THE problem with playing County Championship cricket in early April was hardly concealed by the fact that no play was possible in four of the nine matches on the opening day of the season.
Headingley managed to avoid the fate suffered by Chester-le-Street, Canterbury, Manchester and Derby, squeezing in 46 overs after play finally commenced at 3.40pm, but when you marginalise the four-day competition in favour of The Hundred, then such an outcome is not unexpected.
Mike, who left Yorkshire in November to return to Leicestershire, scored only 143 runs in 16 innings for the White Rose, with a best of 30 not out against Leicestershire in a T20 at Grace Road last June. Here he plundered 90, sharing with Scriven a stand of 119 in 26.4 overs, beating Leicestershire’s previous best ninth-wicket effort against Yorkshire of 100 between Stewie Dempster and Haydon Smith at Hull in 1939.
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