Nottinghamshire's record win streak is ended at Yorkshire
Yorkshire warmed up for this week’s Vitality Blast quarter-finals with an 18-run victory over North Group winners Nottinghamshire Outlaws as they defended a 194-target in a topsy-turvy clash at Headingley.
Opener Adam Lyth top-scored with 52 off 27 balls in a rollercoaster Yorkshire innings which finished on 193 all out, with Liam Patterson-White’s left-arm spin accounting for a brilliant three for 13 from four overs.
Nottinghamshire then started their chase brightly before slipping to 56 for four inside seven overs en-route to 175 all out in the 20th over. Joe Root struck twice in an over with his off-spin, while Jack Haynes and Dillon Pennington both hit 37.
Lyth crashed five sixes - four of them to the leg-side - as he raced to a fifty off 24 balls, by which time Yorkshire were 85 without loss early in the seventh over.
But Notts’ hit back strongly to reduce the score to 95 for three in the 10th.
Lyth and Will Luxton (38) fell, one lbw to Benny Howell’s seam and the other caught behind cutting Patterson-White’s. Benny Howell then had Root caught at short third off a miscue for two.
Pace off the ball helped the Outlaws get a grip of things, with Patterson-White later getting Moeen Ali caught and Matthew Revis lbw in the 15th over as part of a collapse which saw the hosts lose five for 17 to fall to 159 for eight in the 19th.
But two sixes in 28 off 16 from Logan van Beek helped Yorkshire take 34 off the last 11 balls.
Outlaws captain Joe Clarke then hit four of his first seven balls to the boundary, but he couldn’t go on and - for 23 - was one of four quick wickets to fall as the visitors slipped from 32 without loss to 56 for four.
Clarke miscued Hassan Ali to mid-off, while van Beek, Dom Bess and AJ Tye also struck. On a slower than usual Headingley surface, their task already looked a tricky one, and so it proved.
There was some brief fireworks from South African George Linde and Haynes, the former who contributed 25, before both fell to Root’s off-spin in the 12th over. Linde drilled to cover, Haynes was caught at deep backward square-leg.
And when Patterson-White was bowled by Jafer Chohan’s leg-spin in the next - 107 for seven - that really was that. Some lusty hitting from Howell (30) and Pennington just about kept the game alive before Tye twice and Hassan struck again to wrap things up.
Veteran Australian seamer Tye finished with an excellent three for 18 from 3.3 overs.