Date-stamped : 25 Jun97 - 06:18
Gough snares hat-trick

By Andrew Collomosse at Headingley

Yorks (249) bt Ireland (53) by 196 runs

DARREN   GOUGH   produced   his best one-day performance to wreck
what at one stage seemed realistic hopes of an Irish  victory.  A
de-  structive  46 from 47 deliveries, which effectively took the
Yorkshire score out of range, turned out to be little  more  than
an  appetiser   to  the best figures by a Yorkshire bowler in the
competition.

After allowing himself a few minutes to savour  his  best  score,
the  England  fast  bowler tore the heart out of the Irish resis-
tance with seven wickets for 27 from 9.5 overs, bringing proceed-
ings  to  a conclusion with the first hat-trick by a Yorkshireman
in  the 34-year history of the 60-over event.

Ryan  Eagleson, Greg Molins and Paul McCrum  were  Gough`s  final
victims  as  Ireland  succumbed  to  the  lowest  score  recorded
against Yorkshire.

Any  prospect of a Yorkshire visit to  headquarters  this  autumn
looked  remote  as  a  splendid pre-lunch spell by McCrum reduced
York- shire to 55 for  six in the  19th  over.  After  a  bizarre
opening  over  by Ea- gleson, featuring four wides and the wicket
of Anthony McGrath, McCrum settled into  a 12-over   spell  which
earned  him  the  wickets  of  Martyn  Moxon,  Bradley Parker and
Richard Blakey for only 26 runs.

The recovery was underpinned by Craig White  and  Peter  Hartley,
who  added   100   for the seventh wicket before Gough arrived to
put on 79 in 12 overs with Hartley  and  take  the   game  beyond
Ireland`s reach.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)

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