Yorkshire dominate Northants to seal promotion

Vitality County Championship Division Two, Headingley (day three)

Northamptonshire 147: Bartlett 64*; Coad 4-51

Yorkshire 371-2: Wharton 162*, Lyth 147

Yorkshire (6 pts) lead Northants (0 pts) by 224 runs

Match scorecard

Yorkshire sealed promotion backmost to Division One of nan County Championship aft dominating time 3 against Northamptonshire.

Promotion rivals Middlesex were bowled retired for 271 by Sussex, which near Yorkshire needing 350 successful their first innings to unafraid 2nd spot successful nan table.

Adam Lyth (147) and James Wharton (162 not out) deed hundreds of years arsenic Yorkshire sewage nan 3 batting prize points they required and reached nan adjacent connected 371-2.

Yorkshire were relegated to Division Two by 1 constituent successful 2022, and past docked 48 points past play for their handling of nan Azeem Rafiq racism scandal.

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