Yorkshire v Hampshire (day 3): Hosts take control as Adam Lyth ends frustration
No sooner had he driven a ball from Hampshire pace bowler Gareth Berg through backward-point and out towards the West Stand than Yorkshire’s Adam Lyth softly punched the air as he realised that it was travelling to the boundary to raise his first County Championship hundred for over a year.
Then, as the reality of the milestone began to sink in, Lyth took an angry swipe at the pitch with his bat before shaking the hand of non-striker Jonny Tattersall.
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Hide AdBatsmen do not usually take an angry swipe at the pitch on reaching three-figures, so Lyth’s reaction was telling in the extreme.