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- Updated: August 28, 2016
Surrey 255 for 7 (Davies 104, Foakes 90, Waite 3-48) beat Yorkshire 236 (Bresnan 68, Meaker 3-61) by 19 runsScorecard
Yorkshire folk, so tradition has it, don’t much care for London. Dire warnings are issued that it’s £5 a pint, people run up escalators and that you are stared it suspiciously if you talk gratuitously to a stranger. As far as Yorkshire cricket is concerned, there must be strangers a plenty in London – they have still not managed to go there for a Lord’s final since 2002.
Surrey, finishing the season with a swagger, put Yorkshire in their place on their own Headingley midden by a 19-run margin and now face the winners of Monday’s semi-final between Warwickshire and Somerset with a chance to improve on last year’s agonising defeat to Gloucestershire.
Steven Davies’ carefree century, with Ben Foakes not far short, took Surrey to 255 for 7, a worthy effort, but manageable in easing conditions. But Surrey looked in control of this Royal London Cup semi-final from the moment that Stuart Meaker took 3 for 2 in nine balls – Jonny Bairstow, Gary Ballance and Jack Leaning all succumbing on a sluggish surface that gave Meaker, the fastest bowler on view, few advantages.
That Yorkshire remained in touch until deep into the game was down to the resolve of Tim Bresnan, who completed a productive batting summer in this competition with 68 from 82 balls, his resistance ending seven balls from time when he swung a full toss from Jade Dernbach to long-on. It was a composed effort from Bresnan, so calm in adversity that one imagines if war ever hit Pontefract he would first sit on a bench munching a bacon sandwich and see how it developed.
After briefly imagining the possibility of a treble, Yorkshire have now crashed out of both limited-overs competitions on successive weekends at the semi-final stage. Their semi-final record in List A cricket is particularly galling. “That statistic isn’t in our minds,” said Jason Gillespie, their coach, ahead of this tie. But the statistic exists, further swollen to 17 defeats in 20. Perhaps it …
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