CRICKET: Flintoff's thunder stolen by Harvey.

Byline: JUSTIN GOULDING

IAN HARVEY'S love affair with the Twenty20 Cup continued at Headingley as Yorkshire registered a second Roses victory of the season.

If Lancashire's Andrew Flintoff brought a size able Headingley crowd to its feet with a barnstorming 85 off 48 balls, Harvey rose the roof thanks to an even more brutal display of bats manship in a comfortable eight-wicket win for the Phoenix.

The Australian, returning from almost two months out with a hamstring injury, blazed 16 fours and two sixes in his unbeaten 108, which occupied only 58 deliveries.

Last season he became the first player to reach three figures when he made 100 not out for Gloucestershire against Warwickshire.

Harvey's partnership of 108 for the second wicket with Phil Jaques was the centre piece of Yorkshire's pursuit of 169, a target reached with 13 balls to spare. The result not only lifted Yorkshire level on points with their bitter rivals in the northern section, but compounded Lancashire's misery at losing the Cheltenham & Glouces-ter Trophy quarter-final last month.

Harvey's stroke play was nothing short of violent, although arguably the pick of his numerous boundaries all around the wicket was a dismissive six over long-on off Sajid Mahmood.

Lancashire, 104-4 at the halfway stage, were made to pay for a collapse which saw the last six wickets fall for 36.

Richard Dawson deserves much credit for claiming two wickets in three probing overs, but the bowling honours went to Andy Gray, who removed Flintoff en route to figures of 3-18.

If the power and placement of Flintoff's shots were the most impressive aspects of his thrilling innings -- he struck 10 fours and three sixes -- he also enjoyed the occasional slice of luck.

Craig White misjudged a skier when Flintoff had made 28, the all-rounder was caught off a Steve Kirby no-ball on 42 and put down by Richard Blakey two runs later.

On the whole, though, there was little Yorkshire's attack could do to stem the flow of runs as Flintoff opened his broad shoulders.

He peppered the leg-side boundary with a frequency bordering on the metronomic and almost cost Steve Kirby a limb with a ferocious straight drive.

Flintoff's pyrotechnics ensured the efforts of his team-mates largely paled into insignificance.

Mal Loye managed a trademark swept six off Steve Kirby, CarlHooper unfurled a couple of delicate fours behind point and Warren Hegg's 20 contained a fine reverse sweep, but otherwise there was a distinct lack of common sense on display.

A couple of avoidable run-outs epitomised the manic nature of Lancashire's cricket late on, and their bowlers fared little better as Harvey, making light of Matthew Wood's early departure, stole the show and the man-of-the-match award from Flintoff's grasp.

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Lancashire's Andrew Flintoff leaves Yorkshire bowler Steve Kirby sprawling