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Iain Wardlaw: 4-10 in 12 balls to end trough of defeat

Paceman Iain Wardlaw, pictured, brought Yorkshire Second Eleven their first victory for almost three months with a 4-10 spell in 12 balls to despatch Northamptonshire by 37 runs in the 40-over Trophy competition.

Earlier Adam Lyth had led the way with 70 as a large crowd by Second Eleven standards at the Britannia Cricket Ground in Pudsey witnessed a record-breaking first-wicket stand of 137 by Lyth and fellow left-hander Joe Sayers after the hosts had won yet another toss.

These two provided the foundation of what was to prove to be a match-winning total of 244-6, cameo innings of 20s and 30s making up the balance. David Lucas, formerly of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, was the most economical of the Northamptonshire bowlers on a ground where ones, fours and sixes were the norm - not a single three was scored all day and a mere dozen twos contributed to the match aggregate of 454.

It was going to be difficult on such a small ground to defend the Yorkshire total...and so it nearly proved. An opening 50 stand between David Willey and Andrew Reynoldson saw the visitors off to a good start, but three quick wickets - followed by two more 20 runs later - saw them reduced to 72-5 with a third of their overs gone.

The game swung back to Northamptonshire as David Murphy and Lucas broke the sixth-wicket record in Trophy matches between the two counties, running up 113.

Wardlaw returned to bowl the last three of his eight-over allocation: he conceded 14 in the first, but with the first ball of his seventh over he bowled Murphy, and with the fourth he bowled Basil Akram. The intervening over brought 11 runs and a run-out, but Lucas’s stumps were re-arranged by Wardlaw’s fifth ball of his last over to be followed by Tom Brett’s similar dismissal with his last ball: 4-10 in 12 balls was the match-winning performance.

It is not unusual for a batsman to be dismissed first ball. It is surely more unusual for two to be out first ball in the same innings. Yet three Northamptonshire men managed to be out first ball in this innings - how unusual is that?

Steven Patterson was the first bowler to take two in two; David Girling managed it with the first two balls he bowled in Second Eleven cricket, and Wardlaw was the third. To their credit, three of the visitors’ batsmen survived hat-trick balls! One of these days, ye ancient scorer will record a Second Eleven hat-trick...

The two counties are taking up the cudgels again at Headingley Carnegie in the seventh Championship match of the Yorkshire Seconds’ season. So much depends on the weather.

Second XI Trophy Yorkshire v Northamptonshire

Tuesday, August 09 2011 (12:00) at Britannia Cricket Ground, Pudsey

Yorkshire Won By 37 runs

Yorkshire won toss and decided to bat

Yorkshire	Northamptonshire
244 for 6 (40.0 overs)	207 all out (37.0 overs)
2 Hours, 37 Minutes.	2 Hours, 26 Minutes.

Yorkshire

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
A Lyth	c Mommsen	b Burton	70	81	105	8	0	86.42
JJ Sayers*	c Davis	b Reynoldson	68	74	92	8	1	91.89
JE Root	c Mommsen	b Sweeney	27	29	34	2	0	93.10
GL Brophy+		b Lucas	23	21	28	1	1	109.52
CJ Geldart	c Mommsen	b Sweeney	30	16	30	2	2	187.50
AE Lilley	lbw	b Lucas	1	3	1	0	0	33.33
DF Girling	not out		12	17	22	0	1	70.59
GS Randhawa	not out		0	0	0	0	0	0.00
SA Patterson
I Wardlaw
OJ Hannon-Dalby
Extras	1b 3lb 7w 2nb 0pen		13
Provisional Score For Innings			244
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			244	for 6

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
DS Burton	7.0	0	51	1	4 (4)	1 (2)	47.00	7.29
DS Lucas	8.0	0	32	2	0 (0)	0 (0)	24.00	4.00
S Sweeney	8.0	0	57	2	1 (1)	0 (0)	24.50	7.13
CAL Davis	3.0	0	15	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	5.00
PL Mommsen	3.0	0	20	0	1 (1)	0 (0)	0.00	6.67
T Brett	6.0	0	33	0	1 (1)	0 (0)	0.00	5.50
AM Reynoldson	5.0	0	32	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	30.00	6.40

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
JJ Sayers	1-137	137	JJ Sayers (68) A Lyth (61)	24.3
A Lyth	2-158	21	A Lyth (9) JE Root (12)	27.3
JE Root	3-189	31	JE Root (15) GL Brophy (15)	33.2
GL Brophy	4-198	9	GL Brophy (8) CJ Geldart (1)	34.2
AE Lilley	5-200	2	AE Lilley (1) CJ Geldart (1)	34.6
CJ Geldart	6-243	43	CJ Geldart (28) DF Girling (11)	39.5

Northamptonshire

Batsman			Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S/r
DJ Willey	lbw	b Root	35	30	34	8	0	116.67
AM Reynoldson	c Root	b Girling	26	34	61	4	0	76.47
PL Mommsen	lbw	b Patterson	0	4	4	0	0	0.00
CAL Davis	c Brophy	b Patterson	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
D Murphy*+		b Wardlaw	73	85	90	6	2	85.88
RI Keogh	c Lyth	b Girling	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
DS Lucas		b Wardlaw	54	61	83	1	3	88.52
BMR Akram		b Wardlaw	1	2	3	0	0	50.00
DS Burton	run out		1	1	4	0	0	100.00
S Sweeney	not out		3	3	7	0	0	100.00
T Brett		b Wardlaw	0	1	0	0	0	0.00
Extras	0b 8lb 4w 2nb 0pen		14
Provisional Score For Innings			207
Penalties awarded following Innings			0
Total			207	all out

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Wd	Nb	S/r	Econ
OJ Hannon-Dalby	4.0	0	32	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	8.00
I Wardlaw	8.0	0	51	4	1 (2)	1 (2)	12.50	6.38
SA Patterson	7.0	0	42	2	0 (0)	0 (0)	21.00	6.00
JE Root	5.0	0	17	1	0 (0)	0 (0)	30.00	3.40
DF Girling	4.0	0	12	2	1 (1)	0 (0)	12.50	3.00
AE Lilley	4.0	0	30	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.00	7.50
GS Randhawa	5.0	0	15	0	1 (1)	0 (0)	0.00	3.00

Batsman	Fall of Wicket	Partnership	Batsmen	Over
DJ Willey	1-52	52	DJ Willey (35) AM Reynoldson (17)	8.3
PL Mommsen	2-53	1	PL Mommsen (0) AM Reynoldson (1)	9.2
CAL Davis	3-53	0	CAL Davis (0) AM Reynoldson (0)	9.3
AM Reynoldson	4-72	19	AM Reynoldson (8) D Murphy (8)	14.1
RI Keogh	5-72	0	RI Keogh (0) D Murphy (0)	14.2
D Murphy	6-185	113	D Murphy (65) DS Lucas (37)	34.1
BMR Akram	7-187	2	BMR Akram (1) DS Lucas (1)	34.4
DS Burton	8-190	3	DS Burton (1) DS Lucas (2)	35.1
DS Lucas	9-207	17	DS Lucas (14) S Sweeney (3)	36.5
T Brett	10-207	0	T Brett (0) S Sweeney (0)	36.6