Live: Bears v Yorkshire, Vitality Blast

Sam Hain finishes 24 not out.

Yorkshire have now played three, lost three in the Blast.

We face Leicestershire Foxes at Headingley on Sunday afternoon (3pm).

Sam Hain has iced this game with a couple of boundaries off Will O’Rourke and a six over mid-wicket.

Bears are 164-4 in the 19th over.

Moeen Ali caught Adam Lyth bowled Matt Milnes, 10.

Skewed out to deep cover.

Milnes finishes with excellent 3-23. Bears still need 17 to win. Yorkshire are in this.

Bears are 135-3, needing 30 more to win.

Alex Davies caught Matthew Revis bowled Matt Milnes, 65.

Good catch in the deep running forwards. Yorkshire have a glimmer, with the Bears needing 165.

Sam Hain and Moeen Ali at the crease.

Dan Mousley caught behind Harry Duke bowled Matt Milnes, 13.

Superbly caught behind by Duke, handing Milnes his first wicket. 165-target, with Alex Davies 61 and Sam Hain at the crease.

Tom Latham caught Matthew Revis bowled Dom Bess, 44.

Caught at deep mid-wicket.

Yorkshire are going to need a few more wickets very quickly.

The Bears’ captain has reached his fifty off 30 balls, taking the score to 92-0 after 10 overs. They need 75 more to win.

The hosts are motoring along now. Alex Davies has 47 and Tom Latham 34. Whilst going along at a fair old rate, it hasn’t really felt like it’s been overdrive hitting. There’s been a lot of control and a lot of gap hitting.

Nothing too fancy from the Bears. Alex Davies has 27 and Tom Latham 11 as they pursue this 165.

Matt Milnes is searching for the breakthrough.

The Bears have got off to a steady start in pursuit of 165 thanks to Alex Davies and Tom Latham. Dom Bess is currently bowling the fourth over.

They are 7-0 after one over from Dan Moriarty.

Tom Latham and Alex Davies are opening the batting for the Bears.

Dawid Malan finishes with 69 not out off 48 balls, with Jafer Chohan adding 11 not out at the end.

Yorkshire have something to work with, but it should have been verging on a 200 total if not more. That loss of five wickets hurt them badly, as you’d expect.

Matt Milnes run out, 2.

Oh no, Milnes has departed now.

He miscues Hassan Ali into the blockhole, sets off without really knowing where the ball is and is sent back. The bowler does the rest. Jafer Chohan is in now alongside Dawid Malan, who has 64.

Harry Duke lbw Danny Briggs, 1.

Another one falls, and all of a sudden Yorkshire are in some trouble. Matt Milnes is in alongside Dawid Malan, who has 64. He’s really been starved of the strike in recent overs.

Yorkshire have fallen from 139-2 to 143-6.

Now Moeen Ali has struck in the 16th, Dom Bess chipping to mid-wicket.

Yorkshire have lost three wickets in eight balls.

Harry Duke and David Malan, who has 62, are at the crease.

Matthew Revis caught behind Alex Davies bowled Jake Lintott, 0.

Caught behind down leg. Two wickets in the over for the Bears’ left-arm wrist spinner.

Dom Bess in now.

James Wharton caught Hassan Ali bowled Jake Lintott, 39.

Holed out to long-on, ending a 74-run partnership with Dawid Malan, who has 61.

He’s been joined at the crease by Matthew Revis.

Yorkshire are in excellent order here at 132-2 in the 14th over, with Dawid Malan 60 and James Wharton 33.

But it looks a good pitch, so even 200 plus may not be out of reach for the Bears. We’re set for a belter of a game.

Dawid Malan has reached an excellent fifty off 32 balls, including a couple of sixes. Excellent.

Yorkshire 110-2 in the 12th over.

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Yorkshire 87-2 after 10 overs. Dawid Malan has 35 and James Wharton 15.

The latter has just hoisted a big six over long-on.

Decent platf0rm for the White Rose.

Adam Lyth caught Jake Lintott bowled Moeen Ali, 7.

Lyth pulls Moeen’s off-spin to deep mid-wicket. James Wharton in now alongside Dawid Malan, who has 28.

Bears are going down the route of spin here. They have used four spinners in the first eight overs, with Moeen Ali following Danny Briggs, Dan Mousley and Jake Lintott into the attack.

Yorkshire have reached 65-1 in the eighth.

The visitors enjoy a decent power-play as Dawid Malan reaches 19, including a six, and Adam Lyth has 3. Bears have bowled four overs of spin in that first six.

Will Luxton bowled Danny Briggs, 24.

A bright start is checked by the Bears’ left-arm spinner. Adam Lyth in at number three alongside Dawid Malan, who has 6.

We’ve moved to 33-0 in the fourth over, with Luxton on 24. He has just hoisted Dan Mousley’s off-spin over wide long-on for six. Excellent.

Will Luxton has taken 12 of 13 off the first two overs, including a couple of boundaries.

Dawid Malan and Will Luxton opening the batting for Yorkshire.

Yorkshire: Adam Lyth, Dawid Malan c, Will Luxton, James Wharton, Harry Duke w, Matthew Revis, Dom Bess, Matt Milnes, Jafer Chohan, Dan Moriarty, Will O’Rourke.

Bears: Alex Davies c&w, Tom Latham, Moeen Ali, Sam Hain, Dan Mousley, Ed Barnard, George Garton, Danny Briggs, Jake Lintott, Craig Miles, Hassan Ali. 

After the conclusion of the women’s game, which the Bears won, the players have just started their warm-ups.

A noticeable presence on the field is Kabir Ali, Yorkshire’s former men’s fast bowling coach, who is in Warwickshire gear and is currently greeting members of the White Rose squad. He is the Bears’ women’s bowling coach. Ali Maiden, Yorkshire’s former batting coach, is also out there. He’s in charge of Bears’ women.

George Hill has taken two wickets for the England Lions against India A, who are 267-5. He has removed opener KL Rahul for 116 and Dhruv Jurel for 52.

Elsewhere in the Vitality Blast this evening.

North Group 

Worcestershire Rapids v Northamptonshire Steelbacks, Visit Worcestershire New Road

Leicestershire Foxes v Durham, the Uptonsteel County Ground, Grace Road 

Derbyshire Falcons v Nottinghamshire Outlaws, The Central Co-op County Ground

South Group 

Essex Eagles v Middlesex, The Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford

Kent Spitfires v Hampshire Hawks, The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury 

Sussex Sharks v Glamorgan, The 1st Central County Ground, Hove

Hampshire Hawks v Gloucestershire, The Utilita Bowl

We’ve arrived in Birmingham for tonight’s Vitality Blast clash with the Bears, starting at 7pm.

There is currently a women’s Blast game being played between the Bears and Somerset. They’re in the first innings, and Yorkshire’s on loan batter Sterre Kalis is at the crease for the Bears unbeaten on 20 out of 68-4 in the ninth over.

Yorkshire’s men are bidding for a first win at the third attempt this evening, and they face a Bears’ side who have also lost their first two fixtures.

Jonny Bairstow misses out with a calf injury, while Will Sutherland is out with a broken toe.

This is the first of three games in a key six-day period for Yorkshire’s Blast campaign. They return to Headingley to face Leicestershire Foxes on Sunday afternoon before travelling to Trent Bridge to face Nottinghamshire Outlaws on Wednesday evening.

You can read our preview for this fixture, with Anthony McGrath, via the link in the embedded X post above.