Richard Gleeson denies Yorkshire in tied Roses thriller

Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Harry Brook both scored half-centuries during Yorkshire's chase but with one required off the final ball, Gleeson pinned Brook lbw to ensure the spoils were shared

Old Trafford: Lancashire 183-7, Yorkshire 183-5 - match tied

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Lancashire and Yorkshire played out a thrilling Vitality Blast tie as Richard Gleeson trapped Harry Brook lbw with one run needed for an away win at Emirates Old Trafford.

Yorkshire, chasing 184 to win a first Blast Roses game away from home since 2014, looked on course after Brook (72) and Tom Kohler-Cadmore (67), playing only his second game of the summer having suffered a concussion in the Pakistan Super League, shared 115 for the fourth wicket.

But fast bowler Gleeson trapped in-form Brook, who had posted his 10th fifty in 11 innings in all cricket this season, lbw playing to leg to send the 14,000 crowd wild.

Gleeson had been defending 13 off the last over and sealed a third tie in Roses T20 history.

Lancashire’s competitive 183 for 7 was underpinned by Phil Salt’s 59 off 41 after they had elected to bat.

Lancashire got off to a flyer, led by England’s Salt, who pulled seamer Matthew Revis over deep backward square-leg for his first of two sixes as 58 came in the first six overs of powerplay.

That six came in the fourth over, in which Revis also made the breakthrough by getting Keaton Jennings caught at mid-on (44 for 1).

^{Phil Salt impressed with a half-century on his T20 debut [Stu Forster/Getty Images]}

Yorkshire, for whom Adil Rashid was excellent with 1 for 29 from four overs, dragged things back as the halfway stage approached, though the Lightning remained in control at 81 for 2 after 10. Rashid had Steven Croft caught at long-off.

That wicket brought powerhouse Liam Livingstone, only just back from the IPL, to the crease.

Just before Salt reached his fifty off 33 balls, his England team-mate launched Revis over long-on and out of the ground.

Unfortunately for most of the crowd, Livingstone’s stay was only brief (23 off 16) as he holed out to long-on off Jordan Thompson as the score fell to 118 for 3 in the 14th.

At stages, it looked like the Vikings would do well to keep the Lightning below 200. And they did.

Salt was run out at the non-striker’s end as Tim David tried to pinch two to midwicket - 128 for 4 in the 16th.

Overseas debutant David, with a similar reputation as Livingstone for destruction, hit three leg-side sixes in 35 off 18 balls. But he holed out to hand Thompson a second wicket, a haul matched by Haris Rauf.

Adam Lyth (21) hit the first two balls of the chase, from Livingstone, for four, but Dawid Malan was caught behind pulling at Luke Wood as the score fell to 14 for 1 in the second.

Lyth continued his eye-catching start by hoisting Wood for six over long-on later in the over, only to be bowled by the left-arm pacer as the score fell to 42 for 2 in the fifth.

^{Harry Brook was once again among the runs but couldn't see Yorkshire to victory [Stu Forster/Getty Images]}

And when Joe Root (three) pulled Matt Parkinson’s third ball to Wood at deep square in the seventh, Yorkshire were in a spot of bother at 56 for 3.

They reached the halfway at 79 for 3, needing 104 more to win.

Brook had already pulled a full toss from Tom Hartley over wide long-on for six and hit Danny Lamb straight for another as Yorkshire got back on track at 100 for 3 in the 12th over.

The 23-year-old briefly overtook Kohler-Cadmore in the forties, only for a pulled six off Hartley to see the latter reach a 38-ball fifty - by which time Yorkshire were 128 for 3 at the start of the 16th. Brook reached his latest fifty off 33 balls an over later.

The Vikings needed 36 off three overs and 22 off two. But that was when things changed. Danny Lamb bowled a smart penultimate over, including Kohler-Cadmore run out, and conceded nine.

The last over mayhem then included a Shadab Khan boundary and a waist high full toss no ball. But Gleeson held his nerve.

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