Patel blasts Outlaws to win

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Patel struck seven fours and two sixes to make a career-best unbeaten 84 from 57 balls as the 2006 runners-up maintained their impressive start to the group stages.

In front of 8,024 fans, Patel again demonstrated his enormous potential with a perfectly-paced innings, but the result could have swung to Lancashire if the 22-year-old had not been dropped on 69 by Stuart Law.

The visitors had been contained to 163-7 as Nottinghamshire kept things tight in the field, with Graeme Swann leading the way with two for 22 from his four overs.

Stephen Fleming invited Lancashire to bat after winning the toss, and although their openers Mal Loye and Sanath Jayasuriya both started brightly, they each fell just as they were getting going.

Top-scorer Gareth Cross provided some late momentum with 33 from 25 balls, including two fours and two sixes before being brilliantly caught by Gareth Clough at midwicket, who also caught Kyle Hogg off the last ball of the innings.

Meanwhile, Essex fell short by three runs after rain left them just five overs to reach a revised target at Kent.

The Spitfires were 44 for one after 5.1 overs when a torrential downpour brought a premature end to their innings at Canterbury.

After a delay of two hours and seven minutes, the Eagles were set 50 to win under the Duckworth-Lewis method but it proved just beyond them.