Picture by Naomi Baker/Getty Images. Matthew Revis at the crease en-route to his stunning T20 career best 69 not out.
SCORECARD
Derbyshire Falcons v Yorkshire, Vitality Blast, North Group, Sunday June 28, 2026, 2.30pm, Queen’s Park, Chesterfield.
Toss: Yorkshire won it and elected to bat.
Teams – Derbyshire: Aneurin Donald c/w, Martin Andersson, Yousaf Bin Naeem, Matthew Montgomery, Wayne Madsen, Ross Whiteley, Amit Basra, Nick Potts, Ben Aitchison, Akif Javed, Sufyan Moqim.
Yorkshire: Adam Lyth, Jonny Bairstow c/w, Will Luxton, Sam Whiteman, Moeen Ali, Matthew Revis, George Hill, Faheem Ashraf, Hassan Ali, AJ Tye, Dan Moriarty.
Match Summary: Matthew Revis’s stunning 69 not out off 32 balls with five sixes helped Yorkshire gain 17 runs off the last over from Pakistani pacer Akif Javed as they replied to Derbyshire’s 215-9 with 215-8.
The White Rose had seemingly been dead and buried at 95-5 in the 12th over and were on the ropes again at 172-8 after 17 overs. They were effectively nine wickets down because George Hill couldn’t bat having suffered heart palpitations in the field. He only bowled two overs.
Anthony McGrath said Hill wanted to bat, was feeling fine but they did not want to go against medical advice.
Yorkshire have now won four, lost three and tied one, taking two points from their eighth game. They have dropped to second place in the North Group courtesy of Nottinghamshire’s win over Leicestershire at Grace Road.
The White Rose ended a run of eight successive T20 defeats at this ground.
Hassan Ali and AJ Tye struck three times apiece for Yorkshire, but Derbyshire were fired by 51 off 27 balls from opener Martin Andersson and Wayne Madsen’s 62 off 33.
Faheem Ashraf’s 40 off 17 balls was also key to the revival, with him sharing 67 inside five overs for the sixth wicket with Revis.
Pictire by Naomi Baker/Getty Images. Dan Moriarty consoles Matthew Revis after the 24-year-old showed immediate frustration after hitting a single off the last ball. But what an innings. This was certainly two points gained from the position Yorkshire were in.
Report: Despite the loss of two wickets, Aneurin Donald and T20 debutant Yousaf Bin Naeem for 16 and 20 respectively, Derbyshire advanced at a healthy pace, reaching 73-2 after the six overs of powerplay.
Donald, Andersson and Bin Naeem all cleared the boundary rope at the fast-scoring Queen’s Park.
Donald fell to George Hill, expertly caught by Hassan Ali running in from deep mid-wicket, before Hassan himself had Bin Naeem caught behind off an inside-edge.
Andersson then took on the lead role, and by the time he reached a 25-ball fifty Derbyshire were 103-2 in the 10th over. And by the time the 10th over was completed, the Falcons were 116-2, with 18 coming from Dan Moriarty’s left-arm spin, including four fours in the over and three in succession from Wayne Madsen.
On pitch with good pace and a lightning fast outfield, it was obvious pretty early that Yorkshire would be in for a sizeable chase.
Faheem Ashraf broke the Andersson-Madsen alliance, which contributed 69, when a slower ball had the former caught at mid-off for 51 – 126-3 in the 11th over.
AJ Tye then had Matthew Montgomery caught at deep mid-wicket shortly afterwards but Madsen really put his foot down. He reached his fifty off 27 balls and took five fours off Moeen Ali in the 14th over as the score moved to 165-4.
That became 178-5 in the 16th when Matthew Revis uprooted an attacking Madsen’s middle stump for 62.
Revis later had Amit Basra caught at deep mid-wicket before Ross Whiteley, for 36, miscued Hassan up to Revis running around from mid-off and Ben Aitchison was caught at deep mid-wicket as the Pakistani struck twice in the 19th over.
Tye also claimed his third wicket in the final over as Yorkshire really put the brakes on, taking four wickets in the last three overs for the addition of only 17 runs.
Having struggled to hold a consistent line through the majority of the innings, Yorkshire recovered impressively.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Faheem Ashraf contributed a late 40 at Chesterfield today to help Yorkshire avoid defeat.
But, unfortunately, the White Rose lost openers Jonny Bairstow and Adam Lyth in the opening four overs of their chase, which slipped to 24-2.
Bairstow pulled the second ball of the chase from the part-time spin of Montgomery out to deep square-leg before Lyth miscued a pull at Pakistani overseas left-arm seamer Akif Javcd to mid-off.
Amidst that, Will Luxton started nicely.
He lofted Montgomery and Aitchison for early sixes. But, having hoisted two more over deep mid-wicket off the seam of Nick Potts, he miscued to cover later in the over as the score fell to 53-3 after six. Luxton had contributed 46 of them.
From then, it was always going to be an uphill battle.
Pakistani left-arm wrist spinner Sufyan Moqim then bowled Sam Whiteman as the score reached 78-4 after 10 overs.
Further damage came when the same bowler had a pulling Moeen caught at deep mid-wicket – 95-5 in the 12th over.
Faheem and Revis then took the target down to 55 off the last fours at 161-5 with a blistering spell of hitting, including 38 off 15th and 16th overs combined from Andersson and Javed. Andersson even bowled a nine-ball over.
Three sixes came in that spell.
But just when Yorkshire looked like they had a real chance, they lost three wickets in the 17th over from Aitchison, with Faheem for 40, Tye and Hassan all holing out at either wide long-on or long-off as the score fell to 172-8.
The target then became 37 off two overs, with Revis still there on 33.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com. Will Luxton hit a quick-fire 46 from number three as the White Rose chased 216.
He later took 17 off the last over from left-armer Javed, including two sixes down the ground and over mid-wicket. With two needed, he drilled a single to mid-off.
Revis and Dan Moriarty shared 43 unbroken for the ninth wicket, with the latter contributing five.
Magic moment: The 15th and 16th overs of Yorkshire’s chase, which yielded 38 runs combined, including three sixes. Faheem Ashraf and Matthew Revis attacked against Martin Andersson and Akif Javed, taking the score to 161-5 after 16. It gave Yorkshire a chance of victory, which they just fell short of. But two points when none seemed on the cards could be vital in the final reckoning.
Turning point: It has to be the last over. With 18 needed, the over went Dot, Six, Two, Two, Six, One. Revis threw his bat in frustration after scrambling the last-ball single. But what an innings.
Stat of the match: No side has ever chased more than 198 to beat Derbyshire in T20 cricket. Yorkshire hold that record, at Leeds in 2005.
What they said – Matthew Revis: “I probably still haven’t really processed it all.
“Throughout my innings, obviously as we lost more wickets, it kind of freed me up a little bit more. Then obviously when Mozza came in as well, it was almost like nothing to lose kind of stuff.
“The frustrating part is the fact that we got so close and couldn’t quite get over the line.
“We also gave ourselves the best chance in probably the last six overs of the first innings as well. Obviously the first 10-12 overs didn’t go our way, and that’s what this ground’s like. It can be quite very fast-scoring.
“We did very well to drag that back in the last six overs and even give ourselves a fighting chance.
“As he was running in (Akif Javed, last ball), I was thinking, ‘Just hit it as hard as I can, flat’.
Picture by Naomi Baker/Getty Images. Wayne Madsen top-scored with 62 for the Falcons.
“Obviously, if I try to hit that for six and get caught, then we lose. If I just hit it flat, you can hit a gap with a fast outfield, they might fumble it and you can always try and scamper back for two. But it was probably deserving to be a tie in the end.”
What’s next: Yorkshire have a few days of rest now. They are back in action against Durham at Headingley on Friday evening (6.30pm). That’s part of a double-header day with the county’s women, who face Somerset from 2.30pm.