Lilley’s reminder to pals at Yorkshire

ALEX Lilley came back to haunt former side Yorkshire by taking seven wickets for the MCCU Combined XI in a comfortable six-wicket win.

The 24-year-old from Halifax was previously on the books of Yorkshire and made one first-class appearance for them against Durham University in 2011.

But Lilley gave a timely reminder of what he could do against their 2nd XI by returning match figures of 7-102, as the unbeaten students picked up their second win of the season at Stamford Bridge.

Yorkshire won the toss and elected to bat first. But they were six down by the time they made it to three figures with Lilley accounting for Ryan Gibson, Mosun Hussain and Matthew Fisher to leave the County side struggling on 101-6.

Jack McIver was complicit in removing Yorkshire for 194, picking up figures of 3-30 and snaring the wickets of James Wainman, Jonny Read and Ben Coad.

The MCCU innings got off to an inauspicious start with Matthew Norris removed with just 11 runs

But the students stood firm with Hasan Azad (45) and Nitish Kumar (79) putting together a fruitful partnership.

Further down the order Basil Akram, who had scored prolifically early in the season for Loughborough at first-class level, made 51.

Alex Thompson (54) also added a half-century to help nudge the MCC total up to 298.

Lilley struck again early in the second innings, removing opener Harry Brook inside five overs, while Jack Grundy took 3-43.

Yorkshire were toiling on 95-5 when Lilley made Jordan Thompson his next victim.

He then cleaned out the tail by removing Karl Carver and Coad as the hosts closed on 203.

Needing 100 for victory the MCC got home with six wickets to spare, Steve Bullen (43) and Akram (37) knocking off the runs required following a stuttering start which had seen the students on 7-3.