102 not out off 57 from Finlay Bean gave Yorkshire a commanding win over Durham in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup, as Durham went down by 212 runs at Scarborough.
Left-handed Bean, batting at five, boosted the Group B leaders to a 354 for seven total with a destructive 102 not out off 57 with eight fours and six sixes. James Wharton also contributed a dynamic career best 84.
Durham then crumbled to 142 all out in 36 overs, losing their fourth game in seven to all but end their knockout hopes. New-ball seamer Jack White returned three for 24 from eight overs for the hosts.
Inserted Yorkshire started solidly under an overcast sky on a pitch with pace and bounce, reaching 99 for two after 20 overs.
Openers, Imam-Ul-Haq and Adam Lyth, fell. Imam was caught behind pulling at Ben Raine’s seam for 22 – his lowest score in five One-Day Cup matches – and Lyth caught at deep backward square-leg for 37 following a top-edge against former team-mate Will Rhodes.
Having reached 123 for two after 25 overs, Will Luxton and Wharton looked to accelerate, and did so for a period as they shared 88 in entertaining fashion.
Luxton pulled Ben Raine for six over deep backward square-leg and Wharton also pulled with authority en-route to a 54-ball fifty.
Almost immediately afterwards, Luxton – on 46 – miscued the pace of Sam Conners to midwicket with the score on 169 in the 33rd.
But that only served to bring Bean to the crease, and what followed was sensational. He shared a 101 stand for the fourth wicket with Wharton.
Wharton fell short of his own maiden List A hundred as the White Rose scored 174 in the last 15 overs.
Durham’s chase then got off to a nightmare start at nine for two in the fifth over, which included two wickets for Ben Coad’s seam and the visitors failing to score off the first 22 balls of the innings.
Coad bowled Alex Lees for nought and had Emilio Gay caught at second slip but walked off the field immediately after the second wicket with a suspected hamstring injury.
Durham’s race was run before it had got going, with them sinking to 32 for four in the 10th over.
Matt Milnes had an uppercutting Colin Ackermann caught behind and White forced captain Ollie Robinson to miscue to Bean at point.
George Hill and captain Dom Bess then removed Scott Borthwick and Robbie Bowman before Durham reached 50.
Rhodes and George Drissell were Durham’s only two batters to reach 20, with 27 and a consolatory List A best 46 respectively.
Rhodes was caught at short third off Lyth’s off-spin before Drissell skied White to mid-on, leaving the score at 131 for nine. White finished things off by trapping Codi Yusuf lbw.
Durham host Warwickshire on Sunday in their final Metro Bank One Day Cup fixture at Banks Homes Riverside, starting at 11am.