da pinup bet： Michael Vaughan hit his first one-day century to send Yorkshire cruisinginto the Benson & Hedges Cup semi-finals at Taunton
Richard Latham23-May-2001Michael Vaughan hit his first one-day century to send Yorkshire cruisinginto the Benson & Hedges Cup semi-finals at Taunton.A contest with Somerset that promised much, with five current Englandplayers involved, eventually proved one-sided as the Tykes skated to theirvictory target of 211 with eight wickets and 13.2 overs to spare.The result never looked in doubt once man-of-the-match Vaughan had won hisearly battle with Andy Caddick, who finished with the sorry figures of 1-57from his ten overs.Vaughan hit 15 boundaries in reaching an elegant century, sharing anunbroken third-wicket stand of 140 with Darren Lehmann, who reached hisfifty with the winning hit, and going on to make a chanceless 125 not out.By the end Somerset looked a bedraggled unit. Yet they had started the matchpromisingly, despite the early loss of Marcus Trescothick to his Englandcolleague Darren Gough.Skipper Jamie Cox, who had elected to bat first in glorious sunshine, lookedin fine form coming in at number three, hitting two sixes and five fours in his62.Cox had added 108 with Peter Bowler for the second wicket when hooking aslow full toss from Lehmann straight to Michael Lumb at long leg.It proved a turning point in the match. Although Bowler reached ahalf-century off 91 balls, the rest of Somerset’s batting was woefully weakagainst some tight Yorkshire bowling and fielding.Darren Gough finished with the excellent figures of 1-18 from his ten overs,while Ryan Sidebottom was also a model of accuracy in taking 2-34 from histen as the home side slumped from 131-1 to make only 210-7.Afterwards Somerset coach, Kevin Shine, tipped Yorkshire as likely Cup winners.”If they play like that, with Darren Gough opening the bowling and Vaughanand Lehmann providing the batting strength I would be surprised if they don’t dovery well in this competition,” Shine said.”That’s probably the best I have ever seen Vaughan play and they will have tohave a serious look at him with regards to international one-day cricket if hecan play like that. He never looked like he was in trouble and he hit the gaps at will.”Man of the match Vaughan admitted that his one-day record to date has not done him justice.”I was probably not regarded as a one-day player until recently and rightlyso. My record for Yorkshire is not great,” Vaughan said.”I have batted everywhere from one to seven and this year is the first time Ihave been told that I will open. Once you know what you are going to do it’squite easy to plan. I’ve tried to be positive in the first 15 overs and go onand get a big score after that.”If you look to bat a full 50 overs you should score 100. Obviously this wasa bit different as everything seemed to hit the middle of the bat. I seemed toscore a lot of boundaries and it doesn’t always happen that way.”Ask the Yorkshire lads and they will tell you I do play my shots but therehave been certain situations with England, especially when I started, where itwas necessary to save the match.”I know I can play all the shots, it’s just picking the right balls. But for England I will bat anywhere. You can’t be too picky!”