Imam slams second straight ton as Yorkshire win Roses battle, with his 117 giving his side a comfortable victory.
Imam scores 117 and helps make light work of Lancashire’s paltry total of 294.
Thanks to a second consecutive century from in-form international opener Imam-ul-Haq, Yorkshire, the leaders of Group B, maintained their perfect winning start to the Metro Bank One-Day Cup this season as they defeated Lancashire by seven wickets at Clifton Park in York after a confident chase of 295.
The Red Rose, who had won one game and had the other washed out, lost to the White Rose, who had won three straight.
A sell-out crowd of 4,500 watched Lancashire produce a 294 for 7 total, partly because to an entertaining opening 102 off 88 balls from Michael Jones.
However, Imam, who scored 117 off 124 balls, was the mainstay of Yorkshire’s response. He and Will Luxton, who scored 77 off 63, shared a decisive 153 for the second wicket.
Imam has scored 331 runs, including 10 fours and five sixes, making him the top run scorer in the One-Day Cup this season. In last Friday’s triumph over Northamptonshire, he scored a career-high 159.
Rose Jones, a former Red Rose who was born in Ormskirk, scored his first century after returning from Durham during the winter. With Jones reaching a fifty off 33 balls and leading Lancashire to 100 for one in the 18th over, Lancashire got off to a strong start.
Jones blasted one arrow straight off Ben Coad’s seam and hit three sixes over long-on and long-off before losing George Bell lbw when playing to leg against two-wicket seamer Jack White, 43 for 1 after seven.
Pulling Bailey for his third six to complete his most recent hundred off 118 balls, Imam was caught at midwicket on the pull against Arav Shetty’s spin (220 for three in the 37th). He scored List A hundreds in back-to-back games for the fourth time in his career.
Revis and James Wharton completed an uninterrupted fourth-wicket stand of 75, each scoring 41.