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Birmingham Bears beat Yorkshire by 6 wickets
Birmingham Bears and Yorkshire Vikings are looking for their first win of the season.
We predict that the Birmingham Bears will defeat Yorkshire Vikings.
Tournament: | Vitality T20 Blast, 2025 |
Format: | t20 |
Venue: | Edgbaston, Birmingham, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
Toss Prediction: | To Bat |
Weather: | 15.1°C|Patchy rain nearby |
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After the IPL concluded, cricket fans are now having their eyes glued to the Vitality Blast T20. Birmingham Bears will face Yorkshire Vikings at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 6th June from 11:30 pm onwards. Both teams have lost their first two games in the North Group and are currently placed at the bottom of the points table.
Bears played their last game against Durham at the same venue. Batting first, they scored 143 runs for the loss of 10 wickets after Sam Hain scored a needed 45 runs. Bears were in control during the chase by picking up Durham’s top order early. But they couldn’t capitalize on it and lost the game by three wickets. Ed Barnard, Moeen Ali, and Danny Briggs picked up two wickets each.
Yorkshire suffered a massive loss of 60 runs in their last game against Worcestershire. Bowling first, the Yorkshire bowlers leaked runs during the early innings. Dom Bess took two wickets to restrict Worcestershire to 201 for the loss of five wickets. In return, Yorkshire were reduced to 51 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. Bess then scored 41 runs to take the innings to 135.
Both teams played a highly crunched game in the last season. Batting first, Birmingham scored 214 runs for the loss of 7 wickets. Sam Hain scored 98 runs of 48 balls while Dan Moriarty picked up two wickets. Donovan Ferreira’s 66 off 32 balls with seven sixes went in vain as Yorkshire fell short by 4 runs. This was the Bears’ fifth consecutive win against Yorkshire in the Vitality Blast T20.
229/3 in 19.1 11.95
226/5 in 20.0 11.3
124/9 in 20.0 6.2
138/10 in 19.2 7.14
182/10 in 46.3 3.91
135/5 in 28.0 4.82
201/5 in 20.0 10.05
T20BLAST
Worcestershire beat Yorkshire by 60 runs
135/8 in 19.3 6.92
236/7 in 50.0 4.72
RLODC
Leicestershire beat Yorkshire by 8 wickets
153/2 in 19.4 7.78
176/8 in 20.0
VITALITY T20 BLAST 2023
Warwickshire won by 4 runs
180/7 in 20.0
200/6 in 20.0
VITALITY T20 BLAST 2023
Warwickshire beat Yorkshire by 34 runs
166/10 in 19.5
Skipper Alex Davies will open the innings with Tom Latham. Davies scored 43 runs in the first game. In the last season, he scored 240 runs at an average of 17. Latham is still adjusting to the Blast. He has 7 runs so far. Moeen Ali will come at number three. He scored 205 runs in 5 innings at a strike rate of above 160. He also picked up 5 wickets with the ball at an average of 12.
Sam Hain will come in the middle with Ed Bernard and George Garton. Hain has 137 runs (92 & 45) in the first two games at a strike rate of 177.92. He was their leading run scorer in the last season with 569 runs at an average of 63. He will be the batter to watch out for. Bernard has 78 runs at an average of 160 in the first two games. He has picked up two wickets with the ball. Garton, who had 13 wickets in the last season, is yet to open his wicket chart this season.
Danny Briggs will lead the bowling attack with Garton, Bernard, and Craig Miles. Briggs has 4 wickets in the first two games. But he is economically expensive. In the last season, he had 29 wickets in 15 games. He will be the bowler to watch out for. The Bears’ bowling attack has managed to take just 8 wickets in the first two games.
Key Players: Sam Hain, Moeen Ali, Danny Briggs.
Alex Davies (c & wk), Tom Latham, Robert Yates, Sam Hain, Kai Smith, Ed Barnard, George Garton, Danny Briggs, Craig Miles, Jake Lintott, Adam Sylvester.
Danny Briggs, Sam Hain, Jake Lintott, Dan Mousley, Alex Davies, Moeen Ali, Hasan Ali, Ed Barnard, Tom Latham, Kai Smith, George Garton
After almost chasing 238 runs in the first game, the Yorkshire batting lineup crumbled in the second. Adam Lyth will open the innings with former World T20I rank one David Malan. Lyth has 39 runs in two games. Malan scored 4 runs in the first game, followed by a duck in the second. He was their leading run scorer in the last season with 420 runs at a strike rate of 135. William Luxton will come in at number three. Luxton has scored just 1 run so far.
James Wharton will come in the middle with Harry Duke and Will Sutherland. Wharton and Sutherland scored 58 runs each in the first game. The middle-order scored just 5 runs in the last game, which resulted in Yorkshire crumbling to 51 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. Matthew Revis will come at number seven. He has 56 runs in the first two innings.
Dom Bess will lead the bowling attack with Sutherland, William O'Rourke, and Matt Milnes. Bess scored 45 runs in the last game. With the ball, he has 4 wickets at an economy of 7.71. He will be the bowler to watch out for. In the last season, he had picked up 12 wickets. Jafer Chohan is yet to pick a wicket after claiming 17 wickets in 10 innings in the last season.
Key Players: David Malan, Will Sutherland, Dom Bess.
Adam Lyth, Dawid Malan (c), William Luxton, James Wharton, Harry Duke (wk), Will Sutherland, Matthew Revis, Dominic Bess, Matt Milnes, Jafer Chohan, William O'Rourke.
Daniel Moriarty, Dawid Malan, Dom Bess, Harry Duke, Jafer Chohan, James Wharton, Matt Milnes, Matthew Revis, William Luxton, William O'Rourke, Adam Lyth
The weather in Birmingham is expected to be cloudy on match day, with temperatures ranging between 9 and 16 degrees Celsius. Winds will blow from the southeast at 10-26 km/h. The rain is expected. It is a bowling-friendly pitch. It is a paradise for both batters and bowlers as it offers balance in all innings. The wind will help the pacers swing the ball.
Pitch Condition
BalancedBatting Conditions
Moderate ScoringPace Bowling
Pace BounceSpin Bowling
Average TurnThe game will be played at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 6th June from 11:30 pm onwards. The stadium has a capacity of 2100 spectators and regularly hosts Vitality Blast games. It has hosted 60 Tests, 67 ODIs, and 27 T20Is so far.
In 27 T20Is games hosted here, results have favored the teams defending the target on 18 occasions. The average first innings score is 144. The team winning the toss should bat first.
The Birmingham Bears have five wins in the last five outings against Yorkshire. The Yorkshire playing eleven is currently out of form. On the other hand, the Bears have at least a good batting lineup. Sam Hain is in form. He has scored 98 runs in just 48 balls when the Bears played Yorkshire last season.
We predict that the Birmingham Bears will defeat Yorkshire Vikings.
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