A Captain's Innings

The Vikings made it an impressive two wins out of two, over Midlands opposition, in the encouraging early stages of the 2015 Twenty20 Blast. The visiting captain, Andrew Gale, not only won the toss, but then proceeded to steal the show with a captain's innings of 68 not out. Gale, who probably by his own admission, blows hot and cold (if you can excuse the pun) needs to produce more such efforts from the top of the order, if his county are to collect one-day silverware. At least he has laid down a confidence-boosting marker for himself.

Having asked the Outlaws to bat first, the away team could take great satisfaction from only conceding three extras to such a dangerous team. Even Andrew Hodd kept Galey good company in their opening partnership of 61. Meanwhile the debutant Glenn Maxwell chipped in with a characteristic twenty off only twelve deliveries. Unfortunately young Fisher could not repeat his five-wicket heroics from the previous Friday and instead was scalped for twenty-two runs off two overs. Such are the slings and arrows of one-day cricket! The scores were as follows:

Nottinghamshire Outlaws versus YORKSHIRE VIKINGS; at Nottingham; Friday the 22nd of May. YORKSHIRE VIKINGS won the toss.

Nottinghamshire Outlaws: 143 for seven (off 20 overs)

Wessels c Fisher b Bresnan 13 (19-1)

Smith c Plunkett b Pyrah 27 (75-3)

B.Taylor c Fisher b Plunkett 8 (31-2)

Patel c Bairstow b Rashid 41 (112-5)

J.Taylor c Bairstow b Plunkett 3 (80-4)

Mullaney run out(Maxwell) 38 (143-7)

Wood run out(Bairstow) 8 (128-6)

Gidman not out 2

Extras: 3

YORKSHIRE VIKINGS: 146 for four (off 18.5 overs)

Gale not out 64

Hodd c J.Taylor b Patel 22 (61-1)

Lees c J.Taylor b Mullaney 2 (70-2)

Bairstow c B.Taylor b Mullaney 10 (92-3)

Maxwell c Mullaney b Wood 20 (127-4)

Leaning not out 9

Extras: 15

YORKSHIRE VIKINGS win by six wickets. Nottinghamshire Outlaws 0 points, YORKSHIRE VIKINGS 2 points.

CURRENT LEAGUE STANDINGS:

Durham 4 points from 2 matches

YORKSHIRE 4 points from 2 matches

Nottinghamshire 2 points from 2 matches

Leicestershire 2 points from 2 matches

Lancashire 2 points from 2 matches

Warwickshire 2 points from 2 matches

Worcestershire 0 points from 1 match

Derbyshire 0 points from 2 matches

Northamptonshire 0 points from 1 match