YORKSHIRE'S Friends Life t20 campaign finished on a high as Ben Sanderson inspired an easy eight-wicket win over Derbyshire at the County Ground.

The county’s hopes of qualification for the quarter-finals were ended earlier in the week.

And it means that, having only won six out of 16 North Division fixtures, they have now failed to make it beyond the group stages for four successive summers.

But at least they bowed out with a performance to remember as Sanderson, in only his second first-team match of the summer, took 4-21 to restrict the hosts to just 127-7 after Luke Sutton had won the toss.

Opener Joe Sayers then top-scored with 43 off 38 balls in reply as Yorkshire coasted to their target with 12 balls to spare, Adam Lyth hitting the winning runs to finish 41 not out off 32.

Sanderson, 22, bowled full and straight, trapping Greg Smith lbw, getting Chesney Hughes caught behind, bowling Jon Clare and getting Ross Whiteley in identical fashion.

The seamer, who suffered a perforated appendix in March, could have even had a hat-trick after getting Hughes and Clare with successive deliveries in the 16th over to reduce the score to 93-6.

The hosts had made a bright start thanks in the main to New Zealand opener Martin Guptill, who scored 46 off 39 balls.

But he was hampered by a leg injury, forcing him to bat with a runner for the latter stages of his innings.

Credit should also go to Rich Pyrah, who could have had a hat-trick himself after he got Wayne Madsen caught at long-on by Lyth and bowled Guptill as he attempted to repeat an earlier straight six. He finished with 2-19, while Tim Bresnan also struck.

Andrew Gale and Martyn Moxon resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes to their side, instead opting to use this as preparation for Sunday’s return to Clydesdale Bank 40 action against Middlesex at Headingley.

They were given permission by England to field Bresnan ahead of next week’s first Test against India, for which the squad is announced on Sunday morning.

He came in for Adil Rashid, while Joe Root replaced Gerard Brophy from the 11 that beat Durham at Scarborough last Sunday.

In reply, Gale raced out of the blocks, scoring the first 23 runs of the innings on a pacey pitch.

He took 18, including four boundaries off the second over, bowled by Mark Turner.

This allowed him and fellow opener Sayers to accumulate ones, twos and threes, knowing the hard work had been done.

When he was trapped lbw by the left-arm seam of Whiteley for 30, Yorkshire were 52-1 after six.

Sayers, who found the fence four times, also fell lbw to the left-arm spin of Hughes with 33 needed from seven overs.

An innings of seven off 16 balls from Root made the contest closer than it should have been, but Lyth finished things with four fours in the 17th over off Steffan Jones.