Peter Handscomb, Wiaan Mulder maintain Leicestershire on track for house semi-final

Leicestershire 186 for 4 (Handscomb 60, Mulder 51*) beat Yorkshire 184 (Coad 45, Salisbury 3-28) by six wickets

Leicestershire Foxes wrapped up their Metro Bank One-Day Cup group fixtures with a six-wicket victory over Yorkshire Vikings at Grace Road – however they must wait till Tuesday to know whether or not seven wins from eight can be sufficient to take them on to a house semi-final as Group A winners.

Hampshire’s win over Surrey means they’ll nonetheless equal Leicestershire’s factors tally by beating Kent in a house fixture on Tuesday, which would depart web run-rate to find out the ultimate placings. Whoever finishes second must first win a house quarter-final subsequent Friday to remain within the competitors.

The Vikings risked a extra humbling defeat till a ninth-wicket stand of 75 between Dom Bess (40) and Ben Coad (45) – career-best List A scores for each – rescued Yorkshire from 91 for eight, however the defeat mixed with Lancashire’s win at Lord’s ends their probability of qualifying for the knock-out levels through a top-three end.

Wright had Yorkshire on the again foot from the beginning by decreasing them to 24 for 3 in eight overs after Leicestershire needed to rethink their bowling plans with two of their main competitors wicket-takers – Josh Hull and Tom Scriven – sidelined with a abdomen bug.

After the Foxes had gained the toss, Wright had Harry Duke caught behind as he under-edged a ball outdoors off stump earlier than Shan Masood and Will Luxton departed from consecutive balls, the left-handed Masood squared up a little bit and brought at slip, the right-handed Luxton comprehensively bowled by one which appeared to return again sharply.

Until the Bess-Coad fightback, dropping common wickets stymied Yorkshire’s makes an attempt to construct momentum. Salisbury, first change on the Bennett End as Wright took a breather with figures of three for 12, struck along with his third ball as Fin Bean performed throughout one which thudded into the entrance pad.

Bean and James Wharton constructed one thing of a platform, including 36 in seven overs, however the Vikings stalled once more after Bean’s dismissal, dropping Wharton to a catch at deep midwicket adopted by George Hill, who pushed at one from Salisbury to be caught behind.

Salisbury picked up a 3rd wicket when Ben Mike, dealing with his former team-mates, was leg earlier than to a supply that stored a contact low earlier than Will Davis – on his first 50-over call-up of the season – had Matthew Revis caught at brief midwicket.

With no front-line spinner to name on with Rehan Ahmed, Callum Parkinson and Colin Ackermann all hooked up to Hundred franchises, skipper Lewis Hill caught along with his 5 seamers, however Bess and Coad seemed comfy till Bess, making an attempt to paddle-scoop Wiaan Mulder, shovelled the ball into the gloves of wicketkeeper Handscomb.

Hill lastly turned to Louis Kimber, a part-time spinner however one who had a four-for along with his off-breaks on this competitors final yr. Kimber took solely three overs to assert the final Yorkshire wicket, beating Coad’s expansive swing for Handscomb to execute a stumping.

It had not seemed like a pitch conducive to scrub hitting, but openers Rishi Patel and Sol Budinger maybe understandably selected to not deviate from the aggressive method that had introduced between them 673 runs within the competitors.

It backfired this time as each had been out inside the primary 15 balls of the Foxes innings, Patel miscuing George Hill to mid-on earlier than Budinger, aiming to smear Coad over midwicket, was caught by wicketkeeper Duke after the ball left his bat vertically.

Handscomb and Hill adopted a extra cautious coverage however after a dozen overs of pushing the scoreboard alongside steadily at a required charge of simply over 3.5 runs an over, Hill was given out leg earlier than attempting to work a ball from Coad.

The scoring charge went up sharply when Handscomb was joined by Mulder, bringing two in-form batters to the crease. After Aussie Handscomb accomplished his fifth half-century within the competitors thus far, including a pull for six off Mike to 4 boundaries, Leicestershire had been 110 for 3 after 25 overs, needing 75 to win within the second half of the innings.

Dom Bess broke their partnership when Handscomb went to show him down the leg aspect and feathered a catch by means of to Duke however Mulder quickly accomplished his fourth fifty within the competitors off 73 balls with 5 fours earlier than Kimber hoisted Jack Shutt’s off spin for six over midwicket after which hammered the profitable boundary off Mike.