Picture by Jas Ghata-Aura. Jack White claimed a career best 4-33 in his first T20 game for Yorkshire, including two wickets in the opening over of the defence.
Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Yorkshire
Vitality Blast, North Group
Wednesday June 11, 2025, 6.30pm
Trent Bridge
Toss: Yorkshire won it and elected to bat
Teams – Nottinghamshire: Joe Clarke c, Lyndon James, Jack Haynes, Freddie McCann, Matt Montgomery, Tom Moores w, Daniel Sams, Calvin Harrison, Liam Patterson-White, Conor McKerr, Dillon Pennington.
Yorkshire: Dawid Malan c, Will Luxton, Adam Lyth, James Wharton, Matthew Revis, Will Sutherland, Dom Bess, Harry Duke w, Jafer Chohan, Will O’Rourke, Jack White.
Match Summary: Yorkshire won their second successive Blast game as they defended a 176-target to win a pulsating game by nine runs.
The pendulum swing this way and that as Yorkshire posted 175-8 and Notts finished on 166-9, failing to get 17 off the last over in front of just over 9,000 fans.
Dawid Malan top-scored with a fine 58 off 28 balls before new-ball seamer Jack White was the star with the ball, claiming a career best 4-33 on his T20 debut for the county.
Report: Yorkshire set off like a train thanks to Dawid Malan and Adam Lyth, who took 75 off the first six overs and shared, in all, 83 inside eight overs.
The second, third, fourth and fifth overs all yielded double-figure totals, including 22 coming off the third as Dawid Malan hit four fours and a flat pulled six off former Yorkshire loan quick Conor McKerr.
Malan’s third successive Blast fifty, following 69 not out against the Bears and 88 against Leicestershire, came off 24 balls, and the White Rose were eyeing 200 plus.
Picture by Jas Ghata-Aura. Dawid Malan lofts a drive en-route to a third successive T20 fifty.
Unfortunately, however, it didn’t eventuate as the season-long trend of Yorkshire doing some good things but not for long enough continued.
On this occasion, they were throttled by spin even though the openers fell to seam. Lyth, on 29, miscued to cover off Dillon Pennington before Malan lobbed a return catch to McKerr off a leading edge as he attempted to play to leg.
But spin was evident as Calvin Harrison and Liam Patterson-White turned things around, Yorkshire losing three wickets for four runs in nine balls as they slipped from 117-2 to 121-5.
James Wharton swept Harrison’s leg-spin to deep mid-wicket midway through the 12th over before Harry Duke was caught behind by a beauty from left-armer Patterson-White, who then had Luxton caught at deep mid-wicket pulling later in the 13th over.
From there, Yorkshire were scrambling instead of motoring towards the 200 or even more total which had looked very likely only moments ago.
Patterson-White finished with the pick of the figures, 2-24 from four overs, while Pennington and Australian Daniel Sams also struck twice apiece.
Matthew Revis helped Yorkshire steady the ship and get up above 170, contributing an unbeaten 27 to give the bowlers something to work with.
Will Sutherland wasn’t one of those bowlers this evening, the Australian all-rounder playing as a batter only after missing the last two games with a broken toe.
But Jack White, on T20 debut for the county, started in fine fashion having taken the new ball on his White Rose T20 debut.
Picture by Jas Ghata-Aura. Adam Lyth pulls at Trent Bridge this evening.
He bowled a pulling Lyndon James with one that scooted through and then had Jack Haynes caught at cover next ball, leaving Notts at 4-2 after one over of their chase.
Captain Joe Clarke then played the lead role in turning things around.
He took White for two sixes over mid-wicket at the end of the third over, which finished with the score at 32-2.
He had shared a half-century stand with Freddie McCann, and left-handed McCann helped out by pulling Will O’Rourke for six over backward square-leg as the score reached 67-2 at the end of the powerplay.
Jafer Chohan’s leg-spin – his third ball – broke the Clarke and McCann partnership on 63 when the latter miscued a reverse sweep high to cover in the seventh over, 67-3.
Notts reached the halfway mark in their chase at 91-3, needing 85 more with Clarke and Tom Moores together.
But Clarke, having reached a 28-ball fifty, fell next ball to Dom Bess as he drilled to long-off, leaving the score at 104-4 in the 12th over. The hosts still needed 72.
And when Moores, on 19, skied White to long-on in the next, Yorkshire were right back in the game at 106-5.
That theory was rubber-stamped in the next over when Matt Montgomery skied O’Rourke to Bess, who took a good catch running around much straighter from long-on.
Notts reached the 15-over mark at 121-6, needing 55 more.
Picture by Jas Ghata-Aura. Dom Bess with bat in hand. But his biggest contribution this evening was in the field, taking two wickets and three superb catches.
But Sams and Patterson-White fell to successive deliveries from Bess and Jafer Chohan at the end of the 16th and start of the 17th over, leaving the score at 136-8.
Sams was caught and bowled – Bess’s third catch – and Patterson-White caught at long-on.
Although Notts got the target down to 22 off the last two and 17 off the last, they were the killer blows.
And White returned to bowl McKerr in the last to finish with a career best and clinch four points.
Magic moment: Dawid Malan hit 22 off former Yorkshire loanee Conor McKerr in the fourth over of the match, taking the score to 58-0.
The first five balls of the over went 4, 4, 4, 4, 6.
You could also look at the last two overs, with Will O’Rourke and Jack White nailing their yorkers at the end. Between them, in defence of 22, they only conceded 12 runs. They just did not miss.
Turning point: Big-hitting Australian Daniel Sams had just heaved Dom Bess for back-to-back sixes over mid-wicket, taking the score to 136-6 after 15.5 overs.
But he drilled a return catch to the off-spinner before, next ball, Jafer Chohan removed Liam Patterson-White. At 136-8, with 40 still needed, the visitors were in charge.
Stat of the match: Dawid Malan has 219 runs to his name in five North Group matches this term. He is the second leading run-scorer in the competition behind Lancashire opener and captain Keaton Jennings (224).
Picture by Jas Ghata-Aura. Yorkshire’s fielders congratulate Jack White following the early wicket of Lyndon James.
What they said – Yorkshire seamer Jack White: “That was good fun, I really enjoyed it. Great to get another win.
“Every time we felt like we’d clawed it back a bit, they seemed to get a boundary. But we closed it out and, as I said, it was great to get another win.
“It was definitely a lot easier to score in the powerplay against the newer ball. Both sides showed that. We knew that.
“Even if they got away a bit, we felt we could fight back with the spinners in the middle period with plenty of slower balls.
“Mala was unbelievable. He’s played a few already this year, and he’s a fantastic player.
“That first over went alright, didn’t it! I just tried to put it on a length and got a bit of luck.”
What’s next: It’s a case of Friday night lights at Headingley, with the Bears the visitors in 48 hours’ time. The game kicks off at 6.30pm, and the White Rose will be looking to avenge last Friday’s defeat at Edgbaston.
