da bet sport： Alex Wharf celebrated career-best figures against his old countyYorkshire as Glamorgan kept themselves in the CricInfo Championship clash at Swansea
Richard Thomas of the South Wales Evening Post30-May-2001Alex Wharf celebrated career-best figures against his old countyYorkshire as Glamorgan kept themselves in the CricInfo Championship clash at Swansea.Bradford-born Wharf recorded figures of 5-63 as he helped to restrictthe Division One leaders to 280 all out.Wharf, 25, had helped to reduce Yorkshire to 3-2 inside five overs andalthough the Tykes recovered through Darren Lehmann and Craig White, hereturned to get amongst the tail.It will have given Wharf plenty of satisfaction, especially as he leftHeadingley under something of a cloud in 1997 after a handful of gamesfor the county.By lunch Yorkshire had very much regained control of the match at110-2 with Lehmann eyeing a century despite scares on 20 and 40 when hesurvived an lbw appeal and then a dropped catch by Matthew Maynard atsecond slip off Wharf.The turning point came five balls after the interval when Steve Watkin trapped Lehmann lbw for 75, ending a 107-run partnership with Craig White for the third wicket.Lehmann had been in the middle for two hours in an innings that included13 boundaries.Glamorgan’s patient bowlers gradually ate into the lower middle orderdespite two and a half hours in the middle from skipper David Byas whosupplied an invaluable 63.After tea Wharf claimed the wickets of Richard Blakey, Gavin Hamiltonand Chris Silverwood to complete a good afternoon’s work.Before the close Glamorgan openers Steve James and Jimmy Mahersuccessfully negotiated two maidens from Chris Silverwood and RyanSidebottom respectively.