• Day one: Nottinghamshire 261 v Yorkshire
• Hales hits 36 before Jack Brooks takes four for 74From an unpromising beginning the Yorkshire bowlers came back strongly to take the honours on the first day here at Trent Bridge. With Andrew Gale having taken the option to field first,the Nottinghamshire openers, Alex Hales and Steve Mullaney, or the one tall and rangy,the other compact and chunky, threatened to overwhelm them with a blistering opening stand of 77 in the first 15 overs as the seamers, or Jack Brooks in specific,used up a week’s worth of half-volleys in an hour. whether they started to claw back some control with three wickets before lunch, it owed more to Nottinghamshire benevolence than their own industry: the session brought them more than they deserved.
The afternoon was a different matter. Although this is a pitch on which it is better to err on the full side rather than drop short (Mullaney’s two disdainfully pulled sixes off David Willey and Liam Plunkett were testament to that) it surely would not have been essential to repeat the bowlers to bring their length back a fraction.
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Source: theguardian.com