{"id":685631,"date":"2026-07-11T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685631\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:16:11","slug":"match-report-lancashire-lightning-v-yorkshire-men-vitality-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685631\/","title":{"rendered":"MATCH REPORT: Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire Men, Vitality Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Picture by Jan Kruger\/Getty Images. Logan van Beek had an excellent night in a losing cause.<\/p>\n

SCORECARD\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire, Vitality Blast North Group, Friday July 10, 2026, 7pm, Emirates Old Trafford\u00a0<\/p>\n

Toss: Lancashire won it and elected to bat<\/p>\n

Teams: \u2013 Lancashire: Keaton Jennings c, Michael Jones, Liam Livingstone, Matty Hurst w, Shadab Khan, Ben McDermott, Joe Moores, Jack Blatherwick, Tom Hartley, Mitch Stanley, Sir James Anderson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yorkshire: Adam Lyth, Jonny Bairstow c\/w, Will Luxton, Joe Root, Moeen Ali, Matthew Revis, AJ Tye, Hassan Ali, Logan van Beek, Jafer Chohan, Dan Moriarty.<\/p>\n

Match Summary: Yorkshire were made to wait to seal quarter-final qualification as Lancashire secured a 22-run Roses win which boosted their own hopes.<\/p>\n

Liam Livingstone clattered 60 off 39 balls with four sixes and as many fours in Lightning\u2019s 216-6. Logan van Beek struck three times for Yorkshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yorkshire then crumbled to 47-5 inside seven overs of their chase, with Sir James Anderson even getting Joe Root for four along the way. The White Rose then impressively careered to 194-8, a significant boost to their net run-rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Picture by Jan Kruger\/Getty Images. Dan Moriarty struck early to remove Keaton Jennings.<\/p>\n

Matthew Revis top-scored with 52 off 38 balls, while van Beek added 40.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yorkshire remain second in the North Group despite a fourth defeat in 11 games and could still qualify for the quarter-finals without getting another point. That wouldn\u2019t be desirable, clearly, and they will be desperate to beat group winners Nottinghamshire Outlaws at Headingley on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lancashire can still mathematically replace them in second. But, even with this win, that\u2019s unlikely given Yorkshire\u2019s superior net run-rate. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Report: Dan Moriarty conceded only one and had Keaton Jennings caught at point in the second over, but Lancashire raced to 70-1 after six thanks to Ben McDermott and Liam Livingstone, who hit his fourth fifty of the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McDermott fell caught at deep square-leg off Jafer Chohan for 46 \u2013 89-2 in the ninth \u2013 before Livingstone reached a 28-ball fifty in the next over.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matty Hurst hit Chohan for back-to-back sixes, but he and Livingstone both fell to Dutch seamer Logan van Beek in the 13th, leaving Lancashire at 129-4.<\/p>\n

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Picture by Jan Kruger\/Getty Images. Yorkshire\u2019s and Lancashire\u2019s players take to the field at Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground this evening.<\/p>\n

Livingstone was brilliantly caught behind by Jonny Bairstow trying to uppercut.<\/p>\n

Overseas Van Beek was in for his first game of the campaign because of a hand injury for Faheem Ashraf.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shadab Khan with a particularly powerful cameo of 38 off 20 balls then helped Lancashire finish strongly. He hit two leg-side sixes off his fellow Pakistani Hassan Ali.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bairstow didn\u2019t open the batting for the White Rose, but his replacement Will Luxton crashed Sir James Anderson for six over long-on as 13 came from the first over of the chase. However, he didn\u2019t last long, bowled attacking at Stanley in the second.<\/p>\n

Mitch Stanley also had Adam Lyth caught behind with a short ball before Anderson got Root. Stanley then had Bairstow caught at cover off a miscue before Moeen Ali was caught one-handed above his head at midwicket by Jennings off Shadab\u2019s leg-spin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 47-5 after 6.1 overs, Yorkshire were all but sunk as the Lightning raced towards avenging defeat at Headingley earlier in the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Picture by Jan Kruger\/Getty Images. Joe Root played for Yorkshire this evening ahead of England\u2019s ODI series against India next week.<\/p>\n

Matthew Revis and van Beek settled things down for Yorkshire, importantly protecting their net run-rate, which could come into play on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Van Beek played nicely for 40 to add to his earlier three wickets before slicing a catch off Jack Blatherwick to third, where a diving Joe Moores held on brilliantly.<\/p>\n

Revis surpassed him for 52 off 38, while AJ Tye hit three sixes off one Blatherwick over and added 29 not out off 14. But they were consolatory efforts.<\/p>\n

Stanley, defending 37 off the last over, struck again to get Hassan caught in the deep.<\/p>\n

Turning Point: The first 37 balls of Yorkshire\u2019s chase, which saw them slump to 47-5. Mitch Stanley struck three times to all but ice the game for Lancashire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Magic Moment: Sorry, Lythy, but it amused everyone in the Yorkshire camp when he was struck flush on the helmet badge by a Sir James Anderson bouncer in the third over and left him with a mark flush on his forehead. Someone in the press box said that it made him look like the baddy from Home Alone!<\/p>\n

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Picture by Jan Kruger\/Getty Images. Sir James Anderson celebrates the dismissal of Joe Root.<\/p>\n

Stat of the Match: Yorkshire\u2019s record chase remains the Durham game at Headingley in June 2022 when they chased down 208 to win by six wickets. <\/p>\n

What they said \u2013 Yorkshire all-rounder Moeen Ali said:\u00a0 \u201cThey played well and we weren\u2019t quite on it, especially in the field. I thought it was our probably worst performance in the field. It can happen, but it hasn\u2019t happened all year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey played well, we didn\u2019t play so well, but we still \u2013 in the end \u2013 gave it a go and probably saved our run-rate. That\u2019s crucial in the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was probably a poor game from our point. But, in a way, it\u2019s nice to get out of the way and move forwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just probably conceded more runs in the end. It was probably a 180 sort of wicket. We did really well from being in the position we were, five down for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next: Yorkshire round off their group campaign on Sunday afternoon, at 3.30pm, with a meeting of the top two teams in the group. They face Nottinghamshire Outlaws, the team they beat on the opening night.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Jan Kruger\/Getty Images. Logan van Beek had an excellent night in a losing cause. SCORECARD\u00a0 Lancashire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685631","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\/685631","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=685631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}