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Picture by John Clifton\/SWPix.com. Will Luxton was in the runs at York today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Will Luxton was thrilled with Yorkshire\u2019s Roses victory at York today, one which helped them take a significant step towards the knockout stages in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire won by seven wickets chasing 295 against the Red Rose county at a sold-out Clifton Park.<\/p>\n
It was their third straight win at the start of Group B, which they lead, and it was also the first time the county have won three successive List A matches since 2018.<\/p>\n
Luxton contributed a fine 77 off 63 balls in Yorkshire\u2019s reply to 294-7, and he shared 153 for the second wicket with centurion Imam-Ul-Haq, who led the way with 117 off 124.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was Imam\u2019s second hundred in as many matches, added to an opening day fifty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luxton said: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t have asked for a more perfect start, really (to the campaign).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we\u2019re good at Scarborough, but we\u2019ve struggled in the last few years at York. So today was a big day for us. Luckily, we came out and played a good game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey started off really well, which they\u2019re allowed to do. But we held it well and came back nicely.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always tough at York to know how to go about it in a 50-over game (with the toss).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quite tough because it does nip and is a little bit slow. But once you get in, it becomes easier. The outfield is so quick, and it\u2019s obviously not very big.<\/p>\n
\u201cLuckily we won the toss, stuck them in, and obviously they started well, like I said before. But we held them to a decent score.<\/p>\n
\u201cI personally thought they could have got a massive score. But we said, \u2018290, it was about par\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe back ourselves to chase, but we needed someone to get a hundred, and Imam did again. It was great to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Imam is now the competition\u2019s leading run-scorer with 331 at an average of 110.33.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnbelievable,\u201d said Luxton. \u201cJust the way he goes, the way he just builds his innings, it makes it look so easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s never in any danger, he knocks it about, gets to a hundred and sees us home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other day at Northampton, it was massive (to watch and learn from him).<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing how he went about getting 160, because that\u2019s a massive score.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt never looked like he was rushed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luxton\u2019s innings today was a key part of why Yorkshire chased so comfortably.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lancashire started well with the ball and restricted Yorkshire to 39-1 after 10 overs.<\/p>\n
But, in the 11th over, Luxton hit the lion\u2019s share of 21 off seamer Will Williams to change the momentum of the innings. Off the first four balls of the over, he hit a six and three fours.<\/p>\n
Luxton added: \u201cThe coach (Anthony McGrath) is so good at saying, \u2018Go and play your own game\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just the natural thing for me. \u201cIt\u2019s just see the ball and if it\u2019s there, try and hit it. Then you don\u2019t have to think about much else other than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by John Clifton\/SWPix.com. Will Luxton was in the runs at York today.\u00a0 Will Luxton was thrilled with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-63781","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\/63781","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=63781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}