YORKSHIRE V LEICESTERSHIRE

Yorkshire won the toss and batted. Jacques Rudolph opened the innings with Craig White but White soon went for 11. The in form Gerald Brophy came in at number three and he helped Rudolph at 42, scoring 36 of themselves in a fine display of hitting with 7 fours in a 22 ball stay. Rudolph continued to accumulate runs in good style but there was little substance to Yorkshire's middle order, Younus Khan went early while McGrath 20 and Gale 17 got starts but failed to take advantage against some good bowling by the Western Australian medium pacer Allenby who took 3 for 44. Rudolph went through to his second Yorkshire ton from 166 balls with 10 fours but then immediately went to Cummins leaving Yorkshire 229 for 7. Some good late hitting by Bresnan 32 not out (21 balls, 3 fours and a six) and Gillespie 15 not out (8 balls, 1 six) got Yorkshire up to a slightly disappointing 282 for 8.

Gough and Gillespie struck early to reduce the Foxes to 34 for 2 but then the game was taken away from them by Man of the Match Allenby and the South African Ackerman. They put on 131 before Ackerman went to Pyrah for 66 (80 balls) but that was snails pace compared to Allenby whose 84 came off 66 balls with 7 fours and 4 sixes. He was also removed by Pyrah. Harsh treatment was dished out to Patterson (40 runs in 4 overs), Bresnan (69 runs in 9) and Younus Khan (32 runs in 4). An unbroken partnership of 94 between Nixon (42 not out) and Sadler (59 not out) took Leicestershire to a six wicket victory with 16 balls to spare. Pyrah's 2 for 15 was the highlight of Yorkshire's bowling attack.