Yorkshire’s women and men are in Vitality Blast action at Headingley today, the women facing Northamptonshire and the men tackling Derbyshire. Follow our blog for live updates.
Derbyshire have sealed it thanks to Caleb Jewell and Wayne Madsen, who have posted 41 and 51 respectively.
Yorkshire’s eighth defeat in 12 in the North Group means they are out of quarter-final contention.
Madsen finished the match, and reached his fifty off 28 balls, with a six over long-on off Jafer Chohan.
The Falcons need 40 more, with Caleb Jewell 36 and Wayne Madsen 12. The latter has just been hit in the helmet by a Jordan Thompson bouncer.
Harry Came caught Abdullah Shafique bowled Dan Moriarty, 3.
Caught at deep mid-wicket pulling. Derbyshire chasing 152.
Aneurin Donald caught James Wharton bowled Dan Moriarty, 54.
Sliced to backward point trying to hit down the ground.
Yorkshire need two or three more wickets very quickly. Derbyshire archaising 152.
Aneurin Donald reaches his fifty off 24 balls, and Derbyshire are flying at 70-0 in the sixth over.
Aneurin Donald is hurting Yorkshire again. He has 27 off 15 balls in pursuit of 152.
He hit 85 off 30 balls at Chesterfield last week.
Derbyshire are 8-o in the first over, bowled by Dan Moriarty.
Anuerin Donald has hit two boundaries.
Decent effort for Yorkshire to recover from 17-4 to post a total which could still threaten in this game.
Ben Aitchison stood out with 5-29, while Dom Bess posted a top-score of 53.
Jordan Thompson caught behind Aneurin Donald bowled Ben Aitchison, 17.
Thompson falls in the search for late runs.
Dom Bess caught Pat Brown bowled Ben Aitchison, 53.
Caught at deep mid-wicket as Aitchison strikes for the second time in three balls.
Dom Bess has reached an impressive 36-ball fifty to help Yorkshire reach 131-6 from 18 overs.
Bess is on a career best 53 not out now.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com.
Mohammad Ghazanfar has just completed the joint second most economical four-over spell in Blast history.
Yorkshire 124-6 in the 18th over. Bess has 47 and Thompson 17.
Will Sutherland caught Ross Whiteley bowled Zak Chappell, 18.
Miscued out to deep mid-wicket.
Jordan Thompson in now, alongside Bess, who has 40.
Yorkshire are 73-5 after 13 overs.
Dom Bess has 25 and Will Sutherland 9.
You would think the limit of Yorkshire’s ambitions from here is 140 or 150.
It won’t be ideal, but it will certainly give a struggling Derbyshire side something to think about.
Abdullah Shafique caught Harry Came bowled Zak Chappell, 26.
Miscued pull to mid-on.
Will Sutherland in to join Dom Bess at the crease. He has 14.
Abdullah Shafique and Dom Bess are the men charged with turning this around, and they’ve taken the score to 41-4 after eight.
Shafique has 19 and Bess 10.
Yorkshire can take solace from the fact Derbyshire reduced Worcestershire to 10-4 on Thursday and lost.
James Wharton caught Samit Patel bowled Mohammad Ghazanfar, 0.
Caught at short cover, and Yorkshire have a mountain to climb.
Dawid Malan caught Wayne Madsen bowled Ben Aitchison, 4.
Miscued a clip high to short fine-leg.
James Wharton in now.
Will Luxton caught Caleb Jewell bowled Ben Aitchison, 4.
Caught at short third.
Abdullah Shafique in now alongside Malan.
Jonny Bairstow bowled Mohammad Ghazanfar, 0.
Bairstow is tied up in the first over and is bowled playing back by the Afghanistan off-spinner.
Will Luxton in now.
Yorkshire will open with Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow once again.
Yorkshire: Jonny Bairstow w, Dawid Malan c, Will Luxton, Abdullah Shafique, James Wharton, Will Sutherland, Jordan Thompson, Dom Bess, Jafer Chohan, Matt Milnes, Dan Moriarty.
Yorkshire unchanged from Friday night.
Yorkshire have won this one by 53 runs, with Northamptonshire finishing on 114-4.
Georgie Boyce with 55 and Ria Fackrell with two wickets standing out.
Excellent.
Northamptonshire are 109-4 chasing 168.
Claudie Cooper will bowl the final over as we dot the i’s and cross the t’s on a sixth straight win.
Gemma Marriott caught Erin Thomas bowled Ria Fackrell, 41.
Drilled down to long-off, where Thomas takes the catch.
Ariana Dowse caught Holly Garton bowled Ria Fackrell, 17.
Pulled to wide mid-on. Northamptonshire are chasing 168 and are a long way short.
We’ve just finished a lengthy delay, with Gemma Marriott struggling. Not sure what the issue was, maybe just exhaustion in the heat. But she continues. Northamptonshire are 66-2 in the 13th over. Marriott has 30.
Mabel Reid run out, 5.
Swept to short fine-leg, where Olivia Thomas picks up and throws to bowler Ria Fackrell. She does the rest.
Northamptonshire are chasing 168.
Amelia Kemp caught Ami Campbell bowled Claudie Cooper, 13.
Sliced to point, and off-spinner Cooper strikes in her first over as Northamptonshire chase 168.
Tidy start by Beth Langston and Rachel Slater.
Beth Langston has taken the new ball.
Gemma Marriott and Amelia Kemp are opening for the Steelbacks.
Georgie Boyce’s 55 stood out, with Rebecca Duckworth 32.
Fourteen runs came from the last over as Maddie Ward and Beth Langston hit three boundaries.
Ami Campbell bowled Ella Phillips, 11.
Bowled trying to hoist the off-spinner over mid-wicket.
Georgie Boyce caught Mabel Reid bowled Emily Carpenter, 55.
Miscued to mid-off, ending a fine knock.
Maddie Ward in alongside Ami Campbell, who has 1.
Rebecca Duckworth bowled Lenny Simms, 32.
The Italian international leg-spinner strikes to break an 85-run stand between Duckworth and Georgie Boyce, who remains on 54.
Ami Campbell in now.
Georgie Boyce has reached her first fifty for Yorkshire, off 45 balls with 7x4s.
Yorkshire 131-1 in the 16th over. Excellent.
Rebecca Duckworth has 30, and these two have shared 80.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com.
Wicketkeeper Poppy Smart has gone off the field injured. We’re not 100 percent sure what the issue is.
Yorkshire, meanwhile, are 100-1 in the 14th over.
Georgie Boyce has 44 and Rebecca Duckworth 20.
Yorkshire are on course for a commanding total here.
Georgie Boyce 42 and Rebecca Duckworth 18.
We’ve reached the halfway mark in the White Rose innings.
Georgie Boyce has 38 and Rebecca Duckworth 10.
Decent platform to work from.
Erin Thomas caught Gemma Marriott bowled Mabel Reid, 28.
Skied to mid-on, and Thomas’s bright start comes to an end. Rebecca Duckworth is in now alongside George Boyce, who has 21.
Erin Thomas has 23 and Georgie Boyce 15.
The pair have shared five boundaries so far.
Both Erin Thomas and Georgie Boyce have hit boundaries in the opening stages amidst a bright Yorkshire start.
Handy start for Yorkshire, with Erin Thomas picking up the only boundary so far.
Georgie Boyce and Erin Thomas opening the batting for Yorkshire.
Yorkshire: Georgie Boyce, Erin Thomas, Rebecca Duckworth, Ami Campbell, Maddie Ward c&w, Beth Langston, Ria Fackrell, Olivia Thomas, Rachel Slater, Claudie Cooper, Holly Garton.
Yorkshire have picked four spinners.
Yorkshire Men v Derbyshire Falcons – Vitality Blast Preview
Yorkshire Women v Northamptonshire Steelbacks – Vitality Blast Preview
From Headingley, where it’s another scorcher of a day.
It’s double header day in the Vitality Blast.
Kicking us off are Yorkshire’s women.
In their Tier 2 competition, they face Northamptonshire Steelbacks from 11am. Already qualified for Finals Day on July 26 with three games to play, it’s about fine-tuning for the White Rose. They have won five from five so far.
Yorkshire’s men are bidding for back-to-back wins in the Blast after a superb win over Lancashire Lightning at Emirates Old Trafford on Friday night. They are also aiming for some revenge after losing to Derbyshire Falcons at Chesterfield last Sunday. That game gets going at 3pm.
Yorkshire could win and be knocked out today, though that scenario is unlikely in the sense that the top four teams in the North, who all sit on 28 points, play each other today.
Lancashire Lightning host Durham at Emirates Old Trafford, while the Bears host Northamptonshire Steelbacks at Wantage Road. The only way in which Yorkshire could win and be knocked out would be for the other two games to finish tied, taking them all to 30 points. That’s a mark Yorkshire can’t reach.
You can read our previews for both games via the posts above.
We will be live-streaming both games.
Enjoy the day.
Yorkshire’s Vitality Blast quarter-final hopes are over. The White Rose county suffered a heavy home defeat to Derbyshire Falcons, who completed a second successive Sunday win against them. This time, they chased 152 to win by eight wickets inside 17 overs.
On-loan opener Georgie Boyce posted her maiden fifty for Yorkshire – 55 off 50 balls – as the county comfortably beat Northamptonshire Steelbacks at Headingley by 53 runs to claim their sixth successive victory in the Vitality Blast.
Jonny Bairstow blasted Lancashire all over Emirates Old Trafford last night but was quick to hail the talent of the man he batted with for longest across the Pennines, Will Luxton.
Live: Sunday Blast double header day – Yorkshire County Cricket Club
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