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Lancashire 494 (Hameed 114, Clark 84*, Procter 79, Bresnan 3-80, Brooks 3-81) and 70 for 0 lead Yorkshire 360 (Lees 85, Gale 83, Jarvis 4-70, Kerrigan 3-91) by 204 runsScorecard At 9.45 on the third morning of this match the Yorkshire cricketer, Andrew Gale, strolled back to the away dressing room from the Old Trafford nets. His body cast a clear, sharp shadow as he walked across the outfield. With his batting gloves and helmet wedged neatly under his arm and the bat held rather like a lance in hand, Gale cut a faintly chivalric figure as he glanced across to the square where he has played on many occasions. Yorkshires skipper is an old warrior, though, and these lists hold many memories for him, not all of them congenial. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms…? Rather a lot, since you ask.This has been not only a tough season for Gale but also a slightly strange one for his county. And even though he made 83, his highest score of the season, and Yorkshire avoided the follow-on, neither of those trends were lobbed out of kilter on a Monday when the cricket was watched by a good-sized crowd including - ECB panjandrums, please note - a large number of schoolchildren.Gale wanted a hundred but fell 17 short and County Championships are not won by sides battling to concede deficits of less than 150. By the close, Tom Smith and Haseeb Hameed had extended Lancashires 134-run first-innings lead to 204, Hameed stroking quite lovely boundaries to the cover and midwicket boundaries. While Middlesex were thrashing Durham on Monday evening, Yorkshire will almost certainly be batting two sessions or so to save the Roses match on Tuesday. Beating Nottinghamshire at Scarborough next week is looking a necessity.Moreover, while Yorkshire are the only team with a chance of winning all three trophies, their club captain, who has played only four-day games, has struggled in his quest for big runs. Gale has netted for numberless hours and declared himself in decent nick. He has played second-team cricket on slow pitches like that at Derbyshires Belper Meadows in an effort to get the scores that would justify his view. Yet he began this 269th Roses match with 327 Championship runs in the bank at an average of 19.23.For much of the first session, it seemed as though Gale was going to find his grail in a place as strange as Trafford. Resuming on 136 for 2, he and Alex Lees were already well set on a wicket containing few obvious ogres and they had added another 47 runs in 75 minutes before Lees was leg before to Kyle Jarvis for a hard-worked 85 when playing across a ball that held its line.Gale was batting well. His style is unlikely to inspire sonnets but he has made over eight thousand runs, so who gives a damn? There had been a cheery clump to the boundary off Jarvis long-hop and a fine drive over mid-on off Simon Kerrigan. In the first hour of the morning he added 20 runs to his overnight 36 and he had faced a Lancashire attack emboldened by their first-innings total of 594. So emboldened, indeed that one or two home players had made observations to Gale which required the brief intercession of the umpires, Paul Baldwin and David Millns. After his infamous contretemps with Ashwell Prince, Yorkshires captain has almost certainly had enough of conversations with Lancashire players on the Old Trafford outfield.For most of the second hour of Mondays play, Gale was partnered by 24-year-old Melburnian Jake Lehmann, who was playing his first innings for the county. Rather than resembling his father, Darren, in any particular way, Lehmann sports a rather natty moustache vaguely reminiscent of Edwardian England. So perhaps it was not only the youngsters fine straight boundaries off Jarvis which encouraged the watching Gale. If you are engaged in a battle for Yorkshires pride, it probably doesnt harm if youre batting with a bloke who looks like FS Jackson.Notwithstanding such reminders of yet another golden age for White Rose cricket, Gale was out five minutes before lunch when he cut Tom Smith to gully where Simon Kerrigan delightedly took his first catch in that position for Lancashire. There was an annoyed wave of the bat from Gale and a resigned departure. He needs a century, the batsmans litmus test of achievement. Its one more than 99 but its the one run that everyone notices.Throughout the morning session Lancashire had been bowling well. Steven Crofts attack was no doubt encouraged by their sides dominance in a fixture they have not won since 2011 and they deserved their successes. In the afternoon more were to follow as Lehmann played on to the excellent Kyle Jarvis after making a quietly impressive 46 off 53 balls. Three balls earlier Rashid had been brilliantly caught by Hameed at short leg off Kerrigan, the ball being clipped crisply at head height where the 19-year-old clutched it in two hands before scampering back to the justifiably astonished bowler.Lehmanns dismissal left Yorkshire on 272 for 6, 73 short of the follow-on. It is doubtful, of course, whether Croft would have invited Gale to have another bat but it would have been an affront to White Rose honour had he even had the opportunity. The indignity was avoided thanks to a typically determined effort from Andy Hodd who made 43 and had taken his side to within four runs of their first objective when he was brilliantly caught by a diving Liam Livingstone, who sprinted 15 yards from slip before hurling himself forward to take the skied snare off KerriganEleven overs later Yorkshire were all out for 360 but the innings ended in perhaps unprecedented fashion when Ryan Sidebottom walked for a catch at the wicket off Kerrigan. For a few Yorkshire supporters, Lancastrians too, perhaps, it was as though Yorkshires last man had taken a page from a Shakespeare First Folio and made a paper aeroplane out of it. Most people, of course, call it honesty and it would be interesting to see what cricket might be like if the games often admirable ethics incorporated such behaviour. Marshal Yanda Jersey . After dropping their final six games of December, the Wild opened the new calendar year with four consecutive wins. 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Queensland believe NSW will field their best attacking line-up yet but are determined to blunt the threat of rookie Blues fullback James Tedesco.Maroons assistant Anthony Seibold said halfback Cooper Cronk wanted to exploit swirling winds and target Tedesco and winger Josh Mansour with his kicking game at Wednesdays State of Origin III at ANZ Stadium.Tedesco is a terrific club player but this is the next level up - he will have plenty of kicks in his direction, Seibold said.We want to test Tedesco out and Josh Mansour.We did a good job on (former fullback Matt) Moylan in the first two games because we were physical with our kick chase.Now we need to be physical with them.Seibold said the injection of Tedesco along with Moylan, Jack Bird and Mansour had made the game three NSW side their most dangerous of the series.They have transitioned some good young players, he said.We think it will be the toughest game defensively.Its their best attacking side. They will ask plenty of questions.Seibold said Queensland weree wary of NSW wanting to send retiring skipper Paul Gallen out a winner.ddddddddddddBut they were also determined to celebrate milestones of their own.Only four Queensland teams have won 3-0 and we have some milestones with GI (Greg Inglis) playing his 30th, (Gavin) Coopers first and (Corey) Parkers retirement, he said.There is plenty of motivation.Seibold said Queensland wanted to secure a rare whitewash to ensure NSW do not gain any momentum for next year.We dont want to give them anything tonight, he said.We want to win 3-0.There has been no let up at training. We dont want to give them a leg up.Veteran lock Parker was the focus of a special presentation at the Queensland team hotel on Tuesday night ahead of his 19th and final Origin.It was quite emotional, Seibold said.Hes been an outstanding professional, a very good leader.He will leave a lasting legacy. The guys will miss him. 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