Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Adam Lyth en-route to 97 against Gloucestershire today, the second highest score of his T20 career.
Yorkshire v Gloucestershire
Vitality Blast, Men
Sunday 31 May, 2026, 2.30pm
Headingley
Toss: Gloucestershire won it and elected to bat first
Teams: Yorkshire – Jonny Bairstow c/w, Adam Lyth, Will Luxton, James Wharton, Moeen Ali, Matthew Revis, Faheem Ashraf, Dom Bess, AJ Tye, Hassan Ali, Jafer Chohan.
Gloucestershire – Miles Hammond, D’Arcy Short, Ollie Price, Ben Charlesworth, Jack Taylor c, James Bracey w, Joe Phillips, Kamran Dhariwal, Duan Jansen, Marchant de Lange, Matt Taylor.
Match summary: Yorkshire’s three-game winning streak came to an end, despite a superb 97 off 56 balls from Adam Lyth in a forlorn chase of 218 against Gloucestershire at Headingley.
The Bristol county – winners by 56 runs – were inspired by the all-round efforts of Australian D’Arcy Short, who opened with 82 off 50 balls in 217-6 before taking four for 30 with his left-arm wrist spin.
Yorkshire, for whom Hassan Ali claimed three wickets, were bowled out for 161 inside 18 overs. South African left-arm pacer Duan Jansen also took three wickets.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Hassan Ali stood out with the ball for the White Rose today.
Report: Short was the one who got the ball rolling for Gloucestershire, but others helped out initially, which was something that Yorkshire missed when they chased.
Miles Hammond and T20 debutant Joe Phillips hit early leg-side sixes as Gloucestershire – having elected to bat and minus ex-Yorkshire captain Dawid Malan through a calf tear – reached the 10-over mark at 86-1.
Phillips and Short were en-route to a second-wicket partnership of 95.
On a true pitch, Short crashed two more leg-side sixes as 20 came off Dom Bess’s off-spin in the 11th, the left-hander reaching his first fifty of the campaign off 35 balls in the process.
Phillips was heading in the same direction when he was caught behind scooping against AJ Tye’s seam, leaving the score at 119-2 in the 13th over.
Short kicked on and also shared 46 with captain Jack Taylor, who played some eye-catching shots in a 10-ball 20.
But when both holed out to Hassan Ali’s impressive seam in the 16th – 166-4 – Yorkshire were able to keep things in check, with the same man striking again late on.
Yorkshire suffered a significant blow inside two overs of their chase when Jonny Bairstow hoisted Ollie Price’s off-spin to long-on for only four.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. D’Arcy Short had one heck of a day out against Yorkshire today.
Will Luxton attacked in Price’s next over but miscued to mid-off for only 20 before towering South African left-arm pacer Duan Jansen’s first ball was a peach and bowled James Wharton, with the White Rose 49-3 in the sixth.
Lyth took back-to-back leg-side sixes off Jansen later in the over and another off Short’s spin in the next, reaching his fifty in 26 balls as Yorkshire moved to 99-3 at halfway.
The White Rose weren’t in too bad a position at that stage.
However, Short’s influence on this game increased when he got Moeen Ali caught at deep mid-wicket and Matthew Revis caught and bowled with successive deliveries in the next.
And when he bowled Faheem Ashraf in the 13th, the White Rose were in bother at 115-6.
Short later forced Dom Bess to play on, and not even Lyth could save Yorkshire, who were finished off by two more Jansen wickets.
Lyth was last to go to Marchant de Lange, caught at long-on.
Magic moment: Two wickets in the space of three balls in the 16th over for the excellent Hassan Ali, with D’Arcy Short caught at deep square-leg and Jack Taylor caught at cover. That left Gloucestershire 166-4.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. AJ Tye was playing against his former county.
Turning point: Even with 217-6 on the board, Yorkshire were by no means out of it at halfway given the high-scoring history of this venue. But the loss of captain Jonny Bairstow, Will Luxton and James Wharton inside the powerplay – 65-3 – left the hosts with a task too tall.
Stat of the the match: Coming into this game, Yorkshire had won their first three matches in a T20 season for the first time ever. Unfortunately, they were unable to make it four in a row.
What they said – Yorkshire’s opener Adam Lyth: “I think we were chasing 20 too many, really.
“It was a good wicket and a decent effort, but we just didn’t quite get another partnership in there and just kept losing wickets.
“I did my best to try and get us as close as I could, but it just wasn’t to be.
“To be fair, Duan Jansen bowled really well. His slower ball was a good weapon today.
“We just didn’t quite get it right, I think, with both skills. But that happens in T20. On to the next one, I guess.”
What’s next: Yorkshire have a few days’ break before the big one on Friday evening, Lancashire Lightning at Headingley (7pm) start. Tickets remain available.
