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Captain's innings: Alex Lees, who top-scored with 77 for Yorkshire Academy before he was run out by Oliver Hannon-Dalby

A captain's top score of 77 by Alex Lees, above, helped Yorkshire Academy to victory by 54 runs against Barnsley in the Solly Sports ECB Yorkshire County Premier League at Weetwood.

Academy reached 195-9 in their 55 overs, with off-spinner Richard Wilkinson, former Yorkshire player and coach, taking 5-55, and Barnsley replied with 141-9. Left-hand spinner Gurman Randhawa topped Academy's bowling with 4-46 in a heavy stint of 21 overs.

Lees started the day well - winning the toss and deciding to bat - but he lost opening partner Callum Geldart to a good catch by Gary Ballance low down at second slip.

George Ross, making a rare appearance, settled things down, and with Lees added 76 before he was clean bowled by former Academy coach Wilkinson. Jack Hargreaves was lbw first ball to seamer Gary Yates, and Wilkinson then bowled Jack Leaning to leave the Academy rocking at 98-4.

A stand of 30 by Jack Hughes and Lees steadied the ship, but Wilkinson claimed the wickets of Hughes, 18, and David Girling. Seven runs after Girling's dismissal Lees went to a silly run-out, Oliver Hannon-Dalby snaring him with a direct hit. An excellent innings by Lees: he held the side together, and he was the only batsman to read Wilkinson well.

In the last eight overs Randhawa, 14, Henry Chadwick, 10 not out, and James Wainman pushed on to a respectable total - Wainman striking two fine fours and a towering six in his 10-ball knock. It was Wilkinson's excellent bowling which subdued the Academy and Lees who held the innings together.

An excellent start was needed from the Academy bowlers...and they delivered. Barnsley were limping at 9-3, Simon Widdup the first to fall when he dragged a full-length ball from Hargreaves on to his stumps. Jack struck again when he bowled Matt Wilson, and he had Steven Nuttall lbw after he had faced three balls.

Ballance and Glen Yates played soundly for 14 overs and saw off the quicker bowlers -Wainman conceding only two runs in five overs. It was the introduction - not for the first time this year - of two left-arm spinners, Hughes and Randhawa, which slowed the scoring rate and caused the middle-order problems.

Even suffering from a thigh injury, Hughes bowled nine tight overs for 17 runs and two wickets - Wilkinson and Hannon-Dalby. With 39 overs bowled and Barnsley 99-9 Academy had eight points for the taking. Wicket-keeper Luke Bullingham and Jack Price had other ideas: they put on 42 in a last-wicket unbeaten partnership as Lees switched his bowlers in vain. The last pair's resistance earned a useful point to ease Barnsley's pain.

The Academy, in taking six points, move above Barnsley and Scarborough to second place below York.

Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI v Barnsley CC 1st XI

Saturday, July 03 2010 (12:00) at Weetwood, Leeds

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI Won By 54 runs

Points: Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI: 6 Barnsley CC 1st XI: 1

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI won toss and decided to bat

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI	Barnsley CC 1st XI
195 for 9 (55.0 overs)	141 for 9 (55.0 overs)
3 Hours, 1 Minutes.	2 Hours, 55 Minutes.

Yorkshire Academy CC 1st XI

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
A Lees*	run out(O Hannon-Dalby)		77	132	158	9	0	58.33
C Geldart	c G Ballance	b H Londt	1	15	12	0	0	6.67
G Ross		b R Wilkinson	33	59	70	3	0	55.93
J Hargreaves	lbw	b G Yates	0	1	3	0	0	0.00
J Leaning		b R Wilkinson	4	13	18	0	0	30.77
J Hughes		b R Wilkinson	18	35	25	4	0	51.43
D Girling	c J Price (J)	b R Wilkinson	6	19	18	0	0	31.58
G Randhawa	st L Bullingham (J)	b G Yates	14	19	23	2	0	73.68
H Chadwick+	not out		10	23	25	0	0	43.48
J Wainman		b R Wilkinson	19	10	10	2	1	190.00
A Robinson	not out		1	4	4	0	0	25.00
Extras	0nb 0w 4lb 8b 0pen		12
Provisional Score For Innings			195
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			195	for 9

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
O Hannon-Dalby	11.0	1	33	0	0(0)	0(0)	0.00	3.00
H Londt	6.0	0	22	1	0(0)	0(0)	36.00	3.67
G Yates	17.0	1	73	2	0(0)	0(0)	51.00	4.29
R Wilkinson	21.0	7	55	5	0(0)	0(0)	25.20	2.62

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
C Geldart	1-8	8	C Geldart(1) A Lees(7)	3.5
G Ross	2-84	76	G Ross(33) A Lees(35)	23.6
J Hargreaves	3-85	1	J Hargreaves(0) A Lees(1)	24.4
J Leaning	4-98	13	J Leaning(4) A Lees(9)	29.3
J Hughes	5-128	30	J Hughes(18) A Lees(12)	37.6
D Girling	6-144	16	D Girling(6) A Lees(10)	43.3
A Lees	7-153	9	A Lees(3) G Randhawa(2)	47.2
G Randhawa	8-165	12	G Randhawa(12) H Chadwick(0)	50.2
J Wainman	9-188	23	J Wainman(19) H Chadwick(4)	53.3

Barnsley CC 1st XI

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
M Wilson		b J Hargreaves	2	17	21	0	0	11.76
S Widdup		b J Hargreaves	2	15	13	0	0	13.33
G Ballance	c J Leaning	b G Randhawa	30	63	81	2	0	47.62
S Nuttall	lbw	b J Hargreaves	0	3	6	0	0	0.00
G Yates		b G Randhawa	28	47	53	4	0	59.57
J Booth*	lbw	b G Randhawa	18	45	48	2	0	40.00
R Wilkinson	c A Lees	b J Hughes	5	25	25	1	0	20.00
H Londt	c J Hargreaves	b G Randhawa	0	7	6	0	0	0.00
L Bullingham (J)+	not out		28	54	52	3	0	51.85
O Hannon-Dalby	c J Hargreaves	b J Hughes	2	9	5	0	0	22.22
J Price (J)	not out		14	52	44	0	0	26.92
Extras	7nb 1w 4lb 0b 0pen		12
Provisional Score For Innings			141
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			141	for 9

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
J Hargreaves	9.0	1	32	3	1(1)	4(4)	19.67	3.56
J Wainman	5.0	3	2	0	0(0)	0(0)	0.00	0.40
A Robinson	5.0	0	19	0	0(0)	1(1)	0.00	3.80
D Girling	5.0	0	14	0	0(0)	0(0)	0.00	2.80
G Randhawa	21.0	7	46	4	0(0)	1(1)	31.75	2.19
J Hughes	9.0	3	17	2	0(0)	0(0)	27.00	1.89
G Ross	1.0	0	7	0	0(0)	1(1)	0.00	7.00

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
S Widdup	1-7	7	S Widdup(2) M Wilson(2)	2.6
M Wilson	2-9	2	M Wilson(0) G Ballance(1)	4.6
S Nuttall	3-9	0	S Nuttall(0) G Ballance(0)	6.3
G Yates	4-61	52	G Yates(28) G Ballance(23)	21.4
G Ballance	5-75	14	G Ballance(6) J Booth(7)	25.3
R Wilkinson	6-93	18	R Wilkinson(5) J Booth(10)	34.1
H Londt	7-94	1	H Londt(0) J Booth(1)	35.5
J Booth	8-96	2	J Booth(0) L Bullingham (J)(2)	37.1
O Hannon-Dalby	9-99	3	O Hannon-Dalby(2) L Bullingham (J)(1)	38.6