Notts Outlaws will face Surrey in this week’s Vitality Blast quarter-finals after finishing top of the North Group despite an 18-run defeat to Yorkshire in a topsy-turvy clash at Headingley.

Liam Patterson-White’s left-arm spin accounted for a fine 3/13 from four overs as Notts doused an early Yorkshire charge to dismiss the hosts for 193 from the final ball despite opener Adam Lyth’s 52.

Jack Haynes and Dillon Pennington both contributed 37 in reply, but the White Rose were ultimately able to squeeze the visitors out as the innings eventually totalled 175 all out.

Notts had displayed the kind of strong character that had brought them eight successive wins as they overcame a difficult powerplay to reduce the hosts to 95-3 in the tenth over.

Lyth had crashed five sixes as he raced to a fifty off 24 balls, by which time Yorkshire were 85 without loss, before Benny Howell put the visitors on the board by pinning the veteran lbw.

Will Luxton then fell for 38 to a Tom Moores catch, becoming Patterson-White’s first scalp in the process, and Howell then struck again to get the big wicket of Joe Root for just two.

Pace off the ball continued to help the Outlaws, with Patterson-White later getting Moeen Ali caught and Matthew Revis lbw in the 15th over.

That formed the bulk of a collapse which saw the hosts lose 5/17 to fall to 159-8 in the 19th, only for Logan van Beek to give the White Rose a finish to take them to their eventual total. 

Outlaws captain Joe Clarke then hit four of his first seven balls to the boundary, but was unable to maintain his momentum as he was caught off Hassan Ali.

Fireworks from South African George Linde and Haynes, the former contributing 25 and, in the process, passing 3,000 T20 career runs, kept the Outlaws alive.

However, when both fell to Root’s off-spin in the 12th over, the visitors’ task became more difficult, and Patterson-White was then bowled by Jafer Chohan.

Some lusty hitting from Howell (30) and Pennington ensured the hosts wouldn’t have things all their own way and kept the game very much alive into the latter stages.

Despite that, seamer Tye finished with 3/18 as he and Hassan wrapped things up, though the Outlaws’ record-breaking winning run had already seen them lock in top spot.

It was then confirmed later in the day that the Outlaws would be facing Surrey on Wednesday in what will be a first home-quarter final in five years.