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Reports from the ECB Reporters Network

North Group
Birmingham Bears put one foot in the quarter-finals of the Vitality Blast with a nervy four-run win over stumbling Yorkshire Vikings as the North Group leaders defended a total of 180-7 at Headingley on Thursday night. It was the Vikings’ third consecutive defeat, leaving their chances of qualifying for the quarter-finals hanging by a thread.
The Bears won for the eighth time in 11 games on the back of opener Rob Yates’ 66 off 51 balls and Dan Mousley’s career-best 4-28 from four overs of offspin in Yorkshire’s 176- ...