YORK CC captain Daniel Woods has praised the club's strength-in-depth as the chase for silverware hots up.

The men from Clifton Park visit Hull tomorrow buoyed by a double success last weekend.

Victory over Castleford last Saturday closed the gap on Hunters ECB Yorkshire Premier League North leaders Harrogate - whose ten match winning run was ended by Driffield Town - to seven points.

Less than 24 hours later, York had reached the final of the Black Sheep Yorkshire Champions Trophy courtesy of victory over Yorkshire Academy.

Woods said: "We were pleased with the result against Castleford and happy with the way we played - but we were even more pleased with our win over Yorkshire Academy.

"We had a lot of important players missing but those who stood in showed that we have a really strong second team and people are ready to step up if needed."

All-rounder Liam McKendry grabbed the headlines - hitting 87 off 97 balls - but Woods also singled out wicket-keeper Finlay Bean who made an impressive first team debut, aged just 14, as stand-in for Tom Brookes.

Tomorrow, York welcome back seven players who missed the Yorkshire Academy game including Brookes, Duncan Snell, Chris Booth, Joe Ashdown, Alex Collins, Nick Kay, and Richard Love.

Woods says the game is not only an opportunity to keep pressure on Harrogate but also a chance to make amends for an under-par performance when Hull won by four wickets on May 14.

"We are looking forward to it. They beat us when we played at Clifton Park so we will be especially up for it," he recalled. "We didn't have a great day and they played well so we know we need to be on it."

Hull's team includes Indian slow left arm bowler Shivil Kaushik, 21, who plays for Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League.

"Last week was a good week for us. We can't control what Harrogate do, we are just thinking about what we need to do."

Harrogate host strugglers Dunnington.