YORKSHIRE'S NatWest T20 Blast hopes are hanging by a thread after a nightmare night across the Pennines in front of a packed Emirates Old Trafford, losing by 29 runs to Lancashire.

The Vikings were beaten by the rampant Lightning, who amassed a mammoth 231-4 and sent records tumbling having been invited to bat.

Lancashire's total was their competition record, the most Yorkshire have ever conceded in an innings and the joint ninth highest Twenty20 score ever posted in England, including international matches.

The visitors replied with a gallant 202-8 but they lost seven of their eight wickets to spin. Tim Bresnan top-scored with five sixes in his 51.

It was the highest-scoring Roses match ever, played out on a belter of a surface, and Yorkshire have now lost five of their nine group matches, only winning three. They have five still to play.

Yorkshire's bowling and fielding was forgettable against a home side dealt a pre-game blow with the news that Australian all-rounder James Faulkner had been charged with drink driving on Thursday evening.

The World Cup winner was suspended by the club and awaits disciplinary action from Cricket Australia.

Lancashire's innings included ten sixes, nine of which were scored by half-centurions Ashwell Prince and Karl Brown, and 19 fours.

Veteran off-spinner James Middlebrook was the best of a bad bunch of bowling figures with 0-33 from his four overs, while Rich Pyrah was uncharacteristically expensive in returning 1-52 from three overs.

Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Fisher and Aaron Finch were the other wicket-takers.

Pyrah left the field with a left knee injury in the latter stages of the Lancashire innings, having dug his knee into the turf at long-off while diving to save a boundary.

A 64-run opening partnership partnership between Andrew Gale and Aaron Finch, who made 35 and 33 respectively, kept Yorkshire's hopes alive in the first seven overs.

But they lost five wickets in five overs as the score slipped to 102-5 in the 12th over, with Finch, Maxwell, Andrew Hodd and Jonny Bairstow all falling to spin duo Stephen Parry and Steven Croft.

Finch was caught at long-off and Maxwell, for one, was caught behind off Parry in the seventh over to start the rot for the visitors.

Left-armer Parry finished with 3-29 from four overs, while off-spinner Aaron Lilley added 3-31 from his four, with the latter taking advantage of Yorkshire's need to play a shot a ball deep in the innings.

Bresnan hit a 23-ball fifty, the quickest of the match, and he shared an entertaining eighth-wicket partnership of 54 inside four overs with Middlebrook, who finished unbeaten on 29 off 14 balls.

It was some effort for Yorkshire to get above 200, having been 121-6 in the 14th over and 140-7 in the 16th. Unfortunately, it was of little consolation for the Vikings.

They have now lost both of their matches against Roses rivals Lancashire this season after last month's reverse at Headingley.

Yorkshire's next Blast match is against Durham under lights at Headingley next Friday.