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Picture by Simon Wilkinson\/SWPix.com. Matt Milnes starred with seven wickets, including a hat-trick, at Hove today.<\/p>\n
Matt Milnes described Yorkshire\u2019s performance in beating Sussex at Hove as \u201cbrilliant\u201d as they all but sealed a home semi-final in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Milnes claimed a List A career best 7-38 from 10 overs in Sussex\u2019s 284-9.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His haul \u2013 the third best by a Yorkshire bowler in this format \u2013 also included the county\u2019s sixth List A hat-trick. He is the fifth White Rose bowler to achieve that feat as well.<\/p>\n
Milnes was delighted for those reasons, clearly, but also because the county can now start planning for a home semi-final at Scarborough next Sunday.<\/p>\n
With a four-point gap to three teams below them \u2013 Somerset, Warwickshire and Middlesex \u2013 with only one group game remaining, and a vastly superior net run-rate, it would take a miracle to prevent that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a pretty good day obviously, to get the win and pretty much get the home semi on Sunday,\u201d said Milnes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were brilliant today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe set the tone early on, bowling pretty well up front.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pitch offered a tiny bit up front, but I think it was a pretty good wicket to bat on the whole day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lads backed me and Cliffy up beautifully. Hilly and Rev bowled\u00a0 brilliantly. And then we did a steady job of closing it out at the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, the way the guys approached that innings there was just high class.<\/p>\n
\u201cImam is class. Every game, it\u2019s just a pleasure to watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd obviously Wharts. That partnership with those guys, Wharts played beautifully. I\u2019m devastated for him that he didn\u2019t get a hundred, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s just around the corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two lads at the end as well \u2013 Rev and Hilly \u2013 two little cameos to finish it off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yorkshire were tested at various times today and had to come through tricky periods in the game to win for the sixth time in seven.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time we\u2019ve won, I think we\u2019ve won through different positions, which naturally gives you confidence,\u201d said Milnes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of confident lads in the group at the minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe batting unit\u2019s very confident, and you can see by the way they approach their innings \u2013 how controlled it all looks.\u201d<\/p>\n
And on his own display, Milnes said: \u201cThe amount of dark days I\u2019ve had in the last two years, to have a couple of good days in the last month. I can\u2019t put it into words really. It\u2019s such a nice feeling.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been dying for these moments in the last two years when I\u2019ve been in the gym helplessly watching the lads go about their stuff. Just to be a part of it now, I\u2019m just loving every second of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milnes joked that \u201cI will probably get a bit of stick from both parties\u201d as he gets set to head to face Kent at Canterbury on Tuesday, a county he will rejoin in the winter after three years at Headingley.<\/p>\n
But he will be putting that to one side for now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI absolutely love these lads,\u201d he added, of his Yorkshire team-mates. \u201cThe dressing room is absolute quality.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody wants each other to do well, and it\u2019s a fantastic, fantastic dressing room with a lot of talented lads.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just desperate to win this competition with this group. For me, that would be a great way to sign off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Simon Wilkinson\/SWPix.com. Matt Milnes starred with seven wickets, including a hat-trick, at Hove today. Matt Milnes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-90847","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\/90847","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=90847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}