Gavin Hamilton boosted his chances of winning a place on England's winter tour to South Africa as he combined forces with Richard Blakey and Chris Silverwood to guide Yorkshire to a dramatic three wicket win over Nottinghamshire.

Yorkshire looked to have blown it at 43 for six as they chased a 144 target.

But then Hamilton (43no) and Blakey (20) refused to get tied down like the earlier batsmen had done and they opened out with some fine shots in a 68 stand in 14 overs.

Blakey's departure to a ball from former Yorkshire colleague Alex Wharf which knocked back his off stump seemed to have put Notts right back in the match but Silverwood launched a furious assault to smack 25 off 14 balls with two sixes and two fours.

The game ended in sensational style when Notts called up newly capped West Indian all-rounder Vasbert Drakes for the 44th over with Yorkshire on 122 for seven.

Silverwood smashed his first two deliveries for enormous legside sixes and took a single off the next to leave Hamilton to off-drive a boundary and run another single.

The final delivery was a full toss which Silverwood on drove for four to make it 22 runs off the over to win the match.

Yorkshire took 16 points from the game to consolidate their position in the top half of the championship table and their seventh win of the summer went a long way towards safeguarding them from a drop into the new second division next season.

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