CLYDESDALE BANK 40, Scarbrough:
Yorkshire 240-3 beat Northants 118 by 36 runs (D/L method)
Yorkshire 2pts
Match scorecard

Jacques Rudolph struck 83 from 78 balls with seven fours and a six

Yorkshire claimed a 36-run win over Northants on the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-affected Clydesdale Bank 40 game at Scarborough.

Jacques Rudolph's 83 and 77 from Anthony McGrath helped Yorkshire to a total of 240-3 from 30 overs.

The rain then intervened to leave Northants with a revised target of 154 from 16 overs.

But despite 69 from Rob White the visitors were bowled out for 118, Rich Pyrah picking up 3-18.

Initially chasing 245 from 30 overs, Northants saw opener Mal Loye yorked by Tino Best (2-25) before the rain came then, on the resumption, lost Stephen Peters and Andrew Hall to slip to 4-3.

White managed to keep their feint hopes alive, but when became the first of three men to succumb in Pyrah's third over, Northants' fate was sealed.

Earlier, Rudolph and Andrew Gale (35) plundered 39 from the first five overs of the game before the rain shortened the game for the first time.

When Gale fell to David Lucas (1-53), Rudolph combined with Adam Lyth (24) and McGrath in stands of 54 and 95 to give Yorkshire too many runs for the visitors to chase.

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