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-scoring with five sixes in his 51.

It was the highest-scoring Roses match ever and Yorkshire have now lost five of their nine matches, only winning three, and they have five 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.

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 as many overs as the score slipped to 102-5 in the 12th over, with Finch, Glenn Maxwell, Andrew Hodd and Jonny Bairstow all falling to spin duo Stephen Parry and Steven Croft. Parry finished with 3-29 from four overs.

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