Captain Andrew Gale believes Yorkshire may have to do it the unconventional way if they are to go on and win this summer’s t20 competition.

Gale has bemoaned the lack of a genuine big hitter in his squad following a patchy start to their campaign, which began with successive defeats but was picked up last week with successive wins.

Yorkshire are joint fourth in the North Division with games in hand on their rivals on five points from as many matches.

Their bid for a third win on the spin against Northamptonshire was wiped out due to the weather on Sunday.

Yorkshire have only scored one Twenty20 half-century so far this summer, and have only hit five sixes.

That is compared to leaders Nottinghamshire, who have six half-centuries and walloped 26 sixes from the same number of fixtures.

Gale said: “It’s still an area that’s of concern. We’ve got no-one really in the club apart from Jonny Bairstow who can clear the boundaries consistently.

“We haven’t really got an out and out hitter. You watch somebody like Abdul Razzaq, but we’ve not got anybody like that who can hit 6, 4, 6, 4. We haven’t got the funds to bring in an overseas player, so we have to work hard on it ourselves.”

Yorkshire’s next match is against Lancashire at Headingley on Friday.