Jonny Bairstow: England batter hits 97 for Yorkshire seconds in injury comeback

Bairstow past played successful a Test against South Africa successful August

Jonny Bairstow scored 97 arsenic helium made his instrumentality from wounded for Yorkshire successful a 2nd XI crippled against Nottinghamshire.

He was dropped connected 21 disconnected England team-mate Olly Stone and was retired erstwhile helium deed the speedy to screen successful the 56th over.

The 33-year-old is expected to play for Yorkshire's archetypal XI adjacent week arsenic helium attempts to regain his England place.

England play Ireland connected 1 June earlier the men's Ashes bid begins against Australia connected 16 June.

While it was not vintage Bairstow, it was an encouraging archetypal sound aft 8 months connected the sidelines.

Batting astatine four, helium was troubled by Stone aft lunch, offering a straightforward accidental to 2nd gaffe that was nevertheless spilled and playing and missing 3 much times successful the abstraction of 4 balls.

He nicked betwixt keeper and gaffe connected 55 and played the occasional mendacious changeable but different looked successful decent interaction against a modest, inexperienced attack, Stone aside.

Bairstow's archetypal boundary, a flick disconnected the pads implicit mid-wicket, came from his 18th shot and helium followed that with a propulsion for 4 a shot later.

An implicit earlier his dismissal the right-hander slog-swept Calvin Harrison for six implicit mid-wicket and clubbed the leg-spinner implicit the long-on obstruction 2 balls later.

Bairstow was successful good signifier earlier his injury, sustained erstwhile slipping connected a play course, having scored 1,061 Test runs successful 2022, including six centuries.

But his replacement Harry Brook has since secured his presumption with 4 hundreds successful six Tests astatine an mean of 80.90 during England's winter.

That means deposing existent first-choice wicketkeeper Ben Foakes whitethorn beryllium Bairstow's champion accidental of returning to the broadside and Yorkshire manager of cricket Darren Gough said Bairstow had indicated a tendency to support wicket erstwhile helium makes his first-team comeback.

It is expected helium volition support wicket astatine immoderate constituent during the four-day 2nd XI match, but besides tract elsewhere.

Yorkshire were 305-5 from 64 overs astatine tea.