AUSTRALIANS Darren Lehmann and Ian Harvey bid farewell to Yorkshire Phoenix with sparkling all-round performances to bring about a crucial totesport League win over Leicestershire Foxes at Grace Road.

Yorkshire triumphed by 34 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method for calculating rain-affected matches. It kept alive their chances of gaining promotion although they must still win their last two games.

Set a revised target of 180 after Yorkshire had made 177-8 in their 32 overs, Leicestershire struggled to 145 all out, their third consecutive defeat in the competition since winning the Twenty-20 Cup.

Harvey, sharing the new ball with Steve Kirby, made the first breakthrough by bowling Darren Robinson round his legs before Darren Maddy drove wildly at Kirby and was caught behind by Ismail Dawood.

Another wicket went down in Lehmann's first over as John Sadler played straight to Matthew Wood at short mid-wicket. An impossible single brought an inevitable run-out.

Lehmann struck again as Jeremy Snape chopped into his stumps and then Richard Dawson took the next three wickets to leave Leicestershire in disarray on 85-7 in the 23rd over.

Anthony McGrath chipped in by getting rid of Claude Henderson and Paul Nixon and after a last-wicket flourish between Charlie Dagnall and Mark Cleary, Harvey returned to have Cleary caught on the boundary edge.

Winning the toss, Yorkshire's innings was disrupted by a thunderstorm after only 14 deliveries but Harvey had already shown his intent with two boundaries and he continued to flay the bowling on his return in an opening stand of 56 in ten overs with Wood.

After a dismal season with Yorkshire, Harvey was determined to go out with all guns blazing and when Cleary came on he pulled his first ball for six and helped himself to two fours and a single in the same over.

Harvey had dashed to 37 off 30 balls with six fours and a six when he attempted to scamper a single and was run out by Sadler's direct hit on the stumps.

Wood fell to the next ball which he cut into Snape's hands at backward point and when Andrew Gale became another run-out victim Yorkshire wobbled on 74-3.

But they were pulled round by a 68 stand in 12 overs between Lehmann and McGrath, the pair of them preferring to work the ball into open spaces.

Although Lehmann was some way short of his best form, he kept the score moving and it was McGrath who was first to go for 27 off 34 balls when he drove Henderson high to Stevens.

Lehmann went on to complete his second half-century of the season in the competition but when he had got to 56 from 61 balls with four boundaries he marched down the pitch to Henderson and was stumped by Nixon.

Yorkshire lost quick wickets as they searched for late runs and Pyrah marked his first team debut by cutting the first ball he received for four and then showing all his stumps to Ottis Gibson, who duly knocked them over.

Updated: 11:19 Thursday, August 19, 2004