By Gary Watton
June 19 2016

Yorkshire Phoenix finally secured their first Twenty20 win of 2016, with the assistance of that lethal duo of Duckworth and Lewis. Admittedly the Tykes had a modest total to pursue, and one would like to think that were it not for the unwelcome intervention of the rain, then the hosts would still have reached their target. Originally the white rose won the toss for the umpteenth time in recent weeks, and each bowler gave a good account of himself - not least the rookie Carver and fellow slow bowler Azeem Rafiq who has been recalled to the ranks of Yorkshire CCC. It is going to be mighty difficult for the Phoenix to qualify for the last eight, but they can restore pride and get some wins under their belt, and who knows where it all might lead?

Twenty20 Blast: YORKSHIRE PHOENIX versus Nottinghamshire Outlaws; in Leeds; Friday the seventeeth of June 2016.

Match abandoned without a ball being bowled. YORKSHIRE PHOENIX one point, Nottinghamshire Outlaws one point.

Twenty20 Blast: YORKSHIRE PHOENIX versus Derbyshire Falcons; in Leeds; Sunday the nineteenth of June 2016. YORKSHIRE PHOENIX won the toss.

Derbyshire Falcons: 153 for nine (off twenty overs)

Broom c Bairstow b Willey 5 (18-1)

Rutherford c Lyth b Rafiq 15 (35-3)

Hughes.C c Plunkett b Rafiq 4 (23-2)

Thakor b Bresnan 30 (93-5)

Madsen c Rafiq b Carver 10 (49-4)

Neesham c Ballance b Plunkett 29 (113-6)

Hughes.A c Rafiq b Bresnan 23 (144-8)

Poynton run out (Williamson) 13 (142-7)

Critchley b Bresnan 10 (153-9)

Cotton not out 0

Extras: fourteen

Bresnan 3-22

YORKSHIRE PHOENIX: 67 for three (off nine overs)

Lyth lbw b Critchley 30 (52-2)

Willey lbw b Madsen 8 (26-1)

Williamson run out (Hughes) 21 (61-3)

Root not out 5

Bairstow not out 3

Extras: none

YORKSHIRE PHOENIX win by one run via the Duckworth-Lewis method. YORKSHIRE PHOENIX two points, Derbyshire Falcons nul points.