Live: Sussex Sharks v Yorkshire Men, Metro Bank One-Day Cup
Yorkshire are aiming to make it back-to-back wins in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup. After beating Glamorgan on Friday, they face Sussex Sharks at Hove today. Follow this page for live updates throughout the day.
YORKSHIRE WIN!!!
Kuldeep Yadav gets Sean Hunt caught at long-off by Dom Bess, and Sussex are all out for 140.
Will Luxton with 117 and Ben Coad 5-12 from seven overs.
That’s a second win in three Group B games, and Yorkshire win by 184 runs on DLS. Big boost to net run-rate as well.
Ben Coad five-fer!
Jack Carson skews to cover, and Coad has his first five-wicket haul in List A cricket. Yorkshire nearly there.
Sussex 134-9 in the 27th over. Carson falls for 49 off 46 balls.
Kuldeep strikes
Toby Munt is bowled trying to cut against Kuldeep Yadav, with middle and leg stump out of the ground.
And just before that wicket fell, we had a little one come to say hello at the press box window.
Lyth again
Two in the over for Adam Lyth as Freddie Price chips a return catch.
Sussex 93-7 in the 20th over.
Sussex 93-6, 20th over
And they haven’t got it.
Adam Lyth has struck with his second ball, getting Hudson-Prentice caught at long-on running around in front of the sight-screen by Ben Cliff.
Hudson-Prentice goes for 50 off 30 balls, and that might be that.
Super stuff from Yorkshire.
Hudson-Prentice 50
Sussex all-rounder Fynn Hudson-Prentice has reached a 29-ball fifty, taking his side to 92-5 after 19 overs.
They’re going to need much more from him, though.
Sussex 85-5 after 18.1 overs
Fynn Hudson-Prentice has 47 and Jack Carson has 17.
A counter-attack from the Sussex pair as they try to chase 325 in 48 overs.
Sussex 21-4 after 10 overs
Four wickets for Ben Coad, who has Dan Ibrahim caught behind pushing forwards.
Coad’s current figures, 4-7.
Hang on, it’s 21-5 in the 11th.
Ben Cliff has struck with his first ball for the second successive game, getting Jack Leaning caught at mid-wicket by Sam Whiteman.
Picture by Eva Gilbert/Sussex Cricket.
Sussex 20-3 in the 9th over
Jack Leaning and Dan Ibrahim are at the crease trying to rebuild. But they don’t have much time if that 325 is going to be overhauled.
Ben Coad! (Again)
Tom Price has been trapped lbw by Ben Coad, and Sussex are 7-3 in the fourth over.
It looked a bit high on first viewing, but the appeal goes Yorkshire’s way.
It gives you an idea of how much trouble Sussex are in that the DLS par score is currently 110.
Ben Coad! (Again)
George Thomas has gone, with Ben Coad uprooting his middle stump.
Sussex are 6-2 in the fourth over chasing 325 in 48 overs.
Ben Coad!
Coad has got Charlie Tear caught behind, and Sussex are 5-1.
Sussex 4-0 after one ball
Sussex chasing 325 in 48 overs, and Charlie Tear has hit the first ball from George Hill for four through square-leg.
George Thomas is the other opening batter.
Yorkshire 325-7, 48 overs
Yorkshire very much with the advantage at the halfway point in this match.
Will Luxton with a brilliant 117, Sam Whiteman 74 and George Hill 40 not out. Kuldeep Yadav also added a useful 22 at the end.
Sussex will be chasing a revised 325 target from 48 overs.
One over remains, Yorkshire 310-7
George Hill has played very nicely for 39 and Kuldeep Yadav has 9.
Bess goes in search for quick runs
Dom Bess has been caught behind trying to ramp or scoop Sean Hunt. Yorkshire 283-7 in the 45th over.
Kuldeep Yadav in now alongside George Hill.
Hill reverses for six
George Hill has just reverse ramped a full toss from Toby Munt for six over third-man to move to 19, but Fin Bean has been caught at deep point at the start of the next over off Freddie Price, 15.
Yorkshire 278-6 in the 44th over.
Dom Bess in now.
Luxton falls for a superb 117
Yorkshire 248-5, 39th over.
Will Luxton has miscued Toby Munt’s left-arm seam to Tom Price running around from cover towards long-0ff.
George Hill and Fin Bean at the crease now.
Yorkshire 235-4, 37th over
Sam Whiteman caught at cover brilliantly by a diving Fynn Hudson-Prentice for 74 off Toby Munt.
Fin Bean in alongside centurion Will Luxton.
That ended a partnership of 160 for the fourth wicket.
Whiteman and Luxton attack
Since reaching his fifty, Sam Whiteman has hit two sixes. Will Luxton has just added another, pulling Dan Ibrahim over mid-wicket. And it has dislodged a tile on a roof of a nearby flat.
Yorkshire 224-3 after 35 overs.
Luxton has 108 and Sam Whiteman 67.
HUNDRED!!! Luxton
Will Luxton has reached a superb 99-ball century, helping Yorkshire to 201-3 after 33 overs.
A great platform for acceleration now as Luxton and Sam Whiteman (52) have shared 126. We have 15 overs remaining in the innings.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com.
Whiteman 50
Sam Whiteman has reached a fine fifty, off 60 balls.
Yorkshire 197-3 in the 32nd over.
Will Luxton has 98.
Luxton hoists back-to-back sixes
Will Luxton has taken Ollie Kirtley down over long-off and then long-on. Now he’s drilled a boundary wide of mid-off. And another, flashed through third-man.
He has 97 out of 192-3 in the 31st over. The partnership with Sam Whiteman, 46, is 117.
Dom Bess and Jack Carson at the toss this morning.
Picture by Eva Gilbert/Sussex Cricket.
Whiteman playing nicely
While Will Luxton has led the way with his unbeaten 55, Sam Whiteman has platted very nicely as well for 36 off 39 balls.
These two have shared 65 unbroken in 140-3 in the 23rd over.
Luxton 50
Will Luxton has played very nicely indeed for 50 off as many balls, with Yorkshire 119-3 after 18 overs.
He offered a sharp caught and bowled opportunity to the seamer Freddie Price on 29 but has looked in good order.
Yorkshire 102-3 after 16 overs
Sam Whiteman has just worked the seam of Ollie Kirtley – son of James – behind square for four to take Yorkshire into three figures.
Whiteman has 17 and Will Luxton 36.
Yorkshire going along at a decent rate, despite the loss of three wickets.
Yorkshire 75-3, 11th over
James Wharton run out, 0.
Will Luxton pushes towards backward point, where Jack Leaning picks up and throws the striker’s stumps down with Wharton short of his ground.
Sam Whiteman in now alongside Will Luxton, 29.
Through 10 overs, Yorkshire 71-2
Decent pace and carry in this pitch.
Will Luxton has 25 and James Wharton yet to get off the mark.
Yorkshire 52-2, 6 overs
Will Bennison caught Tom Price bowled Sean Hunt, 9.
Skewed drive to backward point and well caught going his left by Price.
James Wharton in now alongside Will Luxton, who has 13.
Yorkshire 45-1, 5th over
Boundaries continue to come thick and fast.
Will Luxton has just taken two more off Sean Hunt in the fourth over and has nine.
11.30am restart
The game has been reduced to 48 overs per side.
Covers coming off
We’re not expecting any more rain today, and we should be back underway shortly.
RAIN: Yorkshire 25-1, 2nd over
The players scurry back to the dressing room.
Yorkshire 24-1, 1.2 overs
What a strange old start to this game.
Adam Lyth, after three fours in the opening over and a pulled six, has pulled Sean Hunt down deep square-leg’s throat, falling for 21.
Lyth throws his head back in frustration.
Will Bennison in now.
Yorkshire 17-0, one over
Adam Lyth hit three boundaries in the first over from Toby Munt.
Now he faces up to Sean Hunt, another left-armer.
And he’s pulled the first ball of the second over for six.
Yorkshire 23-0 after seven balls.
Luxton and Lyth opening again
Adam Lyth will face left-arm seamer Toby Munt to get us going.
Sun's out
And it’s a lovely morning all of a sudden.
Sussex win toss and elect to bowl first
Yorkshire: Adam Lyth, Will Luxton, Will Bennison, Sam Whiteman, James Wharton, Fin Bean w, George Hill, Dom Bess c, Kuldeep Yadav, Ben Coad, Ben Cliff.
Covers being removed
The ground-staff are removing the covers, with the rain having stopped.
We should be ok for an 11am start.
It’s very muggy here at the County Ground.
Good morning...
From Hove, where it’s a damp start to the day ahead of our clash with Sussex Sharks, starting at 11am.
We’ve been greeted by light rain. It would be a surprise if it caused us too much of an issue, however.
Yorkshire head into this fixture on the back of a defeat and a win, the latter coming against Glamorgan at Neath on Friday. Sussex, meanwhile, have suffered back-to-back defeats. On Friday, they were beaten under lights by Durham up at Chester-le-Street.
A top-three finish at least in Group B is the aim for Anthony McGrath, Dom Bess and co, and a win today would leave them encouragingly placed ahead of back-to-back home games against Worcestershire on Wednesday and Durham on Friday. Both of those games are at York, with the defending champions first up.
We have previewed this game with Fin Bean and Ben Cliff, including their thoughts on how Kuldeep Yadav has settled in. The Indian left-arm wrist spinner debuted at Neath on Friday with two wickets and then 12 late on in the pursuit of 187.
That preview is linked below, while a live stream will be embedded at the top of the page before we get going.
Enjoy the day.