Earlier than the beginning, Yorkshire confirmed that Joe Root will play three Championship matches and fellow England batter Harry Brook two video games as their preparations for the Take a look at summer season.
Glamorgan gave debuts to ex-Somerset batter Sean Dickson and New South Wales paceman Ryan Hadley, whereas Yorkshire’s new faces are Western Australia batter Sam Whiteman, born in Doncaster, and Dutch all-rounder Van Beek. Australian paceman Jhye Richardson was not pressed into early service.
Intermittent rain, mixed with a cold wind, meant that play didn’t start in gray, windy and inhospitable climate till 16:15 BST.
Asa Tribe and Eddie Byrom, a uncommon bespectacled pair of batters, fashioned a brand new opening partnership for Glamorgan and Byrom hit his first ball again within the staff to the square-leg boundary.
However Ben Coad beat him a number of occasions earlier than forcing him to edge to slide the place Finlay Bean clung on properly.
Within the subsequent over, England contender Tribe feathered White via to Bairstow for 11, and the identical mixture accounted for Dickson with out scoring as Bairstow took a superb seize in entrance of slip.
The chaos continued as new captain Kiran Carlson flicked White to leg slip the place Dom Bess clung on to take a catch above his head.
Regardless of some tentative photographs early on, Ingram and England Lions all-rounder Kellaway settled in to cease the slide towards the change seamers, with Ingram slapping Van Beek over level for the primary Glamorgan six of the season.
The half-century partnership marked the primary stage in Glamorgan’s restoration earlier than Bairstow’s early exit for remedy, with Bean taking the keeper’s gloves.
Glamorgan survived a second blast from White and a token over of spin from Bess to achieve the shut with some batting assets intact, though Yorkshire shall be extra content material with their work.
