Yorkshire beat Durham in thriller

FRIENDS PROVIDENT TROPHY, GROUP C, Headingley:
Yorkshire 167-8 (49.2 ov) beat Durham 166 (49.3 ov) by two wickets (Yorkshire 2pts, Durham 0pts)

Yorkshire v Durham scorecard

Pyrah hit 42 not out from 49 balls to go with his three wickets

Rich Pyrah put in a fine all-round performance to help drag Yorkshire to a two-wicket Friends Provident Trophy win against Durham at Headingley.

Pyrah picked up figures of 3-23 as the visitors were bowled out for 166.

Yorkshire were struggling at 108-5 in reply when Joe Sayers was bowled by Ian Blackwell for 51.

Three more wickets fell, but David Wainwright (13) joined Pyrah (42) to share 37 for the ninth wicket and reach their target with four balls to spare.

The slender victory ends a run of three successive defeats for Yorkshire and keeps alive their hopes of making the quarter-finals.

After Durham won the toss, Rana Naved ul-Hasan had Kyle Coetzer caught by Jacques Rudolph for 11 before Pyrah removed Phil Mustard, Will Smith and Dale Benkenstein.

It was left to late-order contributions from Gordon Muchall (31) and Liam Plunkett (20) to carry the visitors to respectability as they were eventually bowled out in 49.3 overs.

Plunkett had Rudolph caught behind by Mustard off the first ball of the Yorkshire reply, before Sayers, first with Anthony McGrath and then with Adam Lyth took the score to 79-2.

Both Lyth and Sayers fell to Ian Blackwell (3-26) as Yorkshire lost six wickets for 51 runs, before Pyrah and Wainwright hauled them over the finish line.

BBC Newcastle's Martin Emmerson reviews Durham's defeat at Headingley:

"Alarm bells will be ringing among some of the Riverside faithful following Durham's latest defeat in the FP Trophy.

"The 2006 and 2008 semi-finalists and 2007 winners have lost their ability to score runs and 166 on a difficult pitch at Headingley was never going to be enough.

"Credit must go to the bowlers who did their best and almost pulled off an unlikely win.

"But the reality is Durham have served up some poor fare in the competition this season and the main worry is that they are about to take this one-day form into the Twenty20 Cup."