Live: Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire Men, Vitality Blast
Yorkshire are in Roses action across the Pennines, taking on Lancashire Lightning at Emirates Old Trafford from 7pm. The White Rose have won the last two clashes against the Lightning, both at Headingley. Can they extend that run this evening? Follow this page for live updates.
YORKSHIRE WIN!!!
We remain alive in the Vitality Blast, just.
Lancashire 217-7, Yorkshire win by 19.
Jonny Bairstow 116 outstanding, so too Will Luxton.
Wickets shared around, but Dom Bess to the fore with a wicket, two catches and a hand in a run out.
Lancashire 196-7, 19.1 overs
Yorkshire are going to win in their fourth match of the campaign.
Lancashire 173-7, 17.1 overs
Ashton Turner caught Will Sutherland bowled Matt Milnes, 33.
Caught at long-off as Sutherland safely navigated the boundary whilst juggling.
Game over now.
Lancashire 172-6, 17 overs
Chris Green run out, 6.
Run out coming back for two to Bess, who has been a live-wire in the field. 237-target.
Lancashire need 72 from four overs
Lightning are 165-5 from 16 overs. Ashton Turner 28 and Chris Green 5.
Lancashire 140-5, 13.5 overs
Michael Jones caught behind Jonny Bairstow bowled Jafer Chohan, 6.
Yorkshire tighten the screw. 237-target.
Lancashire 133-4, 12.5 overs
Luke Wells caught James Wharton bowled Dom Bess, 8.
Caught low down at long-on. Brilliant catch.
Lancashire 124-3, 11.5 overs
Jos Buttler caught behind Jonny Bairstow bowled Jordan Thompson, 55.
Top-edged pull.
Yorkshire are a long way ahead now. They’ve struck a huge blow.
Lancashire 103-2, 9.3 overs
Phil Salt caught Dom Bess bowled Jordan Thompson, 38.
Caught at long-on.
Crucial breakthrough. Ashton Turner in alongside Jos Buttler, who has 42.
237-target.
Lancashire 98-1, 9 overs
The hosts need 139 more to win off 11 overs. Jos Buttler 37, Phil Salt 38.
Lancashire 54-1, 5 overs
Yorkshire may have a massive total on the board, but they need to break the Buttler and Salt partnership. Buttler 16, Salt 17.
Lancashire 31-1, 2.3 overs
Keaton Jennings caught Dom Bess bowled Will Sutherland, 19.
Excellent catch back-peddling from mid-on.
Key passage ahead as Jos Buttler comes to the crease.
Yorkshire defending 237
Dan Moriarty has the new ball. Phil Salt and Keaton Jennings opening for Lancashire.
Yorkshire 236-6, 20 overs
Yorkshire lose Abdullah Shafique, Will Sutherland and James Wharton caught in Chris Green’s last over, with Will Luxton finishing 90 not out to supplement Jonny Bairstow’s 116. There were four wickets in that last over, including a run out.
The White Rose post the highest ever total in Roses Blast cricket. Remarkably, Green only conceded three runs in that last over.
Lancashire, for whom Green struck four times, have got one heck of a task on their hands.
Yorkshire 190-2, 15.1 overs
Jonny Bairstow caught Phil Salt bowled Chris Green, 116.
A career best innings comes to an end.
Caught at deep mid-wicket, ending a 167 stand with Will Luxton, 69. That partnership is Yorkshire’s highest ever for any wicket in the Blast.
Abdullah Shafique in now.
Bairstow 100
Jonny Bairstow reaches his ton off 49 balls. Outstanding knock.
Yorkshire are now 182-1 in the 15th over. Will Luxton has 69.
Luxton 50
Will Luxton has reached his fifty off 23 balls. Fabulous innings. Yorkshire are 130-1 in the 12th over.
Picture by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images.
Luxton joining in the fun
Will Luxton is joining in the fun. He has just taken Tom Hartley for 6,6,4 and has 37 out of 115-1 after 10 overs.
Bairstow 50
What a knock this is. Jonny Bairstow has reached a superb fifty off 24 balls and has taken Yorkshire to 72-1 in the sixth.
This is his first fifty in Roses Blast cricket.
Picture by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images.
Yorkshire going nicely
Jonny Bairstow and Will Luxton have both hit sixes, with Bairstow successfully taking on Sir James Anderson twice. He has 28 of 46-1 after four overs.
Yorkshire 23-1, 2.2 overs
Dawid Malan caught behind Jos Buttler bowled Luke Wood, 1.
Caught behind having been squared up by the left-arm quick.
Will Luxton in now.
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Yorkshire 9-0 after one over
Jonny Bairstow picked up the only boundary so far, through point off Luke Wood.
Sir James Anderson sharing the new ball.
Underway at EOT!
Luke Wood has the new ball, with Jonny Bairstow on strike.
Lancashire's team...
Keaton Jennings c, Phil Salt, Jos Buttler w, Ashton Turner, Luke Wells, Michael Jones, Chris Green, Jack Blatherwick, Tom Hartley, Luke Wood, Sir James Anderson.
Yorkshire win and bat
Yorkshire: Dawid Malan c, Jonny Bairstow w, Will Luxton, James Wharton, Abdullah Shafique, Will Sutherland, Dom Bess, Jordan Thompson, Jafer Chohan, Matt Milnes, Dan Moriarty.
Two changes from Chesterfield; Revis and O’Rourke out, Shafique and Moriarty in.
Toss about to take place
Captains Dawid Malan and Keaton Jennings are getting themselves ready for the toss.
Joe Root breaking records
Joe Root has just taken a one-handed stunner of a catch at first slip to help Ben Stokes remove Karun Nair. That was his 211th catch in Test Cricket. No one has taken more in the history of the game.
India are 74-2 replying to England’s first-innings 387.
“If he gets in, he will be really good to watch"
Liam Holgate is a performance analyst at Yorkshire. Earlier this summer, he went to the Pakistan Super League to work for Islamabad United. His side came up against new White Rose signing Abdullah Shafique, who won that title with Lahore Qalandars.
Liam has given Yorkshire fans an idea of what they can expect from Shafique over the next four games.
“He’s one who will take the game on. Pakistan, at the moment, are going through a resurgence where the likes of Babar and Rizwan have been told they have to increase their strike-rates and change their game. And that’s a move which will play right into Abdullah’s hands.
“He comes out, usually at three, and tries to take the game down.
“When he played against us at Islamabad United, he got two fifties.
“One of those games, in particular, he was lethal against us.
“One of his biggest strengths is that he will find width from anywhere.
“You could go into a meeting and say, ‘No width’. But you’d bowl balls that weren’t width and he’d turn them into width.
“He’s sensational at getting what he wants from the crease and making it happen.
“As you find, with most players from Pakistan, he’s very dangerous against spin.
“He has two games at Headingley, and what do you do as a bowler because it’s short straight and rapid square? No matter where you bowl, you are under pressure.
“If he gets in, he will be really good to watch.
“He’s a great fielder as well.
“He’s just a very good all-round cricketer.”
Picture by William West/Getty Images.
Good afternoon...
From Emirates Old Trafford, where it’s a glorious afternoon ahead of this evening’s blockbuster clash in front of the Sky Sports cameras.
Yorkshire are in must win territory if they are to maintain their slim hopes of quarter-final qualification. Having only won three games from 10 so far, they will have to win their remaining four games and hope it’s enough for a top-four finish.
They face a Lancashire side who have won seven from 10 games and sit second in the North Group just behind Durham, who have a superior net run-rate.
Both sides come into this one on the back of defeats. Yorkshire were beaten by Derbyshire at Chesterfield on Sunday, while Lancashire were beaten by the Bears at Edgbaston on Wednesday.
Yorkshire will hand a Blast debut to Pakistan international Abdullah Shafique, who takes on overseas duties from Will O’Rourke, who has departed for international duty with New Zealand.
More about Shafique in a short while.
But you can read our preview for this game with James Wharton and Matt Milnes via the post above.
The last two games between these two counties here at Emirates Old Trafford have been washed out, meaning Yorkshire hold the whip-hand in the recent Roses battles having won in each of the last two seasons at Headingley.
With this game being televised tonight, there will be no live stream available.
