The best efforts of Bradfordian Adil Rashid were not enough to stop Yorkshire throwing away victory in the Friends Provident Twenty20 for the second time in three days, this time against Warwickshire.

Rashid bowled with an exemplary control of both line and length today to return figures of 2-20 and move level with Alfonso Thomas as the competition’s leading wicket-taker this summer on 23.

Warwickshire stuttered on to 155-8 as a result of his frugal leg-spin but the White Rose county were indecisive and strangely hesitant in reply and ended 35 runs away from christening the new Carnegie Pavilion with a victory that would have done wonders for their quarter-final hopes.

Both Neil Carter and Darren Maddy were quickly into top gear after the Bears had won the toss and opted to bat before Carter’s off pole was ripped out by an express delivery from Tino Best that was clocked at over 96 mph.

Spin would eventually help Yorkshire to apply the brakes but stand-in skipper Jacques Rudolph was regretting its introduction to the attack when Azeem Rafiq was brought on with the fielding restrictions still up and conceded 25 runs from his first seven balls.

But the youngster produced a good comeback in tandem with the excellent Rashid, who might have been scratching his head at again being usurped by James Tredwell in the latest England one-day international squad.

Richard Pyrah took three wickets to leave Yorkshire with an attainable victory target that was immediately chipped away at by Adam Lyth, who took six boundaries from the opening three overs.

But once he had feathered Steffan Piolet’s first ball to the wicketkeeper for 34, the whole innings subsided, with both Gibbs and Rudolph looking out of form and Anthony McGrath absent thanks to a persistent thumb injury.

Gerard Brophy – elevated to open the innings – was stumped charging Darren Maddy, Gibbs was twice dropped before losing his leg-stump looking to pull Imran Tahir, and Rudolph’s desperation at failing to time the ball ended with a tame reverse sweep straight to Carter.

Yorkshire managed a woeful 64 runs from the last 14 overs, and local frustrations in the West Stand were only amplified further when Best managed the only six of the reply in the last over with the match already lost.

Martyn Moxon’s men have no time to lick their wounds with the LV County Championship match against the same opponents starting tomorrow.