YORKSHIRE’S cricketers were left frustrated afternoon after rain brought a premature end to their opening match against Gloucestershire in the Royal London One-Day Cup at Scarborough.

Replying to the home side’s barely adequate 227 all out in exactly 50 overs, a total which owed much to a ninth-wicket stand of 57 between Tim Bresnan and Steve Patterson, Gloucestershire’s openers had made just 5-0 off two overs when the weather closed in from the south-west.

Each side took one point from the game on a day when very little 50-over cricket could be played across the country.

However, the visitors could argue that the balance of the game favoured them when the rain arrived and Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie was critical of his top-order batting as he watched the rain fall on North Marine Road.

“The batting was disappointing,” he said. “Five of our top six got starts and someone needed to go on and get a major score. Our top order have to take responsibility and I hope that’s an area where we will improve in the next game at Derby.

“We could have scored anything if one of those players had gone on but from 151-8, it was a fantastic effort to get to 227.

“And while I don’t think we scored the runs we should have scored, I would have backed our bowlers to give it a good shake and it was frustrating that we didn’t get the opportunity to win the game."

Analysis of Yorkshire’s innings confirms Gillespie’s characteristically shrewd and honest assessment.

On a wicket offering Michael Klinger’s bowlers plenty of bounce, none of the top six could score more than Glenn Maxwell, whose 33 included three fours and a straight six.

However, having been caught off a no-ball and then dropped in the 19th over of the innings, bowled by James Fuller, Maxwell was caught by Geraint Jones, the fielder who had spilled him, off the very next ball. Fuller then bowled Jack Leaning first ball in the same eventful over to leave Yorkshire on 82 for four.

Earlier, Alex Lees had made 14 and Andrew Gale 16 before the pair were caught behind by Gareth Roderick off Fuller and Craig Miles respectively.

Gary Ballance and Will Rhodes attempted to repair the innings with a fifth-wicket stand of 46 but Ballance was caught behind by Roderick off Kieran Noema-Barnett for 31 when attempting to guide the medium-pacer backward of square on the off side.

Miles took the next three wickets in 11 balls. First Rhodes, who had batted promisingly for 32, was superbly caught at slip by a diving Klinger. Then Andrew Hodd and Liam Plunkett fell to successive balls, Hodd being caught at cover by Tom Smith for seven and Plunkett feathering his first delivery to Roderick.

Bresnan and Patterson then added those vital 57 runs inside 11 overs before Patterson was leg before to Smith for 24.

Bresnan went on to make 43 off 55 balls, an innings including three fours and two sixes, before he was caught by Chris Dent at deep midwicket off slow left-armer Tom Smith off the final ball of the innings. The impressive Miles finished with 4-29 and Fuller 3-45.