Maxwell Shines!

By Gary Watton
August 2 2015

After another under-achieving summer in the Twenty20 circus, Yorkshire's Vikings have pulled their socks up (Do Vikings wear socks?) in the Royal London One-Day Cup, and following this afternoon's rain-damaged adventure in Durham, the Tykes have one foot in the quarter finals. A home fixture against Leicestershire looms on tomorrow's agenda, weather permitting, and if the red-hot duo of Maxwell and Ballance maintain their exceptional form, then Yorkshire can go far in this fifty-overs competition.

On a nice note of trivia, wicket keeper Andrew Hodd took four catches off four different bowlers. Such an occurrence must be almost as rare as consecutive wins for Yorkshire in one-day cricket!

Durham versus YORKSHIRE; at Durham; Sunday the second of August. YORKSHIRE won the toss.

Durham: 224 for seven (off forty-three overs)

Stoneman c Maxwell b Bresnan 16 (23-1)

Mustard c Hodd b Plunkett 32 (80-2)

Borthwick c Leaning b Plunkett 32 (84-3)

Clark c Maxwell b Plunkett 42 (158-5)

Collingwood st Hodd b Rashid 17 (128-4)

Pringle c Hodd b Bresnan 30 (189-6)

Muchall not out 35

Hastings c Hodd b Patterson 2 (198-7)

Jennings not out 11

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Plunkett 9-1-40-3

YORKSHIRE: 130 for two (off 24.3 overs)

Hodd c Mustard b Borthwick 20 (80-2)

Lees run out (Pringle) 9 (14-1)

Maxwell not out 65

Ballance not out 26

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YORKSHIRE win by thirty-two runs via the Duckworth-Lewis method. Durham no points, YORKSHIRE two points.