Cricket: Four-Wicket Mahmood Curbs Yorkshire Before Rudolph-Brophy Retort ; Championship: Division One Focus

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Lancashire's Sajid Mahmood took his chance to make an impression on visiting England selector Geoff Miller but honours ended roughly even as Yorkshire dug deep at Headingley yesterday.

Mahmood, something of a forgotten man in the Peter Moores era, took four for 61 leading the attack, but good counterattacking innings by Jacques Rudolph (66) and wicketkeeper Gerard Brophy (59) ensured the home side remained in contention on 306 for seven at stumps.

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Cricket: Four-Wicket Mahmood Curbs Yorkshire Before Rudolph-Brophy Retort ; Championship: Division One Focus

Mahmood, a former Test and World Cup player for his country, has apparently fallen off Moores' radar in both the long and short forms of the game but he offers pace and bounce that not all of England's current opt...

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