Lancashire lose at Yorkshire

10:41am Thursday 19th June 2008

Comments (1)   Have your say »

LANCASHIRE suffered a Twenty20 hangover as Darren Gough inflicted a second defeat in two days on the Old Trafford outfit.

Just a day after Lightning's 100 per cent Twenty20 record was ended by Durham, Gough was the conquering hero with the bat as Yorkshire beat their Roses rivals by two wickets with two balls remaining in this Cup match at Headingley Carnegie.

Chasing a 151 target in murky light, Yorkshire seemed dead in the water when Dominic Cork began the 18th over with the score on 121 for eight after Sajid Mahmood had just captured two wickets in five balls to give Lancashire the upper hand.

Adil Rashid could not score off Cork's first ball, but four leg byes and a single brought Gough to the striker's end and he whacked the next three deliveries to the boundary to make it 17 off the over.

The ninth-wicket pair chipped seven off the penultimate over from Kyle Hogg, and Tom Smith was left to bowl the final over with six required.

Rashid sprinted a single off the second ball, and after four leg byes had levelled the scores, Gough smashed the winning boundary through cover point to finish on 20 from just nine balls with four fours.

The most successful of Yorkshire's bowlers was medium-pacer, Richard Pyrah, who finished with three for 20 off his four overs, his first victim being captain Stuart Law.

Law and Mal Loye had put on 35 together after the early dismissal of Lou Vincent and Loye went on to top score with 43 from 33 deliveries with five fours and a six before driving McGrath's first ball high to Pyrah at long on.