Day three superiority gives Yorkshire a chance at Taunton

Half-centuries from James Wharton and Joe Root kept Yorkshire in with a fighting chance on the third day of the Rothesay County Championship Division One match at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.

A resolute batting display saw the visitors advance their second innings score from an overnight 13 without loss to 365 for nine, Wharton top-scoring with an impressive 92, while Root contributed 64 and Jhye Richardson a priceless 48 not out batting at ten.

Yorkshire take a lead of 253 into the final day. But, with an increasingly benign pitch offering little to the bowlers, Somerset will still consider themselves favourites to record a third Championship victory in their first four games.