Yorkshire’s latest Friends Life t20 clash with Nottinghamshire at Scarborough today was abandoned after just 14 overs of play.

Both sides remain joint top of the North Division with seven points from five matches, with the White Rose county’s next outing coming against defending champions Leicestershire at Grace Road on Wednesday.

Notts were well placed at 105-3 when the second band of rain proved terminal, the umpires calling the match off at 5pm.

England Lions skipper James Taylor had reached 41 not out off 33 balls, including four fours, while Australian Adam Voges added 29 and Chris Read an unbeaten 15. Ryan Sidebottom, Mitchell Starc and Moin Ashraf took the wickets.

Taylor looked dangerous as he added to sixes hit by Rikki Wessels off Sidebottom and Read off Ashraf. The sixes came in the third and 13th overs, which both went for 17.

“Notts are a good side, top of the table with us, and it would have been really nice to have had that test,” said first-team coach Jason Gillespie, who not for the first time this season lamented the weather.

“It’s incredibly frustrating. But, unfortunately, that’s something we have zero control over.”

After stand-in captain Azeem Rafiq had invited the visitors to bat, Yorkshire made the ideal start when Sidebottom bowled Michael Lumb through the gate with the third ball of the match before Wessels chipped Starc to Phil Jaques at mid-wicket in the fourth over, leaving the score at 27-2.

Taylor shared 45 in seven overs for the third wicket with skipper Voges to keep the scoreboard ticking, but Voges then punted Ashraf down Joe Root’s throat at long-on to fall at the start of the tenth over before the first of two rain showers arrived.

Play resumed after approximately 20 minutes, and Read was quickly into his stride with the six off Ashraf. Their hundred came up in the 14th over, but play was halted for good pretty soon afterwards.

Gillespie added: “I was reasonably pleased. I thought we bowled quite well.

“They had a couple of batsmen who are quite destructive and played their shots.

“By and large, I thought we fielded well.

“There were a couple of fumbles but I’d rather that with the guys attacking the ball rather than sitting back.”