Yorkshire Vikings v Warwickshire: Patel and Hain put on show that rocks Vikings

Instead of The Harry and Meghan Show, it was The Jeetan and Sam show, not quite so celebrated, perhaps, but no less compelling for aficionados as Messrs Jeetan Patel and Sam Hain steered Warwickshire to a five-wicket win.

On a day when there were plenty of youngsters present for Yorkshire’s Junior Vikings Day (who says that the younger generation are not attracted to cricket?), Patel took 4-33 in Yorkshire’s 247-9 after they chose to bat.

Then it was over to Hain, a 22-year-old born in Hong Kong to British parents and raised, for the most part, in Australia, who struck an unbeaten 102 from 110 balls with 12 fours, his seventh hundred on only his 31st one-day appearance.

After Yorkshire captain Steve Patterson won the toss, openers Adam Lyth and Tom Kohler-Cadmore gave their side a flying start.

At Chester-le-Street last Friday, the pair plundered 80 for the first-wicket from 12.4 overs as Yorkshire set the foundation for a 142-run win against Durham in their opening match in this year’s tournament.

Yesterday the pair plundered 80 from 12.5 overs against a Warwickshire team who had lost their opening game at home to Derbyshire by 57 runs.

Once more it was electrifying stuff from the dynamic duo, Lyth and Kohler-Cadmore matching each other blow for blow as they took full advantage of good conditions.

Both were strong on the drive and on the pull, with Warwickshire serving up too many boundary options as Yorkshire raced along to 62-0 from 10 overs.

Kohler-Cadmore, fresh from a career-best 164 on his Yorkshire one-day debut at Chester-le-Street, pulled the 18-year-old medium-pace of Henry Brookes for six and soon had another maximum when he launched the 20-year-old pace man Aaron Thomason over long-on, the ball making a resounding thud when it crashed into advertising hoardings in front of the old pavilion.

Lyth also cleared the ropes when he pulled another delivery from Brookes in powerful fashion, but Yorkshire’s early momentum was checked by the loss of both openers in the space of three balls.

First Kohler-Cadmore was caught by a diving Olly Stone at backward-point as he tried to drive through the offside and then Lyth went lbw sweeping the off-spin of Jeetan Patel.

Harry Brook, 19, showed a confidence beyond his tender years when he got off the mark with a lofted off-drive off Patel towards the North-East Stand.

Another punishing stroke followed when Brook danced down the track to smash Thomason fiercely straight past him for four.

But a promising cameo ended when he tried to cut a ball from Stone that was too close to him and was caught behind, Yorkshire slipping to 149-6 inside 30 overs when Patel nipped in with another three wickets.

The Warwickshire captain had Jack Leaning and Adil Rashid caught behind before bowling Andrew Hodd through the gate when he charged down the pitch, Yorkshire not playing Patel with the same canniness that the man himself displayed.

Yorkshire needed a partnership of some kind and were grateful for a seventh-wicket stand of 55 in 13 overs between Pujara and Tim Bresnan.

Bresnan lofted his former international team-mate Jonathan Trott for an impressive six over long-off before falling to a catch behind when he advanced down the track in an effort to hammer Keith Barker.

Pujara fell three overs out when he tried to steer a chest-high delivery from Stone to third-man only to edge to wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose, who duly claimed his fifth catch of the innings.

Yorkshire lost their ninth wicket to the final ball when Patterson was run-out by a direct hit from Patel at cover as he tried to scamper a run off Brookes, James Wainman ending unbeaten on 18, an innings that included a stunning Jos Buttler-esque ramped six off Thomason.

Ed Pollock gave Warwickshire’s reply a flying start with five boundaries in an innings of 26 from 21 balls, including 10 off the opening over from Bresnan, whose first three overs went for 25.

Trott and Hain combined in a stand of 87 in 19 overs before Trott was run out following some fine work from Bresnan at deep cover, Trott perishing as he tried a second run after his first took him to a 71-ball fifty.

A collector’s item followed when wicketkeeper Hodd dropped a catch, reprieving Ian Bell on four off Wainman, but Bell managed only one more before Wainman had him brilliantly held by Kohler-Cadmore diving full-length to his left at slip.

At 134-3 in the 27th over Yorkshire were still in it, but Hain and Adam Hose (44) added 97 in 14 overs to make the closing stages seem like a royal procession.