Yorkshire were today meeting Leicestershire in the Benson and Hedges Cup for the first time in 15 years - and hoping for the same result as in their last encounter without cutting it quite so fine.

On that occasion, Yorkshire scraped home by just one run in a high scoring match at Grace Road.

Batting first Yorkshire reached 244 for five with Jim Love, now Scotland's director of cricket, hitting a powerful 90. In reply, Leicestershire just ran out of steam on 243 for nine, Paul Jarvis claiming three for 39.

Jarvis, incidentally, is the only player on either side still in active service, having moved on to Somerset after his spells with Yorkshire and Sussex.

Skipton-born James Whitaker was out for a duck in the 1985 match and he must now be thinking that actually playing was an easy game compared to his new job as Leicestershire's secretary and general manager.

With the season barely a few days old, Whitaker has found Grace Road to be a centre of controversy, Chris Lewis's allegations of bribery in the England ranks coming hard on the heels of spinner Matthew Brimson apparently exposing himself on the Wisden team photograph.

Altogether Yorkshire and Leicestershire have met four times in the B&H, most notably in the first final in 1972 when Yorkshire exile Ray Illingworth led the Foxes to a five wicket victory.

Leicestershire are a much-changed outfit this season with Alan Mullally, Paul Nixon, David Millns and Michael Kasprowicz among those having packed their bags, but Phil DeFreitas has returned to his old stamping ground and Yorkshire will have all on in keeping out Indian spinner Anil Kumble.

Yorkshire made some amends for the ten-runs defeat at the hands of Durham by beating Lancashire at Headingley on Sunday and they are just as anxious for a similar result today because they then face trips to Trent Bridge and Derby in their last two B&H group matches.

There only doubt was wicketkeeper Richard Blakey, who broke a finger in the game against Lancashire, but who has been named in the squad.

Yorkshire (from): Byas, White, Blakey, Lehmann, Vaughan, Wood, Fellows, Hamilton, Gough, Silverwood, Sidebottom, Hoggard.