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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malkoha2" data-source="post: 7811254" data-attributes="member: 275129"><a href="http://livelanka.net/index.php/news/sports/cricket/513-vass-again-success.html" target="_blank">Vass Again Success with the Bat with 53(39)  against yorkshire</a>                                                                               Saturday, 03 July 2010 17:54           <img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/118300/118380.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Vass 53(39) 4x6 6x2 37/1Late  Boje blast earns Northants tie    A  Yorkshire 180 for 3 tied with Northamptonshire 180  for 5 Former South Africa international Herschelle Gibbs'  first century in  Twenty20 cricket was not enough to earn Yorkshire a  win as Nicky Boje  somehow snatched Northamptonshire a tie at Wantage  Road. Gibbs hammered a magnificent 101 not out off 53 balls with his  explosive  knock including five sixes and eight fours, as Yorkshire made  an  imposing 180 for 3 off their 20 overs. Improbably, with  Northamptonshire  needing 13 off the final ball, Richard Pyrah's no ball  was clouted for  six by Boje over long leg with Gibbs' former South  Africa team-mate  smashing the following delivery through midwicket for  four to claim a  share of the spoils. Yorkshire won the toss and chose to bat first, but they got off to a  bad  start when, in the third over, Adam Lyth launched Chaminda Vaas to  Alex  Wakely at extra cover. Captain Jacques Rudolph made 14 before  chipping  Boje to Northamptonshire skipper Andrew Hall at extra cover. But Gibbs made it to 50 off just 28 balls as he continued to punish  the  Steelbacks attack. He and Anthony McGrath added 58 runs together  for the  third wicket before the latter, who made 16, hammered Lee Daggett to  David Willey  at long-on After his dismissal, the visitors really cut loose with Gibbs and   Jonathan Bairstow blasting 73 runs between them in the last five overs.   Bairstow smashed two sixes in consecutive balls off Vaas in the   penultimate over on his way to an unbeaten 32 off 14 balls, with Gibbs   claiming his century in the final over from 53 balls. Chasing 181, Northamptonshire openers David Sales and Vaas raced to  50  off just 27 balls as they took the game to the Yorkshire attack.  Former  West Indies paceman Tino Best finally made the breakthrough when  he  forced Sales, who was just one short of a deserved half-century, to  edge  to wicketkeeper Gerard Brophy. The in-form Vaas did make his 50, off 38 balls including two sixes,   before smashing Adil Rashid to Azeem Rafiq at mid-wicket. Elton   Chigumbura made 11 before launching Pyrah to Rashid at deep midwicket as   the wheels began to fall off the Steelbacks  chase. Two wickets by McGrath in the penultimate over threatened to seal   Northamptonshire's fate as O'Brien was caught by Lyth at long-off before   Hall smashed him to Pyrah at deep midwicket. But Boje struck a six and  a  four off the last two deliveries to claim an unlikely tie.</blockquote>

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