Manchester Originals captain Jos Buttler’s half-century went in vain as Harry Brooke and Adam Lyth helped Northern Superchargers to a six-wicket victory at The Hundred.
The names may be different, but the Roses rivalry remained red-hot as a team from Lancashire (Manchester Originals) took on Yorkshire (Northern Superchargers) at Emirates Old Trafford on Friday.
Originals captain Buttler scored 59 off 41 balls, including a six and five fours, before he was bowled by a googly from Adil Rashid as the hosts posted 161-4, their highest score in the tournament.
But Northern Superchargers thwarted it with six balls to spare as Lyth (51 off 30) and David Willey (29 off 21) took the lead before Brooke (33 off 19) and David Wiese (15 off six). The visitors chased down the total of 162-4 runs in 94 deliveries.
Brooke’s two sixes off original spinner Tom Hartley took the Superchargers just 12 runs in 10 balls were needed and Wiese soon hit a six and then a four off Australia’s fast Shaun Abbott.
The Superchargers got the better of the Originals in a completed team’s match against each other last season, slamming a hundred-record score of 200 during a riotous evening at Headingley, and they earned bragging rights here again. did.
In the originals’ innings, Butler found support from Wayne Madsen (43 off 26) and late cameos from Andre Russell (29 off 20) and Paul Walter (23 off 10) – Russell and Walter made three- Hit three sixes – while the Superchargers with the ball, Rashid conceded just 20 runs in as many balls and Willie took two wickets, which also included Phil Salt.
The Northern Superchargers’ run chase matched Rashid’s figures of 1-20 off 20 balls by fellow leg-spinner Matt Parkinson, with Willie later caught in the deep.