Toss & Conditions

Head-to-Head

Derbyshire have won 2 of the last 3 meetings with Yorkshire. In the most recent meeting last month, Yorkshire edged it by 2 wickets with 4 balls remaining in a one-run finish. The game turned on Yorkshire getting over the line in a tight chase rather than a comfortable margin. Across these three games, results have swung both ways, with Derbyshire taking two wins and Yorkshire snatching the latest thriller.

YOYorkshire 195/8

DEDerbyshire 194/4

2026-05-24 · YOR won by 2 wickets (with 4 balls remaining)

YOYorkshire 151/9

DEDerbyshire 157/2

2025-07-13 · DER won by 8 wickets (with 20 balls remaining)

DEDerbyshire 201/3

YOYorkshire 200/6

2025-07-06 · DER won by 7 wickets (with 16 balls remaining)

Derbyshire

Derbyshire are 14th in the T20B Regular Season on 8 points. Their last three have been uneven: one big win, then back-to-back losses where they fell short in chases. The most telling result is the defeat to Nottinghamshire after being set 184, where Derbyshire couldn’t finish the chase.

DEDerbyshire 173/9

NONottinghamshire 183/6

2026-06-07 · Target 184 runs

DEDerbyshire 173/10

ESEssex 179/5

2026-05-31 · ESS won by 5 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)

DEDerbyshire 234/4

NONottinghamshire 211/6

2026-05-29 · DER won by 23 runs

Yorkshire

Yorkshire are 4th in the T20B Regular Season on 16 points. Their last three swing from a 106-run demolition of Lancashire to two straight defeats, including a last-ball loss to Hampshire. The clearest signal is that they can dominate, but they’ve also been dragged into tight finishes and come out second recently.

YOYorkshire 150/10

HAHampshire 155/8

2026-06-26 · HAM won by 2 wickets (with 1 ball remaining)

YOYorkshire 135/10

LELeicestershire 147/8

2026-06-07

YOYorkshire 213/7

LALancashire 107/10

2026-06-05 · YOR won by 106 runs

Playing XI

Key Stats

Verdict

All four models favour Yorkshire, with the average at YOR 59% vs DER 41%. Bookmakers agree, pricing Yorkshire at 61% (1.57) vs Derbyshire at 39% (2.40). Key stats lean heavily to Yorkshire overall (6-1), driven by the broader season edge and stronger economy profile. Derbyshire’s counterweight is the recent H2H advantage, but Yorkshire’s overall numbers make them the favourite.

Revis’ last-over surge falls short

Matthew Revis’ 32-ball 69 threatened to steal it at the death, but the chase ended in a deadlock: Yorkshire finished 215/8 to exactly match Derbyshire’s 215/9. The decisive moment came in the 20th over, when the equation tightened to a single-ball verdict — Yorkshire couldn’t find the boundary they needed to go past, and Derbyshire couldn’t land the knockout blow to keep them short.

Derbyshire’s powerplay sets tone

The clearest swing came up front, when Derbyshire blasted 73/2 in the powerplay and forced Yorkshire into catch-up mode. That early acceleration, built around Wayne Madsen’s 62 off 33 and Martin Andersson’s 51 off 27, gave Derbyshire a platform that survived a messy finish: only 33 runs came in the last five overs as wickets fell and the innings stuttered. Yet those powerplay gains mattered because they left Yorkshire chasing a steep rate from the start.

Tye’s strikes, Madsen’s base

Andrew Tye’s 3/36 was the key reason Derbyshire didn’t run away with it; his wickets kept dragging the innings back just as it threatened to crest. Madsen and Andersson supplied the bulk of Derbyshire’s score at high tempo, but their death-overs slowdown left the door ajar. Revis then kicked it open with clean, high-risk hitting, yet even his acceleration couldn’t create separation — the final over became a scramble for parity, and that’s exactly where it ended.

Pre-match edge meets messy reality

Yorkshire arrived with the numbers in their favour — stronger season indicators and a better projected death economy — but this game flipped into a contest of timing and momentum. Their top order slipped to 53/3 in the powerplay, erasing much of that pre-match cushion, and the chase became dependent on one explosive stand to repair the damage. Derbyshire’s recent head-to-head confidence showed in how hard they attacked early, and the match turned into a late-overs shootout where a single ball decided only that it would be level.