da pinnacle： A late blast from Darren Maddy charged Warwickshire to a four-wicket win overYorkshire at Scarborough and booked them a place against Somerset in nextSaturday’s Clydesdale Bank 40 final at Lord’s
da bet sport： 11-Sep-2010
ScorecardA late blast from Darren Maddy charged Warwickshire to a four-wicket win overYorkshire at Scarborough and booked them a place against Somerset in nextSaturday’s Clydesdale Bank 40 final at Lord’s.Defeat was a bitter blow for skipper Andrew Gale and his Yorkshire side afteranother great century from Jacques Rudolph and they will try to make amends bylifting the County Championship title in the final round of matches nextweek.Chasing a revised target of 260 in 37 overs under Duckworth-Lewis, Warwickshirewere well in control until they slid from 203 for 2 to 216 for 5. The last three overs arrived with Warwickshire still requiring 23 to win and the issue was effectively settled by Maddy who lashed Steve Patterson for consecutive sixes over mid-wicket and long leg.Rikki Clarke was bowled two balls later but the pressure was now offWarwickshire and two fours for Maddy off Anthony McGrath in the penultimate oversaw the Bears home with seven balls remaining.Maddy finished unbeaten on 34 from 19 deliveries with three fours and two sixesbut the first four batsmen in the Warwickshire line-up also made significantcontributions.Openers Neil Carter and Varun Chopra lashed 65 from the first seven oversbefore Carter was lbw to Ben Sanderson for 40 but Yorkshire were unable to puttheir opponents under any real pressure.Barker, surviving two difficult chances to Gale, knocked up 34 in a 52 standwith Chopra and was then well caught by wicketkeeper Gerard Brophy, standing upto Richard Pyrah, but this dismissal only brought in a determined Ian Bell whodominated a fourth-wicket partnership of 86 with Chopra.Bell had dashed to 57 off 49 balls with four fours and three sixes when he wassuperbly caught on the boundary by Jonny Bairstow – and Adil Rashid claimedanother wicket in the same over by having Jim Troughton caught at long off.Chopra’s fine innings ended when he drove Patterson to McGrath at mid-off for76 from 81 balls with five fours and a six but the mounting excitement of theYorkshire fans in the 5,100 crowd was soon quelled by Maddy.A short delay to the start made it a 39-overs-a-side match and a total of fourmore overs were lost for a break during the Yorkshire innings which was given apositive start by Gale and Jacques Rudolph.Once the early overs from Carter and Chris Woakes had been safely negotiatedthe pair flourished and each took a six off Woakes as the stand built up to 73in 12 overs before Gale drove Barker into the hands of Clarke at long on todepart for 30.Yorkshire then went through a lean spell during which Adam Lyth was dismissedby Ant Botha and McGrath was caught behind of Imran Tahir but either side ofthese mishaps Rudolph moved to a 46-ball half-century with five fours and asix.After Yorkshire had gone 13 overs without a boundary, Brophy ended the droughtby planting the last ball of Botha’s spell into the crowd and it was the startof a furious assault by the wicketkeeper-batsman as he dominated a 99 stand in12 overs with Rudolph, who calmly worked his way towards his fourth CB40 Leaguecentury of the season.Brophy had dashed to 64 from 46 balls with four fours and four sixes whenBarker had him caught at long off by Troughton to make it 212 for 3 with alittle over three overs remaining.Bairstow made sure Yorkshire finished with a flourish as he thrashed anunbeaten 26 from nine deliveries with two fours and two sixes but the biggestcheer was reserved for Rudolph when he cut Barker to move to his century off 93balls with nine fours and a six. He fell for 106 to the last ball of the inningsbravely attempting to complete a second run off Bairstow’s stroke.Warwickshire’s jubilant acting captain Bell said afterwards: “This is one ofmy proudest days with Warwickshire and we felt that it was a par score which wewere chasing.“I would even have been happy chasing a 300 target over a full 40 overs on thesmall North Marine Road ground and the lads batted very well all the waydown.”
