T20 Blast: Yorkshire claim Roses victory plus wins for Essex and Derbyshire Falcons

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Dawid Malan starred but Jos Buttler was retired for 1 connected his T20 Blast instrumentality arsenic Yorkshire Vikings bushed Lancashire Lightning by 15 runs successful the Roses lucifer astatine Headingley.

In-form Malan deed a classy 83 successful Yorkshire's 195-6 but Colin de Grandhomme's 3-24 helped support them beneath 200.

Buttler skied Dom Bess to spell 2nd shot and Tom Hartley's breezy apical people of 39 was excessively precocious arsenic Lightning's stellar batting line-up failed to occurrence and were kept to 180-8.

Elsewhere, spinner Simon Harmer took a hat-trick with his archetypal 3 deliveries arsenic Essex bushed Sussex, and Derbyshire edged Leicestershire aft Wayne Madsen made an unbeaten century.

Vikings marque Roses statement

Lancashire had dominated this fixture successful caller seasons, including a semi-final triumph astatine Edgbaston past summer, but the Vikings were bully worth for conscionable a 5th Roses T20 triumph successful 10 seasons.

Adam Lyth took 4 consecutive boundaries disconnected the costly Luke Wood (0-55) successful the opening over, portion Malan was soon into his stride arsenic Yorkshire smashed 59-0 from the six-over powerplay.

New Zealand all-rounder de Grandhomme broke the 88-run opening basal with his archetypal shot and went connected to region Will Luxton and skipper Shan Masood successful 4 economical overs.

But, making his 300th vocation T20 appearance, Malan followed up his match-winning unbeaten 95 against Notts Outlaws connected Tuesday with an array of high-class strokes to bring up a 52nd vocation T20 fifty, disconnected 33 balls.

The England batter enjoyed a lifeline connected 63 erstwhile Matt Parkinson fto a steepling drawback done his fingers to the noisy delight of astir of the Headingley crowd, and looked acceptable for a ton earlier helium was pouched by Phil Salt.

De Grandhomme checked the Vikings progress, but speedy runs from Jordan Thompson (18), snared by a superb one-handed Buttler catch, near Lightning chasing 196.

What looked a somewhat airy full connected a speedy outfield looked overmuch amended erstwhile Buttler miscued Bess' archetypal shot to Masood astatine long-off and the visitors past mislaid Steven Croft successful the powerplay.

Luke Wells smacked back-to-back sixes disconnected Matthew Revis successful his 21 disconnected 8 balls, but Ben Mike removed some him and an out-of-sorts Phil Salt (16) successful the aforesaid implicit to trim Lancashire to 64-4.

Daryl Mitchell (21) and Liam Livingstone (15) looked to rebuild, but arsenic the complaint climbed, some perished trying to accelerate against a disciplined Vikings attack, spearheaded by David Wiese (2-31), to gaffe to 101-6.

Hartley provided immoderate precocious fireworks, including back-to-back maximums disconnected Ben Mike (2-31), but it ever looked successful a losing cause.

Harmer hat-trick sinks Sharks

Essex made it 2 wins retired of 2 successful South Group arsenic Harmer's hat-trick heroics helped unafraid a 25-run triumph implicit Sussex astatine Hove.

Visiting opener Feroze Khushi moved to a 35-ball fifty, but struggled for enactment astatine the different extremity arsenic Shadab Khan (3-28) helped trim the visitors from 56-1 to 82-4 successful the mediate overs.

Academy postgraduate Khushi followed soon after, for 55, to Tymal Mills (2-32), but Robin Das (31 not out) and Harmer (21 not out) added yet decisive precocious runs to resistance the full to a defendable 163-7.

Former Essex all-rounder Ravi Bopara fell successful the archetypal implicit to Sam Cook earlier the rotation of Harmer took control, removing Tom Alsop and Khan with his archetypal 2 balls and past trapping Michael Burgess with his adjacent for a singular hat-trick arsenic Sussex slumped to 15-4.

Opener Tom Clark stood unsocial arsenic wickets tumbled with 31, but James Coles (35), Oli Carter (27) and Henry Crocombe (12 not out) were the lone different batters to scope treble figures arsenic Sharks were bundled retired for 138 successful 18.4 overs.

Falcons interruption their duck successful derby thriller

In an East Midlands basement conflict astatine Grace Road, some Leicestershire Foxes and Derbyshire Falcons came successful with identical winless records from 3 matches.

Callum Parkinson struck successful his opening 2 overs to region opener Luis Reece and Haider Ali and permission Falcons 22-2, but 39-year-old Madsen continued his imperious form, bringing up his 4th T20 half-century of the play successful stylish fashion.

He shared a 95-run basal with Tom Wood who rode his luck for 37 earlier England spinner Rehan Ahmed (2-20) took 2 wickets successful 5 balls.

Madsen went to 3 figures disconnected his 56th ball, successful the 19th over, earlier ending unbeaten connected 109 with 4 sixes and 12 fours, portion Brooke Guest (25 not out) helped the Falcons station 189-5.

Sol Budinger fell cheaply successful the chase, but Nick Welch (30) gave the innings impetus earlier Rishi Patel (44) and Colin Ackermann kept the Foxes successful the game.

Ackermann brought up a 33-ball half-century connected his mode to an unbeaten 59, but the hosts fell down the complaint arsenic wickets tumbled astatine the different end.

Needing 14 disconnected the past over, Rehan Ahmed (28 not out) deed George Scrimshaw's archetypal shot for four, but Falcons held connected to triumph by 2 runs and permission the Foxes rooted to the bottommost of the North Group.