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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Anthony McGrath remains confident regarding Yorkshire\u2019s knockout qualification chances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anthony McGrath was far from downbeat after today\u2019s Metro Bank One-Day Cup defeat against Somerset at York.<\/p>\n
The county\u2019s head watched his side lose their first game in four in Group B, by six wickets defending 248, but remains confident they can qualify for the knockouts.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire remain top of Group B on 12 points from four games. Having won three games convincingly, they are ahead of Somerset courtesy of a superior net run-rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yorkshire would qualify for knockout cricket with a top-three finish in the group. Top spot would advance them directly to a home semi-final, second and third place would see them play a quarter-final.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving been really, really good in the first three games, we were below our best today, which can happen,\u201d said McGrath.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomerset bowled well up front. When you lose three wickets in the powerplay, it\u2019s always tough. With Matthew Revis (85) and George Hill (41), we got it back to 170-odd with 35 overs gone. Then we just lost wickets at key times.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the end, we were probably 30 short. Even so, we were bowled out for eight balls left. Another 20 runs, it would\u2019ve been tight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the ball, we had to get early wickets, and we just couldn\u2019t quite do that. But we fought hard until the end.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we were going to win that, we had to get wickets to drive the run-rate up. While they had wickets in hand, it was always going to be tough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, look, after four games, we\u2019ve got to look at the positives from the last 10 days, refresh and be ready for (Middlesex at) Radlett on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree wins from four is a good start. If we\u2019d have won today, It would have put us in a brilliant position. But everyone\u2019s got to play everyone still. There\u2019s no reason not to be confident with how we\u2019ve gone about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matthew Revis was Yorkshire\u2019s standout player today with a List A best of 85 added to two wickets, the all-rounder continuing his excellent recent form against white ball and red.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McGrath added: \u201cWe know he\u2019s got to be careful with his back (following a stress fracture around this time last year). But I think his bowling is coming back now where we know it can be.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a genuine all-rounder.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis batting, it\u2019s superb in all forms. It\u2019s great to see him play with that confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Anthony McGrath remains confident regarding Yorkshire\u2019s knockout qualification chances.\u00a0 Anthony McGrath was far from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-67900","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\/67900","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=67900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}