Sounds like Suthar is likely to be coming back later in the season!

In the end pleased we didn’t lose it but seems such a shame from the position we were in. Terrible pitch all game. Started green and seaming and uneven and then finished dead and spinning slowly.

Suspect it’s just that Davies is knackered after keeping.

May work to our advantage is we have a go after tea.

Early days but I like the way Malik is shaping up. Nice and busy and straight.

I think it would be a case of batting until tea and seeing where we are.

They have to start again tomorrow so we need to get rid of them both quickly.

Nearly at the new ball

Highveld wrote:

The coconut matting is absorbant, and wil stop the pitch "sweating" ubder the plastic sheeting.

Thanks I feared the opposite. That’s reassured me!

Why did the mat go under the covers?

I just fear how we will bat on this!

If we’d brought Webster on earlier they’d be all out. And it’s turning for Suthar as well.

Somerset member trying to tell me we will bat for two days but I don’t see it at all!

Pitch looks too green to me. But I’m in a WhatsApp group with a Somerset member who is absolutely adamant it always looks like this and there’s nothing wrong with it. They claim if it turns they will be docked points so have to produce pitches like this.

I mean they did win the toss and bat but there seems a lot of movement to me. OHD would have been useful on this!

Woakes has a hernia like condition and is only playing T20 and presumably Hundred.

Some questionable decisions. Us with the toss and Yorkshire by not enforcing the follow on but not for the first time this season we’ve shown a lot of character. Just need to sort out the batting and hope Suthar shines at Taunton! Probably give Thompson another chance?

We should have batted when we won the toss and the reason given is one of the worst I've ever heard but the pitch is still in good nick if we just knuckle down. Our approach just seems to have been wrong in absolutely everything from selection onwards. Now our batsmen appear to be giving their wickets away!

Loved my trip to Scarborough and had a great time.

I don’t think we were prepared. Wrong choice at toss, wrong lengths, wrong ends for bowlers.

They’ve bowled well and if we can recover then following on would undo the damage bowling first has done!

Malik hopeless all game. Barnard a solid pro!

Spoke to a few at lunch. The reason we bowled even though the pitch looks like a road is because of T20. We thought we needed to bowl to get used to the tempo of the championship again. I don’t really follow this theory as Yorkshire seemed able to adapt.

I think the main thing now is to score big and hopefully have a bowl at them on the last day!

Definitely a bat first pitch. Had a good look at the square at lunch. All the Yorkshire supporters saying the same!

We’ve not pitched it up which hasn’t helped!

A few kept low early on but it seems a slow pitch. Anything short is dispatched through square.

Not sure why we bowled.

Crowd a little disappointing. Don’t know how many fellow Bears here as we haven’t had much to cheer about!

Cheers thanks all! Fingers crossed for the weather!

Very much looking forward to Friday and Saturday in Scarborough.

Any recommendations for best fish and chip shop and evening entertainment?

In the 80s Somerset were the cricket hooligans with a lot of drinking and bad behaviour.

They were also a glamorous side by then with Botham, Garner and Richards

I thought behaviour had improved a lot more recently whenever I’ve been to Taunton.

As for round arm bowling it’s always been a thing!