Durham Tyke heavy beating in Cup opener

YORKSHIRE were in ruthless mood as they crushed Durham by 142 runs in their opening match in the Royal London One-Day Cup.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore made a memorable first start for Yorkshire in the 50-over format as he scored a career-best 164, dominating the Durham bowlers with a number of impressive shots to the boundary.

The visitors’ total of 328 put the hosts under pressure and their batting line-up was not able to rise to the occasion.

Adil Rashid ripped through the lower order, claiming figures of 4-47 to guide his team to a comfortable victory.

Durham skipper Tom Latham said: “Tom Kohler-Cadmore played a magnificent innings.

“He cleared the ropes with ease but we did well to pull it back.

“In the end that innings took it away from us.

“It was a pretty good surface and they showed that when they were batting.

“The surface probably did a little bit more when we batted.

“Unfortunately it was one of those scores when you need everything to go to plan and losing a couple of early wickets never helps.

“Maybe we could have used the spinners a bit more through the middle overs. It is our first time out in white-ball cricket.

“I guess the beauty about this competition is the games come thick and fast and we have an opportunity on Sunday against Lancashire to put things right.”