Yorkshire Carnegie v Derbyshire Falcons: Brilliant Bosman rules and Yorkshire are pulped

Last night, however, there was a new variation with the architect of a humbling Twenty20 Cup defeat having honed his cricketing skills with Yorkshire CC in a South African township.

Loots Bosman, whose stunning 94 off just 50 balls ensured Derbyshire Falcons cantered to victory in the Leeds sunshine, grew up in Kimberley, where the locals were once so enamoured by a goodwill visit from Yorkshire legend David Bairstow that they named their newly-formed cricket club after his native county.

Clearly, the 'other' Yorkshire used those coaching lessons from 'Bluey' to good effect if Bosman, a Twenty20 specialist, is anything to go by.

So dominant was the Falcons opener's display, in fact, that Andrew Gale's men could do little to prevent being on the end of not only their highest total conceded in the competition's history but also a comprehensive 65-run defeat.

The only bright spot on an otherwise disappointing evening for Yorkshire was Clint McKay, the debutant claiming a four-wicket haul to suggest the Australian pace bowler will prove a useful signing.

McKay said: "I was happy with how I bowled but if you don't win then personal performances don't mean anything.

"It was disappointing but there are positives we can take into (today's game at) Worcester. What we have to remember is there are 16 games and a lot of things can change. There is no reason to be down-hearted and we have to get ourselves up for Worcestershire."

Bosman, ably supported by Chesney Hughes, gave Derbyshire such a strong platform that Yorkshire – watched for the first time by former batsman Michael Vaughan in his advisory capacity – were always chasing the game.

The home side had enjoyed a decent start with new signing McKay taking just five deliveries to claim his first wicket, Chris Rogers paying the price for mis-cueing straight to Gale.

Any hopes, however, that Yorkshire would be able to force home their advantage were soon dispelled as Bosman and Hughes set about a wayward bowling attack with relish.

South African Bosman, who tormented the England bowling attack in last year's Twenty20 series, set the initial pace and raced to a half-century from just 31 balls, a fierce drive to the boundary off Adil Rashid bringing up the milestone.

Hughes, clearly drawing inspiration from his partner, followed suit to reach 50 at an even quicker pace, from one ball less.

At this stage, the pair seemed on course to smash Derbyshire's previous record second-wicket stand of 149, set at Headingley two years ago by Greg Smith and Wavell Hinds.

In the end, the duo fell eight runs short with Bosman, in attempting to reach three figures with a particularly lusty hit, slicing Rashid into the hands of Jacques Rudolph at backward point.

Smith underlined his intent to maintain the pace by hitting the first two deliveries for four before Yorkshire finally regained a foothold in the game courtesy of three wickets in four deliveries from McKay.

First, Smith was caught at long-off by Richard Pyrah. Then, after the next delivery had been ruled to be wide, Hughes was the next to go when holing out to Herschelle Gibbs.

McKay completed his trio of dismissals the following delivery by finding the edge of Robin Peterson's bat, allowing Gerard Brophy to claim the catch.

Unfortunately for the hosts, the damage had already been done earlier in the innings with the final indignity coming off the final ball when the visitors passed the previous highest score posted against Yorkshire (221-3 by Leicestershire at Headingley in 2004).

Carnegie started their reply in determined mood with Rudolph smashing 30 runs from his first eight balls faced.

Soon, though, the Falcons had regained control with Rudolph chipping a delivery from off-spinner Wes Durston straight to Hughes.

Gale was then bowled by Tim Groenwald before a wonderful catch by John Sadler accounted for Anthony McGrath.

Gerard Brophy's attempt to quicken the pace saw the wicketkeeper stumped off Durston to leave Yorkshire struggling on

99-4 at the halfway stage.

Gibbs, like McKay making his debut, did provide some brief respite for the 5,100 crowd before being bowled by Smith for 36 from 28 balls to all but end Yorkshire's hopes of an unlikely win.

The final act came when Azeem Rafiq was caught by Hughes to give Smith his third wicket and leave Carnegie looking to bounce back today when they travel to Worcestershire Royals.

MAN OF THE MATCH

Loots Bosman

A truly stunning innings by the South African ensured Derbyshire were always in control.

His 94 came from 50 balls and included nine fours and six sixes.

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North Division

Yorkshire v Derbyshire

Headingley Carnegie: Derbyshire beat Yorkshire by 65 runs.

Derbyshire

L L Bosman c Rudolph b A U Rashid 94

C J L Rogers c Gale b McKay 1

C F Hughes c Gibbs b McKay 65

G M Smith c Pyrah b McKay 24

R J Peterson c Brophy b McKay 0

J L Sadler not out 31

W J Durston not out 0

Extras lb3 w2 nb2 7

Total 5 wkts (20 overs) 222

Fall: 1-10 2-151 3-189 4-190 5-190.

Did Not Bat: L J Goddard, P S Jones, T D Groenewald, G T Park.

Bowling: Patterson 4 0 39 0, McKay 4 0 33 4, Pyrah 4 0 45 0, A U Rashid 3 0 38 1, Rafiq 2 0 29 0, McGrath 3 0 35 0.

Yorkshire

A W Gale b Groenewald 10

J A Rudolph c Hughes b Durston 34

H H Gibbs b Smith 36

A McGrath c Sadler b Park 0

G L Brophy st Goddard b Durston 23

J M Bairstow c Durston b Park 16

A U Rashid b Smith 11

R M Pyrah b Peterson 16

C J McKay run out 2

Rafiq c Hughes b Smith 1

S A Patterson not out 3

Extras w3 nb2 5

Total (17.5 overs) 157

Fall: 1-38 2-46 3-53 4-96 5-123 6-124 7-142 8-153 9-153.

Bowling: Groenewald 2 0 28 1, P S Jones 2 0 26 0, Durston 4 0 29 2, Park 3 0 23 2, Peterson 4 0 32 1, Smith 2.5 0 19 3.

Umpires: R J Bailey and N G C Cowley.