Nottinghamshire 209 for 9 won (Hines 50, Cliff 4-31) Yorkshire 181 for 6 (Wharton 52, Harrison 2-19, Fletcher 2-36) by 28 runs
Yorkshire’s vitality blast quarter-final hopes were dashed by North Group bottom side Nottinghamshire as the Vikings failed to chase down 210 in a must-win game at Headingley.
Coming into this final group match, Yorkshire will need to win and expect help from elsewhere. But they fell short of a goal in what would have been their highest successful chase in the history of the Bombers. 181 runs for the loss of 6 wickets and lost by 28 runs.
Yorkshire, opting to bowl, missed David Malan with a side pressure, but they got off to a good start when Cliff bowled captain Joe Clarke in the second over.
McCann and King then shared a fearless stand of 87 runs for the second wicket.
The left-handed McCann hit back-to-back sixes – an uppercut and another over long-on – and in the fifth over he hit a boundary off Jordan Thompson to take the score to 46 for 1.
King hit Zafar Sohan’s leg-spin for three sixes in as many balls, and 22 came in the ninth over. However, he chased a Thomson full toss to long-on as the Outlaws reached the halfway mark at 96 for 2.
Unfortunately, Makhan King suffered the same fate, caught in the deep trying to clear the ropes for a maiden fifty. Caught at long-on off Sohan in the 13th over.
Haynes reached his fifty in 20 balls, before the likes of McCann and King hit back-to-back sixes. The carefree Outlaws fell victim as spinner Don Moriarty cruised to 200.
Haynes and Tom Moores, for 30, were six wickets off the last 25 balls as Yorkshire stemmed the tide, including two from Cliff in the last over.
But their late good work with the ball went unrewarded as openers Will Luxton and Adam Lyth, and skipper Shaun Masood fell, leaving the chase reeling at 31 for 31 when Fletcher struck twice in the fourth over. Hold the Lith on the deep square leg and the Masood on the point.
Warden tried his best to restore things. He bowled Ally Stone for six over midwicket, but Harrison lost George Hill to the bowling of 88 for 4 in 10 overs.
Warden found a partner in Donovan Ferreira but was caught at long-on by Harrison as the South African hit two sixes in 22 runs. At 105 for 5 in the 12th over, Yorkshire felt the race was over.
So it proved. Wharton reached his fifty off 41 balls, but it was not enough as the Vikings squandered a golden chance to advance.
After he scored 132 for 6 in the 16th over and covered Fazalhaq Farooqui, the match moved towards a low-key conclusion. Thompson continued his good night with an unbeaten 50 off 29 balls as Fletcher saved 34 from the last over.
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