Live: Headingley double-header day as Blast reaches crescendo
Yorkshire's women and then men are in Vitality Blast action against Somerset and Durham respectively. Both sides need a win for different reasons. Follow this page for live updates throughout the day.
12 off the last needed
Sam Whiteman retired out, Faheem in. Matthew Potts bowling.
Two off the first, Revis on strike.
One off the second. Nine to win off four.
Bye. Eight off three. Revis back on strike.
Four. Four off two balls.
Six wins it.
That’s our fifth win from nine games, achieved by five wickets with one ball left.
29 off 2 overs needed
It’s down to Sam Whiteman and Matthew Revis.
We’re 179-4 after 18 overs.
Game still alive as Moeen goes
Moeen Ali is caught at deep backward square for a brilliant 60, off Callum Parkinson. It’s 168-4 in the 17th. We need 38 with Sam Whiteman and Matthew Revis together.
Moeen 50
Moeen Ali has reached a fifty off 28 balls. Superb.
Yorkshire 160-3 in the 16th over.
Sixes galore
It feels like Yorkshire’s game to lose as Moeen Ali hits four sixes in five balls, including three in a row, off Kasey Aldridge to move to 43. Yorkshire 148-3 in the 15th over, needing 57 more.
Yorkshire 107-3, 12th over
Jonny Bairstow drills Ben Raine to cover, falling for 66.
Sam Whiteman in alongside Moeen Ali, who has 8. Yorkshire need 99 more to win.
Yorkshire 103-2, 10 overs
Bon Jovi territory here. Halfway there.
Yorkshire need 103 more to win.
Bairstow 50
Jonny Bairstow has reached a 26-ball fifty, with Yorkshire 87-2 in the ninth over.
Bairstow and Moeen Ali are just ticking along at present safe in the knowledge they don’t need to do anything outlandish chasing 206.
Yorkshire 81-2, 7th over
Will Luxton bowled Nathan Sowter, 6.
Jonny Bairstow has 48 and has been joined at the crease by Moeen Ali as we chase 206.
Wow, watch a catch
Ben Raine has just taken a one-handed stunner off his own bowling, low down going to his right to get rid of Adam Lyth for 26.
Yorkshire 54-1 in the fifth.
Will Luxton in alongside Jonny Bairstow, who has 28.
Yorkshire 34-0 in the third over
Yorkshire well on their way already to this 206-target.
Jonny Bairstow has 21.
Yorkshire 1-0 after one ball
We’re chasing 206, with Adam Lyth having just taken a single off Callum Parkinson’s spin.
Jonny Bairstow on strike now.
Hassan strikes twice in the last
Hassan Ali finishes with three wickets, and Durham have only posted 205-9 having been 89-0 after six.
Hassan Ali strikes
Ben Raine tries to ramp and can only find Moeen Ali at short fine-leg.
Durham are 183-7 in the 18th over.
Durham 177-6, 16 overs
Jafer Chohan has just got Kasey Aldridge caught at long-on, his third wicket.
Durham may well fall short here.
Initially, I was thinking 230 is about par on this pitch.
Durham 170-5, 15th over
Ben McKinney – on a career best 42 – miscues a catch to mid-off. AJ Tye has a second wicket.
Durham 160-4, 14th over
Ollie Robinson has been caught behind off Jafer Chohan, 8.
It was actually caught in front!
Top-edge loops up and Bairstow comes from behind the stumps, dives and takes the catch one-handed.
Durham 159-3 after 13.1 overs
Durham were pegged back by those two quick wickets for AJ Tye and Jafer Chohan, but now they’ve put their foot down again.
Ben McKinney has 35 off 16 balls.
Durham 120-3, 10th over
David Bedingham has been bowled pulling at Jafer Chohan for 12.
Couple of key wickets for Yorkshire recently.
Durham 114-2, 9 overs
Alex Lees caught behind Jonny Bairstow bowled AJ Tye, 73.
Top-edged pull and Bairstow takes a skied chance.
David Bedingham and Ben McKinney together now.
Durham 97-1, 7.1 overs
Graham Clark pulls Faheem Ashraf to wide long-on for 29.
David Bedingham in now to join his skipper Alex Lees, who has 68.
Lees 50
Alex Lees has reached a 21-ball fifty.
Durham are 82-0 midway through the sixth over.
Durham 42-0, 3.1 overs
Alex Lees has raced to 35 off 13 balls and Graham Clark has 7.
Away we go for the men's game
Hassan Ali is bowling to Graham Clark.
If the women’s game is anything to go by, Durham will need loads here. May not turn out that way, but you’d have to say it’s likely.
Durham win it and elect to bat
Yorkshire: Jonny Bairstow c/w, Adam Lyth, Will Luxton, Sam Whiteman, Matthew Revis, Moeen Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Hassan Ali, AJ Tye, Jafer Chohan, Dan Moriarty.
YORKSHIRE WIN!!!
Yorkshire have won their first match in nine in this season’s Blast.
Anika Learoyd with a brilliant 103 not out off 49 balls.
Yorkshire win by 11 runs. Somerset 199-5.
Somerset are 179-5, 19 overs
They need 32 to win off the last, bowled by Jess Jonassen.
Somerset 167-3, needing 44 off three overs
Anika Learoyd on 82 looms as the danger here.
Somerset 140-3, 15 overs
Sarah Glenn has bowled Niamh Holland amidst conceding just three from the 15th over.
Somerset need 71 to win. Anika Learoyd still there on 57.
Somerset 114-2, 12 overs
Somerset need 97 more to win.
They’re going well, with Anika Learoyd on 46, but they just feel like they could do with being 15 runs further on.
That can easily change. Yorkshire still have work to do.
Somerset 81-2 in the ninth over
Bex Odgers has been trapped lbw by Sarah Glenn for 39.
Anika Learoyd has 28.
Somerset 62-1 early in the seventh
Somerset have started very nicely here thanks largely to Bex Odgers, who has 32.
They’re chasing 211.
Jess Woolston breaks through
Sophie Luff has skewed a catch to short third, and Sarah Glenn takes it very smartly, peddling back and tumbling.
Australian Anika Learoyd in now alongside Bex Odgers, who has 17.
Somerset 30-1 in the fourth over chasing 211.
Yorkshire defending 211
Somerset 12-0 after one over.
Sophie Luff and Bex Odgers at the crease.
Hannah Rainey bowled that first over and now for Holly Garton.
Odgers has just pulled a big six, surprisingly the first of the match.
Oh no
Lauren Winfield-Hill has fallen for 99, caught at backward point off a miscue against Maddie Russell.
The partnership of 167 between Lauren and Sterre Kalis 63 is the joint highest fourth-wicket partnership by anybody in women’s T20 cricket anywhere in the world. Incredible.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com.
Kalis 50
Sterre Kalis has reached her fifty off 33 balls.
Lauren Winfield-Hill is eyeing a century, on 93.
Yorkshire 166-3 in the 17th over.
Records.....
Yorkshire 146-3, 15th over.
Lauren Winfield-Hill 78 and Sterre Kalis 48.
These two have shared 124, which is the highest fourth-wicket partnership in the two-year history of this competition. It’s also the highest partnership for any wicket in this season’s Blast.
Winfield-Hill 50
Brilliant from the skipper!
Lauren Winfield-Hill has reached her fifty off 31 balls, and Yorkshire are 102-3 in the 12th over.
Her and Sterre Kalis 32 have shared 84 and counting.
It’s the highest fourth-wicket partnership by anybody in this season’s competition.
Going to be some runs at Headingley today
These look like perfect batting conditions; true pitch, fast outfield.
Yorkshire 87-3 in the 11th over.
Lauren Winfield-Hill has 42 and Sterre Kalis 29. They’ve shared 69 for the fourth wicket.
And Niamh Holland has been removed from the attack for bowling two head-high full tosses at Winfield-Hill.
Yorkshire 48-3, 7th over
Lauren Winfield-Hill has moved to 21 and has started very nicely, so too Sterre Kalis, who has 14.
Back-to-back boundaries for Lauren
Lauren Winfield-Hill drives two boundaries down the ground off the seam of Alex Griffiths, one went through the legs of mid-off and the other much straighter and aerially.
She has 14 of 32-3 in the fifth over.
Yorkshire 18-3, 4th over
Jess Jonassen caught Niamh Holland bowled Maddie Russell, 2.
Jonassen cuts the left-armer low down to cover.
Sterre Kalis in now alongside Lauren Winfield-Hill, who has 5.
Make that 22-3 as Kalis pulls her first ball for four.
Yorkshire 11-2, 2nd over
Ami Campbell has been caught at cover by Anika Learoyd off the bowling of Maddie Russell, 5.
Lauren Winfield-Hill and Jess Jonassen together now.
Yorkshire 7-1, 1 over
Erin Thomas caught and bowled Alex Griffiths, 6.
Went on the attack but could only top-edge and sky a return catch. Well held.
Jess Jonassen in now.
All set here at Headingley
Ami Campbell and Erin Thomas are opening the batting for Yorkshire.
Alex Griffiths has the new ball for Somerset.
Somerset win it and elect to bowl
Yorkshire team: Ami Campbell, Erin Thomas, Jess Jonassen, Lauren Winfield-Hill c/w, Sterre Kalis, Sarah Glenn, Alice Clarke, Beth Langston, Hannah Rainey, Jess Woolston, Holly Garton.
Good afternoon...
From Headingley, where it’s a dry and bright afternoon.
It’s double-header day here, with Yorkshire’s women facing Somerset this afternoon and our men taking on Durham this evening.
The women are bidding for their first win in this season’s Blast, while the men need one to strengthen their bid for the quarter-finals.
Somerset and Durham are both in the mix for Finals Day and the quarter-finals respectively.
We get going at 2.30pm and 6.30pm respectively.
You can read our previews for both games, one with Ami Campbell and the other with AJ Tye, via the links below.
The stream will be embedded at the top of the page before we get going.