Yorkshire 222 for five (Wharton 54*, Masood 54) beat Essex 221 (Pepper 63, Bess 5-37, Revis 4-54) by 5 wickets

The Vikings reached their goal with 25 balls remaining, barely breaking sweat and solely 5 wickets down. Shan Masood, their Pakistani white-ball captain, led the way in which with a affected person 54 from 66 balls, with James Wharton seeing them over the road with an unbeaten 54 from 49 balls.

Yorkshire had seen two of their earlier three video games within the competitors deserted with no ball bowled, and the opposite misplaced to Kent by simply two runs underneath DLS. But they bounced again on the identical wicket that Essex had gained a thriller underneath the Chelmsford floodlights in opposition to Middlesex on Friday.

Pepper's whirlwind innings encompassed your complete powerplay earlier than he fell to the final ball of the tenth over, skying Bess to cowl. The wicket had come at a value to Yorkshire, although, as Pepper had simply gone by means of his repertoire off the earlier three balls, sweeping, lofting over midwicket and reverse-sweeping for boundaries.

In all, Pepper scored 58 of his 63 runs in boundaries, three of them clearing the ropes with out bouncing, two of them in an over from Ben Coad that went for 22 as Essex rattled up three figures inside 10 overs. Das contributed 32 within the opening stand of 103 and tucked into Bess with three fours in a row throughout a run-a-ball 36.

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Tom Westley maintained the tempo in a brisk 17 earlier than he chased a large supply from Revis and was caught behind. Three balls later Das drove straight again to the bowler. Luc Benkenstein placed on 50 in six overs with Beau Webster, each of them hammering two sixes every as Essex continued to attain at round eight an over.

But that cost was stifled, beginning when Revis claimed his third and fourth wickets in simply six balls with Benkenstein clubbing to mid-on and Simon Harmer chipping to brief midwicket.

Jack Shutt had Charlie Allison lbw sweeping earlier than Bess took centre stage with the ultimate 4 wickets, three of them falling in six balls as Essex left 14 overs unused, He had Webster caught behind making an attempt to chop, Jamal Richards patting again a return catch, Will Buttleman overwhelmed by one which saved low and Aron Nijjar enjoying on.

In comparability, Yorkshire's openers have been extra circumspect and had simply 46 on the board on the finish of the powerplay, lower than half of Essex's 10-over whole. The pair have been collectively for precisely an hour, having knocked off 80 from the goal, earlier than Bean was caught in two minds in opposition to Webster's offspin and the ball was previous him earlier than he jerked his bat down.

Fellow opener Duke reverse-swept Harmer for the primary of 4 fours in his affected person 42 earlier than he was bowled making an attempt to scoop Nijjar. The spinner then had George Hill snaffled at brief midwicket earlier than Harmer dived full-length to his left to take a return catch and dismiss Will Fraine.

The Vikings had turn out to be becalmed in mid-innings with no boundary for nearly 10 overs earlier than Masood added to his earlier six over lengthy leg with successive fours off Nijjar. He placed on 68 in 11 overs with Wharton to take Yorkshire inside 42 of victory, however was strangled down the leg-side by Westley with Buttleman taking the catch.

Wharton took Yorkshire within reach of the goal with two sixes in an over from Webster, the second over midwicket to achieve his first white-ball fifty from 47 balls.