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Your support makes all the difference.Yorkshire guaranteed themselves a place in the quarter-finals of the Benson and Hedges Cup, and a probable home draw, with an emphatic 184- run victory in their Group A match against the Minor Counties at Headingley yesterday.
Yorkshire scored 309 for 5 from their 50 overs with Anthony McGrath compiling a career-best 109 not out. Facing 85 deliveries, he struck three sixes and eight fours and dominated the closing stages with 79 of the 112 runs scored from the final 13 overs.
The openers Steve Dean and Wayne Larkins put on 63 from 13 overs but Craig White took three wickets in nine deliveries and then the last seven wickets tumbled for 20 runs.
An unbeaten century by the Australian left-hander Matthew Hayden guided Hampshire to their first win of 1997 at the 11th time of asking in all competitions. The battle to avoid the wooden spoon in Group C saw the county strugglers overcome the spirited challenge of the British Universities by seven wickets with nine balls to spare.
Set 285, Hayden finished on 120 not out with support coming from Giles White (56) and Robin Smith (45 off 44 balls) to secure a long overdue victory.
For the students, Umer Rashid hit 82 off 100 balls and Will House blasted 37 off 21 deliveries.
Jeremy Snape took 5 for 32, including three wickets in eight balls, to help Northamptonshire beat Leicestershire by 52 runs and join their victims as qualifiers from Group B.
Surrey's win against Sussex means that even if Gloucestershire reach their target of 240 against Kent at Bristol today they cannot reach the quarter-finals. When rain curtailed Gloucestershire's reply they had reached 25 without loss off 4.2 overs.
There was no play at Derby, Downpatrick or Glasgow.
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