The starting time for Yorkshire Phoenix's opening NatWest Pro 40 match against Leicestershire Foxes at Scarborough on Sunday has been brought forward.

It will allow both sides to leave North Marine Road earlier in view of their Twenty20 quarter-final games which take place the following day.

The match was originally scheduled to begin at 1.45pm but it will now commence at 12.30pm and end at around 6.10pm.

Leicestershire are at home to Kent Spitfires in the Twenty20 Cup but Yorkshire face the long trek to Chelmsford for their floodlit game with Essex Eagles, which starts at 7.10 pm.

The plan is to travel by coach straight to Chelmsford after the Scarborough match and then move on to the Rose Bowl on Tuesday for the Championship clash with Hampshire which begins the following day.

When this game concludes on the Saturday, Yorkshire will be driven to Cheltenham for the NatWest Pro 40 game with Gloucestershire Gladiators on Sunday, July 30, before returning home from their southern tour.