Yorkshire got their Clydesdale Bank 40 campaign off to the worst possible start after an embarrassing defeat to the Netherlands at Headingley today.

A second batting failure in just three days was the main reason for the defeat to the minnows as the Tykes went down by just two runs in their opening match of the competition.

“I told the lads what I thought of the performance,” admitted captain Andrew Gale afterwards.

“Not acceptable, that is the bottom line.

“This is not the cricket that we want to be playing at the moment but it is important that we do not get too down.

“I do not want to come down on them too hard because it is only the end of April.”

It was only some late heroics from the Yorkshire lower order that even made the game close.

After restricting their opponents to just 190 from their 40 overs, it had looked like the Tykes were in control of the game at the half-way stage.

However, just 48 hours on from being bowled out for only 86 against Nottingham-shire in the LV=County Championship, the top order was again blown apart to leave the Tykes on 27-5 after less than ten overs of the chase.

This soon became 79-7 before Rich Pyrah and Bradford-born Adil Rashid came together at the crease to start an unlikely fightback.

They managed to add 68 runs for the eighth wicket until Pyrah fell for a one-day career best of 69 with just 16 balls left.

His innings helped Yorkshire to needing 44 to win off the last four overs.

With Rashid joined by Ryan Sidebottom in the middle, it soon became 19 from the final over.

Two lofty sixes from Sidebottom made it four needed off the final ball.

But that was as good as it got as the former England man could only find a fielder on the boundary.

The late disappointment masked a poor performance from the Tykes overall though, which was all the more frustrating after a bowling display that had looked like setting up a comfortable victory.

Two wickets and a run-out from Rashid helped reduce the Netherlands to just 112-7 at one stage before the visitors added 77 runs from their final ten overs to eventually post 190.

Shane Mott, who used to play for Scholes in the Huddersfield League, made 50 not out.

This gave them the momentum before Yorkshire’s poor performance with the bat helped hand the visitors a famous victory.