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[ad_1] Joe Root returns to the pavilion after a first-baller © Getty Images Yorkshire 50 (Cook 5-28, Siddle 4-7) and 161 for 2 (Bairstow 50, Brook 57*) lead Essex 142 (Bresnan 3-26, Coad 3-27, Brooks 3-63, Lawrence 48, Harmer 36) by 69 runs Scorecard There's a scene in Where Eagles Dare in which Richard Burton with solid support from Clint Eastwood reveals the identity of the Nazi double agent contained within a notebook. The notebook, perplexingly, is empty. The agent is both revealed within its covers and yet simultaneously not there. Shroedinger's double-agent if you will. Burton delivers every line with mesmeric and gravelly perfection, but after watching that film at least a dozen times, I defy anyone to make sense of what the hell is going on. For Burton and Eastwood read Sam Cook and Peter Siddle . Given the opportunity to bowl first on a brownish pitch ...

[ad_1] Hampshire 351 for 7 dec (Adams 87, Siddle 3-62) drew with Essex 300 for 6 ( Cook 84, Bopara 84*) Scorecard Alastair Cook began his summer with a composed half-century to allay worries over his form but missed out on threef igures as Essex drew with Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl. Opening batsman Cook appeared in complete comfort against Hampshire's bowling attack, which boasts international quality in Kyle Abbott, Fidel Edwards and Brad Wheal, during his score of 84. Context had to be provided, however, by the dead nature of a match that was ruined by rain and bad light and never went beyond the first innings. Cook, who averages 77 in the Specsavers County Championship since the beginning of the 2016 season, has had his place in the England Test side questioned having only passed fifty once in seven matches in Australia and New Zealand. But the 33-year-old batted himself into form with a typically stylish innings - reaching his half-century in 80-balls - before Chris Wood di...