A THRILLING 74 off only 32 balls with 13 fours and two sixes from Ian Harvey seemed certain to bring Yorkshire an easy victory as they chased a 171 target in their Twenty20 Cup match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.

But they lost wickets and made hard work of their two-wicket win.

The runs dried up to bring Notts back into the match and Yorkshire were left needing 24 from the last four overs with four wickets in hand.

The tension increased when Ismail Dawood was run out and when the last over arrived Yorkshire still required a further three runs.

Craig White could do nothing with Andy Harris's first two deliveries and he slapped his third straight to former Yorkshire batsman Steven Fleming at mid-wicket.

Richard Dawson struck his first ball over the top towards the third man boundary for two to level the scores and he then guided the penultimate delivery wide of the wicket-keeper for four to win the match by two wickets.

Yorkshire made hard work of what should have been an easy victory.

Yorkshire put Notts in and Tim Bresnan quickly had them in trouble with a wicket in each of his three overs, including Fleming to a brilliant catch on the cover boundary by Richard Pyrah who jumped high to grab the ball and then somehow managed not to fall over the rope.

Matthew Hoggard had been hit for consecutive sixes by Fleming in the previous over but he performed much more tidily than in the Roses match and four overs cost 29.

Chris Read, with 43 from 35 balls, held Notts together and he was helped by former Yorkshire second teamer Gareth Clough, who hit 23 off 13 deliveries.

Man-of-the-match Harvey and Michael Lumb got Yorkshire off to a whirlwind start with Harvey smashing everything in sight.

He lashed Harris's first ball for six and followed up with a boundary as 15 came off the over.

Greg Smith's first over was even more expensive as Harvey plundered three boundaries, all to different parts of the field, and sandwiched a six high over cover.

The runs continued, Lumb blasting a six and two fours off Smith to charge Yorkshire on to 52 without loss in the fourth over and the score stood on 60 when Samit Patel deceived Lumb into driving a catch to David Hussey for 21 from 13 balls.

Harvey needed only 18 balls for his half century which contained nine fours and two sixes and came out of 92 for one but he lost fellow Australian Phil Jaques to Patel without addition, and his end came in the tenth over when he was caught immediately after flogging Graeme Swann for three consecutive fours.

Yorkshire looked to be cruising it at 121 for three but Anthony McGrath played a loose stroke to be caught on the cover boundary and the quick dismissals of Matthew Wood and Pyrah left them on 135 for six with only five overs to go.

Dawood kept a cool head and hit a couple of crucial boundaries before he was unluckily run out at the non-striker's end but the early onslaught from Harvey left Yorkshire sufficiently close to their target to scrape home.