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Here is all of the information ahead of your visit to watch Yorkshire Vikings vs Lancashire Lightning at Headingley on Thursday.

The Northern Diamonds took a stranglehold on a place at the Charlotte Edwards Cup Finals Day next month with a fourth successive win, this time over Sunrisers by 35 runs. Leah Dobson’s 47 set things up in 172-7 before Katie Levick’s brilliant 5-19 finished things off.

Alex Lees posted an excellent career best 90 off 53 balls against his home county as Durham racked up an imposing 217-3 and defended it comfortably at Headingley, consigning Yorkshire to a third straight Vitality Blast defeat at the start of the North Group.

Watch the best of the action from the T20 double header at Headingley, with Yorkshire Vikings taking on Durham at 11:30am before Northern Diamonds take on Sunrisers, starting at 3:30pm.

Lauren Winfield-Hill believes supporters attending Headingley for tomorrow’s T20 double header could be in for a treat as the Northern Diamonds bid to put one foot in Finals Day of the Charlotte Edwards Cup.

David Wiese is hoping a run of five Vitality Blast games in the next 10 days will be good for Yorkshire as the county bid to kick-start their summer.

Worcestershire seamer Adam Finch hit three sixes off the first five balls off Matthew Fisher in the last over as the Rapids chased down 176 and 19 off the last over to win by two wickets with one ball to spare.

The Northern Diamonds took a significant step towards next month’s Charlotte Edwards Cup Finals Day as Lizzie Scott hit the last ball of the match for four when three were needed to beat South East Stars by two wickets at the Oval.

Tom Cant has been appointed as the new permanent senior regional talent manger for the Northern Diamonds, a role he has held on an interim basis since the turn of the year.

Yorkshire continued their 100% start to the campaign by recording their fifth straight win with a comprehensive victory against Lancashire at Barnsley in front of a large crowd.

David Wiese has arrived at Headingley ahead of his debut in tomorrow’s Vitality Blast clash with Worcestershire Rapids at New Road (5.30pm), and it is clear the overseas all-rounder’s influence will be key to Yorkshire’s hopes of T20 success this summer.