{"id":632218,"date":"2026-06-11T01:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632218\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:31:15","slug":"jonnys-half-term-blast-report-yorkshire-county-cricket-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632218\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny’s half-term Blast report – Yorkshire County Cricket Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Jonny Bairstow is happy with where Yorkshire sit in the Vitality Blast, their four wins so far including a thumping success over Lancashire Lightning at Headingley on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Jonny Bairstow spoke after the Vitality Blast defeat at Leicestershire on Sunday afternoon, he was clearly frustrated with the manner of it, Yorkshire slipping from 100-3 to 135 all out in their pursuit of a 148-target. But the White Rose skipper struck the balance between disappointment and encouragement.<\/p>\n

The White Rose should have won at Grace Road, no doubt. It was a game they threw away. However, things like that do happen in T20 cricket. After all, it\u2019s such a fickle format.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can say, \u2018It\u2019s T20 cricket\u2019. But we should be chasing that down,\u201d said Bairstow. \u201cWe needed 100 off 14 overs with eight wickets left. From my point of view, that\u2019s what we pride ourselves on. We should be winning games of cricket like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bigger picture, though, is that it\u2019s been an impressive start to this season\u2019s Blast for Yorkshire, who sit top of the North Group with four wins from six. They have claimed victories over Nottinghamshire and Durham away and Derbyshire and Lancashire at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bairstow himself has stood out with the bat. He is, at present, the third leading run-scorer in the competition with 250 from six innings, including notable scores of 83 not out, 43, 73 and 39.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the ball, Pakistani overseas seamer Hassan Ali had led the way with 11 wickets. He\u2019s in the top six leading wicket-takers in the Blast having returned hauls such as 2-11, 3-29 and 4-18. Of course, he also helped win the game against Derbyshire at Headingley last month with a late 31 not out.<\/p>\n

We will concentrate on Hassan a touch more in a moment, but there have been others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Picture by John Mallett\/Leicestershire Cricket. Two fifties for James Wharton so far in the Blast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

James Wharton has scored two fifties, Adam Lyth a 97, Jafer Chohan has taken 10 wickets and Moeen Ali eight added to a half-century.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re happy with the way that we\u2019re playing,\u201d said Bairstow, whose side now turn their attentions to a fortnight of Rothesay County Championship cricket, starting with Warwickshire at Scarborough from Friday. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe leave this segment of the competition with four wins from six.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can turn up and do the same after these two Championship games, we should be through.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt that after years of underachievement in the Vitality Blast, with only three Finals Day appearances and no trophy, this Yorkshire side has a different look and feel about it.<\/p>\n

Bairstow continued: \u201cThere\u2019s been a calmness about everything, hasn\u2019t there. That\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that if you\u2019re able to just bring that calmness with the experience that you\u2019ve got in \u2013 whether that\u2019s with Mo, AJ, Hassan, and obviously all the international quality players that you bring in \u2013 it lifts everyone else.<\/p>\n

\"Moeen<\/p>\n

Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Moeen Ali has been a popular addition on and off the field at Headingley.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOther guys are able to take little snippets of that, of which we probably haven\u2019t had that for a little period of time.<\/p>\n

On the return of Championship cricket, the skipper said: \u201cWe look forward to this week up at Scarborough. We know it\u2019s going to be an amazing week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarwickshire gave us a hiding at their spot, so there\u2019s plenty on the line with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve come in off the back of some momentum and some good performances in the T20s. Hopefully the boys can kick on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going in the right direction is what I would say. To beat Surrey at home in the Championship and then coming into this (Blast).\u201d<\/p>\n

And, on Hassan\u2019s presence and his form, Bairstow added: \u201cHe\u2019s just high-class.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were lucky to be able to get him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Hassan<\/p>\n

Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Hassan Ali has impressed with ball and bat so far in a Yorkshire shirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving played against him quite a few times, you know how good he is. But, when you put him in different scenarios and situations, you\u2019re able to really see the class come through and his standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s just the deception of his slower balls and just how he formulates and goes about his over.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re always guessing as to what he\u2019s going to bowl because he\u2019s got three or four different balls. That\u2019s not even including a bumper, which is slippery enough<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been great to have him on board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hassan is available for both of Yorkshire\u2019s next two Championship matches, with a return to Grace Road to face Leicestershire following the Bears\u2019 clash.<\/p>\n

The in-form Pakistani international spoke about his first few weeks in a Yorkshire shirt after Friday\u2019s Roses win over Lancashire.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWhat a night! It was an amazing game, a great win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Experienced Australian seamer AJ Tye has helped Yorkshire to the top of the Vitality Blast North Group table at the group stage\u2019s midway point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a really nice batch of boys. We\u2019re covering all the departments in T20 cricket. We have lots of options. We have players like Faheem Ashraf and Moeen Ali, who is one of the best all-rounders in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have those kind of players in your squad, we can say, \u2018Yeah, we have a good side\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have two games in the red-ball coming up now, and we want to win those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added his excellent form with the ball, Hassan crashed 31 not out off 12 balls against Derbyshire at Headingley, which helped the White Rose recover from 139-8 in the 16th over chasing 195 to win. AJ Tye also thumped an unbeaten 32 off 13.<\/p>\n

And Hassan added: \u201cThat was one my best innings so far in T20 cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sitting with Faheem before I went in, and we were looking at the scoreboard. The run-rate was going up and up. But he was saying, \u2018One or two good overs and we\u2019ll be on the winning side\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat kept in my mind, and I just tried to watch the ball. But Andrew Tye was the one who started to shift the momentum to our side. That was a good innings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Jonny Bairstow is happy with where Yorkshire sit in the Vitality Blast, their four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}