TOM Fell and Daryl Mitchell helped Worcestershire Rapids to a dramatic place in the Royal London One-Day Cup quarter-finals with victory over Notts Outlaws at Trent Bridge.

Fell followed up the unbeaten century he scored against Lancashire the previous day with 63 not out.

Captain Mitchell was undefeated on 61 when the rain came, leaving their side victors by nine wickets under the Duckworth-Lewis method.

They overtook Notts in the table and knocked Durham out of the top four after their game was rained off at Lancashire.

Set a target of 285, Rapids had reached 138-1 after 24 overs when the umpires decided the conditions had become unplayable.

Notts had posted 284-8 from their 50 overs with Samit Patel scoring 55, Dan Christian 54 and Riki Wessels 50.

Ed Barnard was the pick of Rapids' attack, taking 3-45 including the wicket of Patel, while George Rhodes claimed 2-37 as he removed Christian and Wessels.

Worcestershire began their chase in murky conditions and lost Tom Kohler-Cadmore in the first over, chopping Luke Wood onto his stumps.

Fell and Mitchell worked Outlaws' bowling around efficiently, always ensuring they were ahead of the required rate in an unbroken partnership of 130.

Fell's 50 came from 53 balls, while his partner's arrived soon afterwards from 62.

At the time of the stoppage, the total was 35 runs ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis calculations.

Earlier, Michael Lumb, who began the competition with three consecutive hundreds, hit three boundaries in his 17 before being taken by a sharp slip catch from Kohler-Cadmore off the bowling of Kyle Abbott.

Brendan Taylor also got a start before tamely chipping Brett D'Oliveira to mid-on for 21.

Wessels reached his 50 from 67 deliveries but hit his next delivery into the hands of long-on.

Rapids were then handicapped when D'Oliveira had to leave the action with a finger injury after parrying a powerful straight drive from Christian.

The Australian shared a fourth-wicket stand of 88 with Patel before both fell during a productive spell for the visitors, which saw three wickets go down for only 11 runs.

Barnard removed Patel for 55, made from 66 balls with three fours, before dismissing Greg Smith for a first-ball duck in the same over.

Christian was fairly cautious in reaching 54 from 57 balls before mishitting the spin of Rhodes out to Abbott in the deep.

Chris Read and Steven Mullaney applied late lustre to the innings with a stand of 64 in 6.4 overs but in the end it was all irrelevant as Rapids took the spoils.

Worcestershire can now contemplate an away quarter-final against one of the South Group qualifiers.