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Belligerent Willey sets up overwhelming Yorkshire win
- Updated: August 11, 2016
Yorkshire 180 for 8 (Willey 79, Lees 36, Ingram 4-32) beat Glamorgan 90 (Rashid 4-26) by Scorecard
Yorkshire completed a quarter-final clean sweep for the North Group to join Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Durham on NatWest T20 Blast finals day at Edgbaston a week on Saturday.
On a good pitch, they seemed to have left themselves slightly vulnerable when their last eight overs added only 46 to a 12-over score of 134 for 3 but Glamorgan lost five wickets for 34 in the Powerplay, after which Yorkshire’s place in the semi-finals was all but guaranteed.
Jacques Rudolph, against his former teammates, offered a brief flurry of shots to keep the Cardiff crowd from going home embarrassingly early but as it was they were dismissed for 90 in just 13 overs, their lowest total of the season.
Adil Rashid arrived from The Oval to take four wickets for 26 but the performance of the night belonged to David Willey, whose 79 off 38 deliveries contained six sixes and ultimately underlined the disparity in terms of depth of quality that sets these sides so far apart, the one seeking to win a third County Championship in a row, the other at the bottom of Division Two.
Yorkshire have some momentum behind them now across all formats, their Championship campaign gathering pace and their hot streak in this competition continuing. Having offered little evidence that their problems mastering the shortest format were anywhere near being solved in the first half of the Blast season, when they won only one of their first seven matches, they now have seven victories in the last …
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