Seeking a first T20 Blast crown, Yorkshire raced out of the blocks against Nottinghamshire at a sweltering Headingley as Lyth and Will Luxton (38) shared an 89-run opening stand inside the opening eight overs.<\/p>\n
Jonny Bairstow (32) and Logan van Beek (28) helped to set the already-qualified visitors a target of 194.<\/p>\n
Root’s two wickets, along with Andrew Tye (3-18) and Hassan Ali (2-30) helped reduce Notts to 107-7 but some late hitting from Dillon Pennington (37) threatened to derail the Yorkshire victory charge before he became Tye’s second victim.<\/p>\n
At Old Trafford, Lancashire made hard work of overhauling Durham’s 141 all out after they had won the toss and elected to bat.<\/p>\n
Only Colin Ackermann (66 not out) was able to get to grips with some tight Lancashire bowling as Shadab Khan and Saqib Mahmood claimed three wickets each.<\/p>\n
The home side seemed to be cruising at 117-4 at the start of the 17th over but a three-wicket burst from Ben Raine (4-21) left the nerves jangling among home supporters, but Keaton Jennings (41 not out) steered them over the line with two balls remaining.<\/p>\n
Lancashire now need Essex to lose at Surrey in one of Sunday’s late games to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Derbyshire Falcons avoided the wooden spoon and consigned three-times Blast champions Leicestershire Foxes to bottom spot in the group with a crushing seven-wicket victory.<\/p>\n
Falcons captain Aneurin Donald struck a career best 91 as the home side easily overhauled the Foxes 171-8 with Ashton Turner’s 79 the mainstay for the visitors, while Akif Javed returned T20-best figures of 4-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seeking a first T20 Blast crown, Yorkshire raced out of the blocks against Nottinghamshire at a sweltering Headingley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-688107","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\/688107","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=688107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}