Durham fall to their first defeat in this year’s One Day Cup as Yorkshire run out as winners by seven wickets in York.
The White Rose bowled Durham out for 165 inside 49 overs before chasing – despite falling to five for two – to ensure a fourth win in five Group B games.
Durham are still well placed with three wins from four. But this wasn’t their best day as seam-bowling Bens, Cliff and Coad, were outstanding for Yorkshire with four for 38 and one for 19.
Will Rhodes top-scored with 31 for Durham before unbeaten fourth-wicket partners James Wharton and Sam Whiteman shared 97 and contributed 68 and 52 respectively.
This was a good toss to lose for Yorkshire, who took advantage of some early assistance to reduce their visitors to 15 for three and later 42 for four when Ben Stokes fell caught on the reverse sweep for 12 against the Indian overseas left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav.
Kuldeep finished with two wickets alongside fellow spinner Dom Bess.
Earlier, Alex Lees feathered George Hill behind driving, Emilio Gay lost his middle stump to Coad and Graham Clark miscued Cliff to mid-on as Durham lost three early wickets.
Coad bowled five maidens in a fabulous seven-over new-ball spell, which was then followed by Yadav and home captain Bess striking as the score became 121 for seven in the 37th over.
Bess had Will Rhodes caught and bowled for 31 before Kuldeep trapped Colin Ackermann lbw for 26.
While Rhodes and Ollie Robinson (19) shared 33 for the fifth wicket from 42 for four, last pair Luke Robinson with 17 not out and Shafiqullah Ghafari shared the next best partnership of 29.
Stokes took the new ball and removed Will Luxton caught behind in the second over of Yorkshire’s chase following successive centuries.
Luke Robinson then trapped Adam Lyth lbw in the next to raise Durham hopes before, with sunshine having now replaced the morning cloud, Wharton and Will Bennison advanced Yorkshire’s cause by sharing 65.
Bennison played nicely for 36 before playing on against Ghafari’s leg-spin – 70 for three.
Stokes was driven and worked for boundaries by Wharton, who found another partner in the more experienced and fluent West Australian Whiteman.
Wharton reached his fifty off 97 balls, Whiteman his off 52, by which stage Yorkshire were all but home and hosed.