Head, Leaning tons as Yorks smash Leics

Yorkshire 376 for 3 (Head 175, Leaning 131*) beat Leicestershire 185 (Hill 55, Rashid 3-23) by 191 runsScorecard

Individual hundreds from Travis Head and Jack Leaning and a partnership of 274 – a List A record for the county – helped Yorkshire complete a third consecutive win in the Royal London Cup, keeping the Vikings firmly on course to reach the quarter-finals of this season’s competition.

Head hit 175 off 139 balls while Leaning finished unbeaten on 131 off 110 as Yorkshire recorded their highest List A total against another first-class county, beating the 352 for 6 made against Nottinghamshire in Scarborough in 2001. Their highest total, 411 for 4, was made against Devon in 2004.

Leaning, whose century was his first in List A cricket, said it had been a pleasure to bat with Head, in only his fourth match for Yorkshire, describing the 21-year-old as “a huge talent who will play a big part for Australia in the future”.

“It was also good to keep up our current form. Wins always breed confidence, and we can take this into a busy period of games,” Leaning added.

Having been asked to bowl …

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