Four wickets on debut for Jack Brooks, and a partnership worth 84 between Alex Hales and Colin Munro, couldn’t prevent Notts Outlaws falling to an eight run defeat against Yorkshire Vikings in the Vitality Blast at Trent Bridge.

Chasing 183 for victory - a target set, in large, due to 95 from Dawid Malan - Hales amassed his second half-century in as many games, with Munro falling four short of notching his second of the season, too. 

Montgomery added a industrious 28 but the Outlaws were unable to usurp the Vikings total.

Malan led the charge for the visitors with his 56-ball showing, and despite only Shan Masood offering long-lasting company for the England opener as Brooks ran riot, the dearth of supporting acts mattered little to the visitors who collected their first win of the competition.

Having elected to bat, Malan and Lyth both saw their edges beaten in the opening exchanges as Shaheehn Shah Afridi found movement in the air, but the former opened his boundary account with a carved four off Carter.

Brooks, though, had his, and Notts’, first wicket when Lyth attempted to heave his second successive six, instead skying to Carter at short fine, and his second two balls later as Luxton top edged to Colin Munro at mid-wicket. 

Shan Masood joined Malan for the rebuild, and struck sixes off Mullaney and Montgomery to bring up the pair’s fifty partnership in 34 deliveries. 

Malan continued unperturbed despite the loss of Masood to Montgomery, and Wiese to Patel for the left-armer’s 200th T20 wicket, slapping Carter for a straight maximum in the closing stages. 

He watched on, too, as Revis and Afridi departed within the space of three balls to Brooks and Afridi respectively, before he hauled the former for another straight six to finish unbeaten. 

In reply, Joe Clake fell to the seam of Wiese, skying to Tattersall after driving handsomely for four but Munro and Hales - who became the first Englishman to reach 11,000 T20 runs - combined to steady the ship, reaching 48/1 by the end of the Powerplay. 

The pair mixed considered accumulation with power hitting to maintain a required rate of around 10 runs per over, with Hales bludgeoning eight fours in his 30-ball fifty.

His demise came in the 13th over when he cut Wiese to Luxton at backward point, but Montgomery took up the mantle, with two cutely placed fours and a pulled six in his first seven deliveries. 

As a climactic end neared, Munro clubbed Thompson to Masood at long on for a well-made 46 and momentum swung the way of the Vikings. 

20 from the final over became 12 from three when James planted Thompson into the Hound Road stand, but for the Outlaws to fall narrowly short with Moores unbeaten on 15 and James 11.