The fact we left them 72 overs to chase it meant the draw was off the table – if it was 200, they might have taken the draw that would have guaranteed them second place and £145k more prize money. If I’d been able to start hooning it like we know I can we might have set them 200.

It was very cool he did that in his last knock as a Bear. OHD Dom Sibley’s 77 was a brilliant innings with wickets falling around him and Sam Hain, our top-scorer all season, hobbling around after a horrible hamstring tear. And with talk of promotion via a one-off playoff, it struck us all if we go down it could take four or five years. OHD We’d also been chatting about the Strauss report during rain breaks on the first two days, and the fact that, if it passed, relegation would mean two years down minimum. We’d stopped talking about last year’s title win earlier in the season … but there was definitely an element of that in there, too. Liam Norwell: There was total clarity and we were determined not to be relegated champions. Whatever target we set Hampshire – 120, 180, 200 – it simply had to be enough. The runs almost became secondary to needing two sessions to bowl them out. Oliver Hannon-Dalby: Weirdly, there was very little tension because our situation was so stark. Over a round of coffees in leafy south Birmingham, and with a scorecard to hand, the pair sat down with the Observer to relive the tense nature of a heist that instead saw Yorkshire fall through the trap door with Gloucestershire.Īli Martin: It’s the start of the day, you’re 62 for two, just 23 runs ahead, and there are three sessions left.

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