Dom Bess, with 107 in the win over Worcestershire, are their only centurions. Lyth, with 682 runs to his name sits behind only Nottinghamshire skipper Haseeb Hameed in the Division One run scoring table. Next best? Dawid Malan’s 98 (also against Worcestershire) and the even-lesser spotted Joe Root’s 90 in his only appearance this year. ”But what strikes me as interesting, considering Young Jonny Bairstow’s role as captain and jilted lover (in the England sense), is how slowly they’re scoring when you’d expect a Bairstow side to be Bazballesque in their approach. With the exception of YJB’s 79 at a strike rate of 106 when he was pushing for the declaration at Chelmsford, and his contributions at Surrey (89 at 78 and 77 at 74) most of the knocks of any note this season have been closer to 50.00 than. ”Perhaps that’s an indication that most of the time they’ve been struggling to hold innings together rather than grabbing games by the throat?” I think you’re right. The Yorkshire young guns haven’t really pushed on so far this season – almost the opposite of Bazball’s hit yourself out of trouble mentality.