da apostaganha: Four wickets in nine balls for Jack Brooks were to no avail for Yorkshire asthey lost their opening Friends Life t20 match with Derbyshire by two wicketswith three balls to spare.
28-Jun-2013
ScorecardChesney Hughes set up Derbyshire’s chase but it nearly went badly wrong•Getty Images
Four wickets in nine balls for Jack Brooks were to no avail for Yorkshire asthey lost their opening Friends Life t20 match with Derbyshire by two wicketswith three balls to spare.Having been restricted to 119 for 8 after losing the toss at Headingley,Yorkshire seemed to have pulled the game their way as Derbyshire slumped to 70for 7 inside 13 overs after being 56 for 1. But Jon Clare, partnered by Tim Groenewald, slammed an unbeaten 35 from 29 balls in a ninth-wicket stand of 28 to see the visitors home in front of 3,700.Chesney Hughes and Wes Durston gave Derbyshire just the start they needed withan opening stand of 40 in seven overs, Hughes blasting Brooks for two fours anda six off the second over of the innings. But Richard Pyrah, who began with a maiden, then had Durston well caught byAzeem Rafiq at gully and Shivnarine Chanderpaul held by wicketkeeper JonnyBairstow attempting to cut.Yet it was the return of Brooks that did the real damage by grabbing twowickets in each of two consecutive overs to return career-best figures in thecompetition of 4 for 21.Hughes chopped into his stumps and Wayne Madsen edged a catch to Bairstowbefore Dan Redfern slashed and was brilliantly caught above his head at gully byRafiq and Tom Poynton holed out to Dan Hodgson on the midwicket boundary. It got even better for Yorkshire as Rafiq’s first ball was driven by AlbieMorkel low to Adam Lyth at long-on and the offspinner later trapped DavidWainwright lbw.But Clare had already thumped Rafiq over long-off for six and two foursin the 18th over from Liam Plunkett added further impetus to the Derbyshirefightback, which was nearing completion when 12 came off the penultimate over.Apart from Gary Ballance, who scored 44 from 45 balls with three fours and asix, Yorkshire’s innings never really got into gear and the highest partnershipthey could muster was only 28 for the sixth wicket between Ballance and Pyrah.Hodgson had threatened to break loose by smacking Groenewald for two fours anda six off four deliveries but he was run out for 17 when Bairstow, in what willbe his only Twenty20 appearance for his county this season, played his secondball to point and sent back his partner who could not beat Redfern’s directhit.