Live: Yorkshire Men v Lancashire Lightning, Vitality Blast
Yorkshire are bidding for the Roses Blast double having beaten Lancashire away last week. Tonight, Headingley will be rocking. Follow this blog for live updates throughout the evening.
Yorkshire lose
Yorkshire 153 all out, losing by 21. Jack Blatherwick removes Jafer Chohan.
Yorkshire 151-9, 18.1 overs
Matt Milnes lbw Chris Green and Will Sutherland caught deep cover off Tom Aspinwall.
Yorkshire struggling now.
Yorkshire seven down now
Chris Green has just removed Jordan Thompson caught and bowled. Yorkshire 137-7 after 16.
Matt Milnes and Will Sutherland 24 in now.
Yorkshire 132-6, 14.4 overs
Abdullah Shafique caught Ashton Turner bowled Sir James Anderson, 54.
Caught pulling at deep square-leg.
We need 43 more to win. Jordan Thompson in alongside Will Sutherland 21.
Shafique 50
Maiden Yorkshire fifty, off 29 balls, for Abdullah Shafique.
Superb knock, and it’s turning the game around.
Shafique and Sutherland unite
Our two overseas players are turning this game around. They have taken the score to 120-5 after 13.
Shafique has 47 and Sutherland 16. We need 55 more to win.
Yorkshire 97-5, 10.4 overs
Dom Bess caught behind Jos Buttler bowled Luke Wood, 13.
Falls trying to cut a ball which was too close to him.
Overseas duo Will Sutherland and Abdullah Shafique 40 in now.
Halfway in the Yorkshire chase
Yorkshire, chasing 175, are 91-4.
Abdullah Shafique has 35 and Dom Bess 12.
The White Rose need 84 more.
Yorkshire 66-4, 7.5 overs
James Wharton bowled Chris Green, 11.
Bowled on the reverse sweep, and Yorkshire have significant work to do now chasing 175.
Dom Bess in alongside Abdullah Shafique, who has 22.
Yorkshire 24-2, 2.5 overs
Will Luxton caught Chris Green bowled Sir James Anderson, 9.
Caught at deep mid-wicket.
Yorkshire chasing 175, with Abdullah Shafique in now.
Yorkshire 13-1, 1.2 overs
Jonny Bairstow bowled Luke Wood, 5.
There was a send-off to boot from the England left-arm quick.
Will Luxton in now alongside Dawid Malan, who has 8.
175-target.
Yorkshire 4-0 in the first
Our chase of 175 is up and running. Jonny Bairstow has just taken the first boundary off Sir James Anderson.
Lancashire 174 all out, 19.5 overs
A brilliant Will Sutherland run out throwing to striker’s end from long-on removes Jos Buttler for 77 before Jordan Thompson bowls Sir James Anderson.
That’s a really good effort from Yorkshire.
Sutherland and Milnes strike
Two wickets in the last couple of overs, with Chris Green and Jack Blatherwick falling.
Lancashire 172-7 after 19 overs. Jos Buttler has 75.
Three overs left...
Lancashire are 154-5, with Jos Buttler 64 and Chris Green 15.
Lancashire 132-5, 15 overs
Matty Hurst caught Dom Bess bowled Matt Milnes, 11.
Miscued to mid-on running around.
Jos Buttler may be there on 57, but Lancashire have struggled to break free.
Buttler 50
Jos Buttler reaches his fifty off 26 balls, with Lancashire 121-4 after 13 overs.
Lancashire 110-4, 11.1 overs
Luke Wells caught Abdullah Shafique bowled Jordan Thompson, 9.
Leading edge out to deep mid-wicket running in.
Matty Hurst in alongside Jos Buttler, who has 47.
Lancashire 102-3, 11th over
Jos Buttler has 39 and has topped 13,000 career Blast runs, only the second Englishman to achieve that feat and the seventh in the world.
Lancashire 65-2, 7.1 overs
Phil Salt caught Will Luxton bowled Jafer Chohan, 42.
Slog swept high to deep backward square-leg.
Chohan strikes with his first ball.
Ashton Turner in now alongside Jos Buttler, who has 14.
Lancashire 65-1, 7 overs
Phil Salt 42 and Jos Buttler has 14.
Lancashire 43-1, 5 overs
Yorkshire have kept Lancashire in check so far. Phil Salt 25 and Jos Buttler 9.
Lancashire 23-1, 3 overs
Keaton Jennings caught Abdullah Shafique bowled Dan Moriarty, 7.
Hoisted out to deep mid-wicket.
Jos Buttler in now for the Red Rose, alongside Salt, who has 16.
Lancashire 10-0 after one over
Phil Salt has taken two boundaries and a two off the first over from Matt Milnes.
Dom Bess shares the new ball.
We’re actually playing through rain in the early stages of this fixture.
Up and running at Headingley...
Matt Milnes has the new ball, with Phil Salt on strike. Keaton Jennings is Lancashire’s other opener.
And we have a Yorkshire and a Lancashire umpire, in James Middlebrook and Steve O’Shaughnessy.
Lancashire win toss and bat
Yorkshire: Jonny Bairstow w, Dawid Malan c, Will Luxton, James Wharton, Abdullah Shafique, Will Sutherland, Jordan Thompson, Dom Bess, Matt Milnes, Jafer Chohan, Dan Moriarty.
Yorkshire unchanged from the defeat to Derbyshire here on Sunday.
Can Tommo reach a milestone?
Jordan Thompson has two T20 appearances remaining before he departs for Warwickshire, and he is close to a significant Yorkshire milestone in this format.
He has scored 1,008 runs and taken 95 wickets for Yorkshire in T20 cricket, and only one man has achieved the 1,000 runs and 100-wicket double. That was Tim Bresnan.
It would be some way for Jordan to sign off if he can get five more wickets over the next two nights – tonight and at Leicestershire tomorrow.
Good afternoon...
From Headingley, where it’s overcast ahead of the Roses game, starting at 6.30pm.
A win will secure Lancashire a quarter-final berth, a win will give Yorkshire the Roses Blast double after last week’s stunning success at Emirates Old Trafford when Jonny Bairstow scored a scintillating 116 not out added to Will Luxton’s 90.
Yorkshire are bidding for their fifth win of the campaign.
The Sky Sports cameras are here once again, so there will be no live stream this evening.
You can read our preview via the embedded X post above, with Anthony McGrath and Dom Bess.
Enjoy the night.
