County Championship: Yorkshire beat Nottinghamshire in final game of season

Image source, Shutterstock Image caption, On his 37th birthday, Jonny Bairstow hit the winning runs for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire
Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Trent Bridge (day two)
Nottinghamshire 251 & 85: White 5-23, Coad 4-27
Yorkshire 179: Stone 5-51 & 159-9: Luxton 53, Bairstow 38*; Patterson-White 4-38
Yorkshire (19 pts) beat Notts (4 pts) by one wicket
Yorkshire ended their County Championship season with a third consecutive victory after beating Nottinghamshire by one wicket on day three at Trent Bridge.
Needing just 158 to win with more than five sessions left in the match, they suffered a major wobble in which seven wickets fell for 61 runs.
But skipper Jonny Bairstow flat-batted Pakistan seamer Mohammad Ali for six over cover to clinch the spoils
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