No job too big for Yorkshire as they salvage one-day tie at Warwickshire
Yorkshire looked doomed when they fell to 33-4 chasing 271 for victory, and then pretty much dead and buried when they lost big-hitting David Willey to slip to 89-5.
But a sixth-wicket stand of 138 between Jonny Tattersall and Tim Bresnan revived their fortunes and ultimately helped them emerge with a tie.
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Hide AdBresnan hit 89 and Tattersall 79, and although there was disappointment that Yorkshire could not quite finish the job, the more appropriate emotion was pride in that they helped to rescue a seemingly lost cause.
When Tattersall fell to the final ball of the 45th over, bowled round his legs by Warwickshire captain/off-spinner Jeetan Patel, Yorkshire needed 45 from the final five overs.
It was always going to be tricky, with Patel bowling two of them, and when Bresnan fell to the third delivery of the 46th over, well caught by a diving Patel at cover off England’s Chris Woakes, it once again looked as though Warwickshire would win.
Adil Rashid, playing his 200th one-day game, holed out on the long-off boundary in the penultimate over, Patel’s last, as the equation came down to 10 needed from the final over entrusted to teenage quick Henry Brookes.
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