Ducks for Root and Cook, 22 wickets fall - just part of a bizarre Chelmsford day | Cricket
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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 ...