Recent Match Report – Yorkshire vs Derbyshire North Group 2022

Derbyshire 105 for 4 (du Plooy 48*, Leech 3-13) beat Yorkshire 175 (Brook 77, Scrimshaw 3-20) by six wickets (DLS methodology)

Brook held Yorkshire’s innings along with nice maturity, making 77 from 50 balls in a complete of 175 which flirted with collapse all through. His captaincy had begun with a golden duck, however a group victory at Durham. It was a even handed innings, stuffed with exquisitely timed strokes, and he most likely felt he had accomplished sufficient.

But a chronic break for rain lowered Derbyshire’s goal to 105 from 10. It was nip and tuck all through, however Derbyshire wanted 19 from the ultimate over. Brook opted for Matthew Waite, forward of Matthew Revis, because the rain returned, and the remaining was most likely a blur. It definitely was for Waite.

Waite, who had to deal with a moist ball, by no means actually settled to his job. There have been quite a lot of conversations, involving not simply Brook but additionally Shadab Khan and, briefly, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, some gesticulating by the bowler and greatest-laid plans got here to naught. Derbyshire, who’re enjoying cool-headed T20 cricket beneath the affect of Mickey Arthur, have crushed Yorkshire twice this season and now substitute them within the high 4.

He was entrusted with the brand new ball and took two wickets in his first over. Luis Reece scooped his first ball over wonderful leg for six, however he was plumb lbw to the following. After two swish and misses, Wayne Madsen edged to the wicketkeeper for a 3rd-ball duck. Brook was pressured to deliver him again for the eighth over with Shan Masood and du Plooy in management and once more he got here up trumps by having Masood effectively caught at brief third. Dom Bess appeared to jar his knee within the course of and left the sector injured.

Yorkshire can hardly afford any extra harm blows. They are making do with out their regular T20 captain, David Willey, Adil Rashid and Dawid Malan, who’re within the Netherlands with England. Their high-order batting is as damaging because it has been in T20 for a few years, the primary cause to think about that Willey, who’s leaving for Northants on the finish of the season, has a preventing probability of preserving his promise to depart them with their first T20 title by the use of recompense.

That Willey is leaving, grumbling that Yorkshire are placing the restoring of their popularity forward of cricketing success (certainly the 2 goals are intertwined?), may be laid no less than partly on the door of the malcontents who disrupted the AGM in protest on the county’s reforms, and delayed the formation of a brand new impartial board, which in flip meant that finalising of contract gives didn’t progress as quick as he needed.

Trying for successive straight sixes off the legspinner Matty McKienan, he ought to have been stumped. His 37 from 17 balls ended on the final ball of the Powerplay when he drilled McKiernan to midwicket, leaving Yorkshire dicily positioned at 62 for 3.

The prime cause for that was Mark Watt, the Scotland spinner, who bowled three Yorkshire batters with close to yorkers. His first over was a double-wicket maiden as Adam Lyth, opening his entrance leg, fell to Watt’s first ball; and Kohler-Cadmore made room to the off facet and swung throughout one. Shadab Khan, who discovered batting kind in a Pakistan ODI in Multan final Sunday, slapped the ball round to good impact and dented the roof of the St John Ambulance stationed behind the press field earlier than he fell at 109 for 4 with 9 overs remaining.

With Shadab’s departure went Brook’s assist. Beyond the highest order, they’re misfiring. Fraine and Jordan Thompson are each having unrewarding seasons with the bat and Revis is simply too low within the order to make an influence. Fraine struck Yorkshire’s quickest white-ball 50 on this floor final season, in a Royal London Cup recreation lowered to 10 overs, however not for the primary time his hitting was underpowered as he struck Hughes to lengthy-on. Thompson is a bullish kind, however he had a tortuous time, 12 from 17 and not using a boundary to his identify.

Thompson was the primary of three wickets within the remaining over for George Scrimshaw, who Derbyshire followers put in the identical pace class of the likes of Mark Wood. Injuries are largely limiting him to brief codecs, however he had Thompson and Revis caught on the wicket, and Bess lbw. Scrimshaw and Watt each had three wickets apiece, at economical price, and the Vikings misplaced their final 5 wickets for six runs in 11 balls. With bat and ball, they lacked for expertise when the strain was at its highest.