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Billy Root outdoes big brother Joe but Adam Lyth spares Yorkshire blushes

Adam Lyth tucks off his pads Getty Images

Glamorgan 330 (van der Gugten 85*, Douthwaite 57, Carlson 55, Hogan 54, Coad 4-94) and 241 for 4 dec (B Root 110*, Cook 102*) drew with Yorkshire 193 (Lyth 52) and 223 for 4 (Lyth 115*, Brook 60)

The battle of the Roots fell decidedly to Billy as he put his more illustrious brother in the shade in their first Championship head-to-head by completing a century on the final day at Headingley. Glamorgan can take satisfaction, too, from a dominant performance that allowed them to set Yorkshire 379 in 76 overs, although the match was saved comfortably enough at 223 for 4.

Yorkshire's saving grace was Adam Lyth, whose carefree 115 not out banished fears of a disastrous first-game defeat against a Glamorgan side who are viewed as one of the underdogs in Group Three, but who thoroughly relished the chance to spread disquiet among the White Rose.

Once he had survived some testing early overs, Lyth's was an innings of impeccable timing - in more ways than one. It was his 25th first-class hundred and he is right to suggest that had he been more ruthless he would have made more. He marked Yorkshire's performance as 6/10 which probably allowed a mark for the disagreeable conditions which as the players left the field for the final time were seen in a barely credible thermometer reading of 3.5C.

Yorkshire 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st19A LythT Kohler-Cadmore
2nd13A LythTW Loten
3rd15A LythJE Root
4th131A LythHC Brook
5th45A LythJA Tattersall

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