Nottinghamshire proceeded with their walk towards the Royal London Cup quarter-finals by beating Lancashire by four wickets in a strained conflict at Liverpool, their fourth win from five Group B matches.
The Outlaws limited the Lightning to a less than impressive 216 for 8 having welcomed them to bat on a testing yet a long way from outlandish batting surface.
Karl Brown top-scored for the hosts with 77 off 114 balls, yet Samit Patel's 3 for 31 from five overs of left-arm twist was key to a late innings falter.
Seamer Gavin Griffiths and off-spinner Arron Lilley then shared five wickets as Notts slipped to 146 for 6 in the 35th over of their pursuit, including James Taylor for 56 off 77 - his third progressive fifty.
In any case, their saints were seventh-wicket pair Chris Read and Brett Hutton, who hit 47 not out and 33 not out individually and shared 71 in 12 overs to seal the two focuses.
Prior, Lancashire lost five for 42 to slip from 162 for 3 in the 42nd over, with Jake Ball additionally taking 2 for 24 from eight.
The Lightning were on course for 240 or 250 with Brown and skipper Steven Croft in association for the fourth wicket. They shared 66 in 15 overs before withdrawing in progressive Patel overs.
Patel just came into the assault to bowl the 38th over and had Brown baffled in the 42nd and Croft got at profound square-leg in the 44th. He later had James Faulkner gotten behind off a top-edge.
Beside giving Brown two lives on five and 39, Notts' getting was great.
Notts lost openers Riki Wessels and Alex Hales (32), and also Brendan Taylor, inside eleven overs of their pursuit to 21-year-old Griffiths, leaving the score at 53 for 3.
Wessels was gotten at profound in reverse square-leg in the seventh over, Griffiths' to begin with, before Hales was splendidly gotten and played one-gave and Taylor got at mid-off in the space of three balls in the eleventh.
James Taylor and Patel (29) mutual 51 inside 12 overs to unfaltering the boat before the last discovered profound mid-wicket off Stephen Parry's left-arm turn in the 23rd over.
The objective turned out to be twofold figures in the 28th with Taylor surrounding his half-century.
At the point when Lilley had Steven Mullaney gotten at leg slip in the 31st and Taylor befuddled in the 35th, Notts were six down and still 71 shy of their objective.
Perused and Hutton, in any case, tranquilly saw their side home with a bit more than three overs to save.
Lancashire have now lost three of their initial five matches in this rival and practically need to win their last three to have any trusts of advancing through to the last eight.
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