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Vitality Blast - North Group
MATCH COMPLETE Vitality T20 Blast • 23 July 2019 Fischer County Ground
Result: Yorkshire Vikings won by 54 runs
LCCC REPORT | Records tumbled - including the highest aggregate of runs in a Vitality Blast game involving Leicestershire Foxes - as Yorkshire Vikings recorded an entertaining 54-run victory.
The visitors’ score of 255 for two was the highest T20 score at the Fischer County Ground as well as the biggest total notched against the Foxes. A match total of 31 sixes also equalled the domestic best for a T20 match.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore ended unbeaten on 96 (54b, 4x4, 8x6), the skipper playing a fine knock between lightning innings in the sixties by Adam Lyth and Nicholas Pooran.
It was always going to be a tall order for the Foxes, but there were some good innings, particularly from Lewis Hill (49no, 28b, 2x4, 4x6) and Arron Lilley (47, 24b, 2x4, 4x6).
The score of 201 for four was Leicestershire Foxes’ fourth highest team competition total at Grace Road.
And a match total of 456 beat the previous highest match aggregate of a Foxes game, the 432 amassed by the same teams at Headingley in 2004.
One change was made as Aadil Ali came in for Gavin Griffiths, and County bowled first after winning the toss.
The second ball of the game was carved for six by Lyth, who also glanced a four in the first over.
A total of 17 runs came off the second as Kohler-Cadmore drove down the ground for four while Lyth picked up three consecutive boundaries.
Ben Mike bowled a superb third over that went for only two singles, although the third and fourth overs each yielded 20.
Lyth swept Colin Ackermann’s first delivery for six, Kohler-Cadmore also struck a maximum, while a wide ran away to the fence.
Another wide at the start of the fifth over brought up the 50, and Lyth gathered his third six by clouting over short fine-leg before the batsman then drove over cover and mid-wicket.
Lyth motored to 50 off 21 balls (6x4, 3x6) as the score moved to 76 without loss after the powerplay, and Kohler-Cadmore hit the first ball of the seventh over the ropes at long-on.
Although Dexter started the eighth over well, the final ball to Lyth just had enough to clear the rope at third man, and the 100 partnership came up in the ninth.
Another six was hit by Kohler-Cadmore over mid-on en route to the duo equalling the Vikings’ highest opening stand against the Foxes by the halfway point – 116.
It ended there as Lyth (69, 35b, 8x4, 4x6) struck the slow left arm of Parkinson to Klein at deep square-leg.
There was no respite for the Foxes as the second wicket yielded a further 121 in just 8.1 overs.
Kohler-Cadmore lofted his fourth six, this time over backward square, to move to 50 off 34 balls (3x4, 4x6) in the 13th, while both he and Pooran cleared the fence in the next over as the score raced beyond 150.
A pick-up over mid-wicket brought Kohler-Cadmore a further six in 15th, and 27 came off the next, including three sixes and a four for Pooran.
The West Indies international’s next rope-clearer brought up a 22-ball 50 (4x4, 5x6), while a straight four by the left-hander recorded the 100 stand.
Kohler-Cadmore and Pooran (67, 28b, 6x4, 6x6) each hit a six in the 18th before the former struck Klein to Parkinson at third man in a reversal of the first dismissal.
Harry Brook struck his third ball over the fence, and Kohler-Cadmore collected his eighth six as he ended just short of a century.
Mark Cosgrove got the scoreboard moving by cracking Duanne Olivier for three fours and a six, and Dexter also pulled the opening bowler for a maximum, but David Willey (4-0-23-0) bowled well at the Pavilion End to keep the Foxes to 39 off five overs.
A handsome drive by Dexter, followed by a deft flick for six, saw the stand reach 50 inside the powerplay but Olivier gained some revenge by bowling the batsman for 25 (19b).
Two tight overs followed from Jordan Thompson and Dom Bess before Ackermann lofted the seamer high over mid-wicket in the ninth.
Off-spinner Bess enticed Cosgrove (31, 29b) to loft to Gary Ballance at backward point as the Foxes moved to 82 for two after ten.
The spirited Foxes kept going for their strokes. Lilley clattered two straight sixes – the second of which immediately followed a four – but Ackermann (29, 18b) was then bowled by Thompson.
All-rounder Lilley then smoked a third maximum, this time over mid-on, before a cheeky scoop and sweep from Hill brought a brace of fours.
Two mighty consecutive maximums from Hill to mid-wicket off Bess took the score beyond 150, and Lilley’s fourth six meant that 23 came off the 16th.
A deft touch from Lilley raced down to third man before he holed out off Pillans to end the stand at 67, and Hill smashed consecutive maximums over mid-wicket as he narrowly missed out on reaching fifty.
YCCC REPORT
Yorkshire are now the holders of the two highest innings totals in English T20 history after smashing a stunning 255-2 in a first Vitality Blast victory of the season over Leicestershire at Grace Road.
The Vikings fell five runs short of their own record, 260-4 against Northamptonshire at Emerald Headingley in 2017, on a chastening night for both bowling attacks.
Captain Tom Kohler-Cadmore top-scored with 96 not out from 54 balls, while opening partner Adam Lyth crashed 69 off 35 and West Indies overseas star Nicholas Pooran 67 off 28.
Leicestershire responded with a spirited 201-4, handing Yorkshire a 54-run win from their third North Group match to go with a defeat and a No Result.
Yorkshire’s innings included 19 sixes, just one short of the record 20 set by Essex against Surrey at Chelmsford only last week.
Kohler-Cadmore hit eight of them and left-handers Pooran and Lyth six and four apiece. Harry Brook added the last.
Kohler-Cadmore and Lyth shared an opening stand of 116 in 10.1 overs after the Foxes had elected to bowl first upon winning the toss on a baking hot evening.
In Yorkshire’s innings, 13 overs went for double-figure scores, while four of those went for 20 or more, including left-arm spinner Callum Parkinson for 27 in the 16th when Pooran hoisted three sixes, including one off a no ball, and a four.
A green-tinged pitch played like a batsman’s dream as Kohler-Cadmore and Lyth raced out of the blocks and posted 76 off the powerplay.
Kohler-Cadmore was particularly strong down the ground and over wide long-on on the way to his highest T20 score in a Yorkshire shirt.
In reaching his fifty off 32 balls, the 24-year-old was considerably slower than Lyth (21 balls) and Pooran (22) to the milestone.
Pooran was elevated from batting at number seven in Saturday’s defeat to Derbyshire at Chesterfield to number three, and David Willey did not even get a bat against a friendly attack.
This was some way for the Vikings’ top order to warm up for Thursday’s blockbuster Roses clash with Lancashire at a sold out Headingley (7pm).
But their bowlers were taken to task in the Foxes chase, even if you never felt the 256 target was being threatened.
When Neil Dexter was bowled by Duanne Olivier as he shuffled across his stumps and attempted to play to leg, Leicestershire had reached 51 in the sixth over.
South African speedster Olivier was one of three changes for the Vikings from that Derby defeat, with fellow seamers Mat Pillans and Tim Bresnan also coming in for Jonny Tattersall and injured duo Matthew Fisher (collarbone/thumb) and Josh Poysden (head).
Yorkshire’s sole frontline spin option, Bess, struck at the end of the 10th over when Australian Mark Cosgrove (31) skewed a catch to Gary Ballance at backward point, leaving the score at 82-2.
Jordan Thompson later forced Colin Ackermann to play onto his stumps (110-3 in the 13th), but Arron Lilley continued the batsman-themed night with some clean hitting on the way to 47 as the visitors also erred in line and length.
While Thompson (1-19 from three overs) was impressive, Willey probably just pipped him to the tag of the evening’s best bowler despite going wicketless in conceding only 23 from his four overs.
Pillans removed Lilley in the penultimate over of the match as Leicester fell to 177-4, but they did ensure that this fixture can lay claim to the joint English record for sixes in a match – 31, which was also recorded by Essex and Surrey at Chelmsford last week.
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