Picture by Jan Kruger/Getty Images. Logan van Beek had an excellent night in a losing cause.
Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire, Vitality Blast North Group, Friday July 10, 2026, 7pm, Emirates Old Trafford
Toss: Lancashire won it and elected to bat
Teams: – Lancashire: Keaton Jennings c, Michael Jones, Liam Livingstone, Matty Hurst w, Shadab Khan, Ben McDermott, Joe Moores, Jack Blatherwick, Tom Hartley, Mitch Stanley, Sir James Anderson.
Yorkshire: Adam Lyth, Jonny Bairstow c/w, Will Luxton, Joe Root, Moeen Ali, Matthew Revis, AJ Tye, Hassan Ali, Logan van Beek, Jafer Chohan, Dan Moriarty.
Match Summary: Yorkshire were made to wait to seal quarter-final qualification as Lancashire secured a 22-run Roses win which boosted their own hopes.
Liam Livingstone clattered 60 off 39 balls with four sixes and as many fours in Lightning’s 216-6. Logan van Beek struck three times for Yorkshire.
Yorkshire then crumbled to 47-5 inside seven overs of their chase, with Sir James Anderson even getting Joe Root for four along the way. The White Rose then impressively careered to 194-8, a significant boost to their net run-rate.
Picture by Jan Kruger/Getty Images. Dan Moriarty struck early to remove Keaton Jennings.
Matthew Revis top-scored with 52 off 38 balls, while van Beek added 40.
Yorkshire remain second in the North Group despite a fourth defeat in 11 games and could still qualify for the quarter-finals without getting another point. That wouldn’t be desirable, clearly, and they will be desperate to beat group winners Nottinghamshire Outlaws at Headingley on Sunday afternoon.
Lancashire can still mathematically replace them in second. But, even with this win, that’s unlikely given Yorkshire’s superior net run-rate.
Report: Dan Moriarty conceded only one and had Keaton Jennings caught at point in the second over, but Lancashire raced to 70-1 after six thanks to Ben McDermott and Liam Livingstone, who hit his fourth fifty of the competition.
McDermott fell caught at deep square-leg off Jafer Chohan for 46 – 89-2 in the ninth – before Livingstone reached a 28-ball fifty in the next over.
Matty Hurst hit Chohan for back-to-back sixes, but he and Livingstone both fell to Dutch seamer Logan van Beek in the 13th, leaving Lancashire at 129-4.
Picture by Jan Kruger/Getty Images. Yorkshire’s and Lancashire’s players take to the field at Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground this evening.
Livingstone was brilliantly caught behind by Jonny Bairstow trying to uppercut.
Overseas Van Beek was in for his first game of the campaign because of a hand injury for Faheem Ashraf.
Shadab Khan with a particularly powerful cameo of 38 off 20 balls then helped Lancashire finish strongly. He hit two leg-side sixes off his fellow Pakistani Hassan Ali.
Bairstow didn’t open the batting for the White Rose, but his replacement Will Luxton crashed Sir James Anderson for six over long-on as 13 came from the first over of the chase. However, he didn’t last long, bowled attacking at Stanley in the second.
Mitch Stanley also had Adam Lyth caught behind with a short ball before Anderson got Root. Stanley then had Bairstow caught at cover off a miscue before Moeen Ali was caught one-handed above his head at midwicket by Jennings off Shadab’s leg-spin.
At 47-5 after 6.1 overs, Yorkshire were all but sunk as the Lightning raced towards avenging defeat at Headingley earlier in the competition.
Picture by Jan Kruger/Getty Images. Joe Root played for Yorkshire this evening ahead of England’s ODI series against India next week.
Matthew Revis and van Beek settled things down for Yorkshire, importantly protecting their net run-rate, which could come into play on Sunday.
Van Beek played nicely for 40 to add to his earlier three wickets before slicing a catch off Jack Blatherwick to third, where a diving Joe Moores held on brilliantly.
Revis surpassed him for 52 off 38, while AJ Tye hit three sixes off one Blatherwick over and added 29 not out off 14. But they were consolatory efforts.
Stanley, defending 37 off the last over, struck again to get Hassan caught in the deep.
Turning Point: The first 37 balls of Yorkshire’s chase, which saw them slump to 47-5. Mitch Stanley struck three times to all but ice the game for Lancashire.
Magic Moment: Sorry, Lythy, but it amused everyone in the Yorkshire camp when he was struck flush on the helmet badge by a Sir James Anderson bouncer in the third over and left him with a mark flush on his forehead. Someone in the press box said that it made him look like the baddy from Home Alone!
Picture by Jan Kruger/Getty Images. Sir James Anderson celebrates the dismissal of Joe Root.
Stat of the Match: Yorkshire’s record chase remains the Durham game at Headingley in June 2022 when they chased down 208 to win by six wickets.
What they said – Yorkshire all-rounder Moeen Ali said: “They played well and we weren’t quite on it, especially in the field. I thought it was our probably worst performance in the field. It can happen, but it hasn’t happened all year.
“They played well, we didn’t play so well, but we still – in the end – gave it a go and probably saved our run-rate. That’s crucial in the end.
“It was probably a poor game from our point. But, in a way, it’s nice to get out of the way and move forwards.
“We just probably conceded more runs in the end. It was probably a 180 sort of wicket. We did really well from being in the position we were, five down for nothing.”
What’s next: Yorkshire round off their group campaign on Sunday afternoon, at 3.30pm, with a meeting of the top two teams in the group. They face Nottinghamshire Outlaws, the team they beat on the opening night.
