Notts Outlaws recorded their biggest-ever Vitality Blast win over Leicestershire Foxes with a 74-run thrashing that took them top of the North Group.

The visitors posted 209-4, with George Munsey anchoring the innings with an unbeaten 75 off 52 balls, before bowling the hosts out for 135 as Mohammad Ali claimed 3/20.

Munsey’s knock contained three sixes, before South African all-rounder George Linde ended the innings with a whirlwind 55 from 22, clearing the rope four times.

Rehan Ahmed hit 45 from 23 balls and Ben Mike added a 24-ball 39 but it came too late to save his side as Mohammad Amir and Olly Stone both added a further two scalps each.

The win was the Outlaws’ second in three days and fifth in a row, opener Munsey’s half-century was also his fifth in his last five Blast innings, a streak that took him past 400 runs in this season’s competition.

Put in, the Outlaws plundered 65 powerplay runs, two thirds of them from the bat of Joe Clarke, who made 42 from 22, picking up sixes from Mike and spinner Liam Trevaskis.

Rehan Ahmed’s first over went for 19, slog-swept for two sixes by Munsey, and although Clarke and Jack Haynes fell, the Outlaws still reached the ten-over mark at a very healthy 100-2.

Munsey picked up his third six as he went to 50 from 29 balls, as Tom Moores provided support in making 21 before falling to Alex Green, who claimed 2/27.

However, then came Linde’s blitz, with the South African going after Green and Trevaskis with two sixes off each to post a 19-ball half-century.

His efforts propelled the visitors comfortably beyond 200, and although he was run out off the penultimate ball of the innings, there was momentum for the Outlaws to carry into the defence.

The Foxes’ tricky chase then quickly became stiffer still as four wickets fell for 19 in the first four overs of their reply to put the Outlaws firmly in command.

Amir bowled Rishi Patel before Nick Kelly bottom-edged into his stumps, and Ali then took two in two as Ben Cox’s scoop looped to short fine-leg and Ashton Turner was caught behind.

Ahmed resisted through the remainder of the first half of the innings, but when Joey Evison hit Linde’s left-arm spin down the throat of long-on, the Foxes were 58-5 in the ninth.

Benny Howell ended Ahmed’s attempt to keep his side in the chase, as the opener failed to clear Linde at long-off.

Trevaskis then departed to another boundary catch before Stone returned to bowl Ben Green, and Mike’s late resistance was ended by Amir.

The returning Ali then dismissed Alex Green to wrap up the points and propel the visitors to the top of the group with four games remaining.