Picture by Bruce Rollinson/SWPix.com. Will Bennison was superb for a career best 91 at York today.
Superb centuries from South African overseas wicketkeeper-batter Kyle Verreynne and unbeaten Jack Haynes left Yorkshire nursing Metro Bank One-Day Cup quarter-final heartbreak at York today, with Nottinghamshire recovering from 1-3 chasing 274 to win by three wickets.
The Outlaws won with eight balls to spare to book a semi-final against Leicestershire Foxes at Grace Road on Sunday.
Yorkshire were red hot favourites to win this Clifton Park quarter, with George Hill and then Ben Coad twice in as many balls striking to put the skids under the visitors’ top order. Coad was superb for 5-52 from 10 overs.
However, after Will Bennison’s excellent first-team best of 91 in Yorkshire’s 273-9, wicketkeeper-batter Verreynne usurped him by converting his sixth fifty of the campaign into a first century. He shared a fifth-wicket 154 from 55-4.
Verreynne posted 105 off 123 balls and was calm and composed, while Haynes with 116 not out off 99 balls became increasingly attacking after the score had fallen to 213-7 in the 43rd over and with the prospect of injured Lyndon James not being able to bat.
Dillon Pennington had a good day. He claimed four wickets and hit 22 not out, including the winning runs.
With Yorkshire’s campaign coming to a close, Fin Bean also deserves a mention for 20 dismissals behind the stumps. That’s the most for a wicketkeeper in the competition. Today, he pouched four caught behinds – the first four wickets in the innings.
A key moment came when George Hill failed to gather the ball at the non-striker’s stumps late on when Haynes was short of his ground.
Bennison was excellent in underpinning a total which could have been more but was limited in no small part by Pennington’s pacy 4-49. Coad then struck twice in two balls in his second over – the third of the innings – as Yorkshire reduced the Outlaws’ chase to 1-3.
Picture by Bruce Rollinson/SWPix.com. Ben Coad celebrates taking the wicket of Olly Stone as Yorkshire tightened the game up late on.
Adam Lyth whipped and pulled early sixes off Brett Hutton as inserted Yorkshire raced to 38-0 in the sixth over having been inserted. But, unfortunately, both he and opening partner Will Luxton fell caught behind off Pennington.
Bennison also pulled a six, off the pace of Olly Stone, and both he and James Wharton advanced at a good tempo without taking too many risks in sharing a third-wicket 116 on a hybrid pitch which played pretty well.
By the time Bennison reached his fifty off 69 balls, Yorkshire were 134-2 after 25 overs, though Wharton fell caught behind sweeping at Farhan Ahmed’s off-spin for 44 not long after – 159-3 in the 30th over.
Bennison had made his way into the nineties by the time he departed, miscuing a pull at Pennington to mid-on with score on 194 in the 30th. And when Hill miscued a drive at Stone low down to cover, it was 207-5 after 39.
Bennison had been particularly strong off the back foot through the off-side, but he and Hill were the first two of six wickets to fall inside the last 13 overs of the innings as Yorkshire lost momentum.
Sam Whiteman was bowled scooping at Pennington for 39 before Dom Bess was bowled by Stone and Coad run out trying to scramble a third off the last ball of the innings.
Midway through the Yorkshire innings, James left the field nursing his side having only bowled 4.4 overs, and Jack White had only bowled one ball of the defence when he had to depart with a hand injury suffered trying to take what would have been a stunner of a return catch following a fierce Ben Martindale drive.
Not long after White had got back to the dressing room to attend to a split webbing, though, the complexion of this game had changed remarkably as Hill and Coad wrecked the visiting top order.
Hill had Martindale caught behind before Coad removed Freddie McCann and Haseeb Hameed the same way with successive deliveries in the third over.
Picture by Bruce Rollinson/SWPix.com. Jack Haynes and Dillon Pennington got Nottinghamshire over the line today.
At 1-3, Yorkshire all of a sudden had this game by the throat.
Munsey and Verreynne took the sting out of the situation somewhat, but they needed more than a 52 partnership.
White had returned to the field and got Munsey caught behind in the 13th over.
Verreynne quietly kept Nottinghamshire hopes alive, reaching his latest fifty off 65 balls. At that stage, in the searching Minster City sunshine, the visitors were 97-4 in the 23rd over, and he had Haynes for company.
Verreynne reached his fifty in 65 balls and later his century off 113. Sandwiched in between, Haynes reached his fifty off 52.
By the time Nottinghamshire passed 200 in the 39th over, they had the definite advantage even though injured James wasn’t expected to bat unless absolutely necessary.
Yorkshire badly needed a wicket and actually found three as the Outlaws slipped to 213-7, needing 61 more in a little more than seven overs.
Verreynne miscued to mid-off against Coad, who removed Ahmed and Stone in his next over.
But, with James out of action, Haynes led the stand of 64 unbroken with Pennington, both playing aggressively. Haynes, in his first game since mid-July following a quad injury, reached his century in 93 balls, leaving Yorkshire to rue another knockout near miss after the Somerset Vitality Blast defeat last month.
