YORKSHIRE will face Glamorgan at Cardiff in the quarter-finals of the NatWest T20 Blast after beating Northamptonshire at Wantage Road last night.

The tie will take place on Thursday, August 11 after the Vikings won for the sixth time in their last seven Blast games as they defended their total of 177-5 to win by 14 runs.

York’s Jack Leaning smashed a career best 64 off 29 balls and captain Alex Lees 59 off 50 before Tim Bresnan was superb with 3-15 from four overs in defence.

Leaning and Lees shared exactly 100 in 8.3 overs for the fourth wicket to transform an innings which had got off to a sluggish start after Lees had won the toss.

Yorkshire, third in the North Group, were reduced to 63-3 after 10.1 overs, losing Adam Lyth, Northants old boy David Willey and Travis Head cheaply.

They only scored 34-2 in the first six overs with four boundaries before Leaning and Lees put their foot down.

Leaning hit all of his five sixes over long-on or mid-wicket, taking a particular liking to the wayward bowling of Rory Kleinveldt.

Lees posted his fourth T20 fifty and first in a year off 45 balls before Leaning, who has enjoyed a memorable last fortnight of batting against the white ball, reached the second of his career off only 22 balls.

Both men fell in the last nine balls of the innings.

Northants started their innings knowing they would need 159 to secure a top two finish in the group and home quarter-final tie ahead of Yorkshire given the net run-rate situation.

But they made a nightmare start by losing Josh Cobb lbw to Willey with the first ball of the innings and then, after a quartet of Ben Duckett boundaries, Adam Rossington to Bresnan in the fourth.

When Rossington miscued a catch to mid-off, Northants were 20-2.

Duckett continued his onslaught and had scored 41 by the time he reverse swept Azeem Rafiq’s sixth ball to short third-man, leaving the score at 46-3 after six overs.

Alex Wakely and Steven Crook both hit sixes in the first four balls of Adil Rashid’s second over, the ninth of the innings, but the latter was bowled off the last delivery of the over to make it 71-4.

The target became 101 more to win from the last ten overs and then 47 off five thanks to some lusty hitting from Alex Wakely in particular, who reached his fifty off 28 balls on his way to 64.

Wakely and Rob Keogh shared 66 in 7.2 overs for the fifth wicket to give their side hope.

But Willey bowled Keogh at the start of the 17th, leaving the score at 137-5 with 41 still needed.

With Wakely still there, the target became 29 off the last two overs and 18 off the last.

But Bresnan struck twice in the last, including removing the key man Wakely caught at long-on, as that target was comfortably defended with Northants seemingly happy to secure a home quarter.

Yorkshire could secure their second limited overs quarter-final place on Sunday when they travel to Durham for their penultimate Royal London one-day Cup group clash. A win would be enough for knockout place for the third year running in that competition.