Lancashire Lightning suffered a devastating batting collapse to register their heaviest defeat in List A cricket against rivals Yorkshire Vikings in the One-Day Cup, slumping to a 242-run loss after they were bowled out for 84 inside 18 overs.
A miserable effort with the bat saw the hosts lose ten wickets for just 45 runs, as Yorkshire achieved their biggest margin of victory in this format. Adam Lyth scored his second century in the space of two days for Yorkshire, backing up his 125 against Northamptonshire with a career-best 136 from 92 balls, an innings that included 12 fours and 7 sixes.
Yorkshire made 325/7 in 47 overs, with Duckworth Lewis adjusting Lancashire's target to 327, but a calamitous run-chase handed the Vikings their second victory in two days. Martin Guptill raced to 45 from 25 balls, hitting David Willey for consecutive sixes, but his departure at 53/2 signalled a capitulation of monumental proportions.
Lyth carried his good form with the bat into the Roses match, as he and captain Alex Lees added a fifty partnership in just 34 deliveries. The foundation of Yorkshire's innings proved to be the relentless approach taken by Lyth, who hit Nathan Buck for back-to-back sixes in only the second over of the match.
Lancashire leaked runs inside the first six overs, as Lyth lofted Buck for a third maximum before the rain arrived, with Yorkshire making steady progress at 61/0 after 6.1 overs. The hosts made a breakthrough soon after the resumption, removing Lees (20) when he was caught and bowled by Jordan Clark (1-37), but a stand worth 111 runs between Lyth and Kane Williamson (40) compounded Lancashire's lowly position in the match.
Lyth raced to a 28-ball fifty with five fours and three sixes and the boundaries continued to come easily for the fearless Yorkshire opener, as he and Williamson added a fifty-partnership in 45 deliveries. His fourth six came when he advanced down the wicket to Steven Croft, with his next maximum taking him to 94 from 59 balls.
His century against Northants, which came up in 60 balls, helped Yorkshire to register their first win of the competition yesterday and Lyth followed his match-winning innings with another devastating contribution, although in reality the extent of Lancashire's failure made his mammoth score somewhat superfluous.
Back-to-back centuries came for Lyth in 64 deliveries and he showed no sign of relenting after reaching three figures, hitting his sixth maximum when he lofted Clark straight for six to help register the hundred-partnership with Williamson in 86 balls. The dangerous New Zealand batsman had gone unnoticed during Lyth's onslaught, but his silent accumulation of runs had taken him within touching distance of a half-century, as his stand with Lyth entered dangerous territory.
It was therefore vital that Luke Procter's direct-hit saw the back of Williamson at 176/2, as the Kiwi fell for 40 after this superb piece of fielding. Lyth progressed to a new career-best in List A cricket after Alviro Petersen shelled a simple chance on the boundary, tipping his effort over the rope to gift Lyth a life and his seventh six.
Liam Livingstone (3-51) ensured that this mistake did not prove too costly, forcing Lyth to pick out Karl Brown on the long-on boundary, although in hindsight the Yorkshire opener had done more than enough to see his side to victory. Gary Ballance (34) and Adil Rashid (13) followed in quick succession to hand Livingstone strong figures on a turning wicket, one that would offer Yorkshire's more accomplished spinner ample assistance later on in the match.
David Willey relieved the small amount of pressure that was beginning to build after the flurry of wickets, hitting Livingstone for two sixes in successive overs during his cameo of 21 from 20 balls, but he fell to Stephen Parry (1-50) at 283/6, rewarding the left-arm spinner for his economical contribution when he bowled the dangerous all-rounder.
Buck returned to collect the wicket of Tim Bresnan (10), but his tight death bowling could do little to improve the complexion of his figures, as he finished with 1-61 after making a strong start to the campaign. Yorkshire posted a strong total of 325/7 and Lancashire's revised target of 327 from 47 overs proved to be entirely too much for them, as ten wickets fell for the addition of 49 runs.
Guptill started the response strongly, hitting three sixes during his innings of 45 from 25 balls, but his contribution was the only one to reach double figures. The Kiwi opener capitalised on being dropped by Karl Carver on 29, after Petersen had been caught behind by Andrew Hodd off Bresnan (2-22), as he his Willey for consecutive sixes in the seventh over.
A lengthy delay to retrieve the ball following the second of these sixes was followed by a perfectly executed yorker by Willey (3-44), as Yorkshire claimed the prized wicket of Guptill before he could reach his half-century. After this a monumental collapse saw Yorkshire record a 242-run victory, as Lancashire were bowled out for 84 inside 18 overs.
Karl Brown (7) chipped Bresnan to Lees at 64/3, sending Jos Buttler in for a much-needed maiden century in limited-overs cricket for Lancashire, but his three-ball duck strengthened Yorkshire's grip on the game, as he fell four balls after Brown, edging Willey behind to Hodd. Willey collectd his second wicket in as many deliveries when Steven Croft guided his shot into the hands of Williamson at point, as Lancashire lost their fifth wicket for the addition of 26 runs.
The introduction of spin saw Livingstone stumped off Rashid (2-10) for six, before Carver collected career-best figures of 3-5 in three overs to remove any chance of a lower-order revival. Procter (1) chipped Carver to Lees at 68/7, the seventh wicket to fall for 29 runs and Clark (4) followed in Carver's next over when he was bowled by a delivery that gripped and turned inside Clark's defences.
Carver's third victim in as many overs arrived when Parry advanced down the wicket and was stumped by Hodd for nine, the second-highest score of the innings, before Buck was the final wicket to fall for a duck in the next over, bowled by Rashid to resign Lancashire to their biggest List A defeat.
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