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13/08
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Leicestershire thrashed Notts by 124 runs at Kibworth today to slip to sixth in the Group A standing.
On a very warm and sticky day, Leicestershire won the toss and elected to bat. With a crowd of around 1,200 in attendance Notts brought McCann and Patterson-White into the Eleven - the pair both released from Birmingham Phoenix duty from the wretched H*ndred. Out went Sams and Hayes.
Patel hit the first ball from Hutton for four through point but fell lbw off the second delivery (4 for 1). This was the best it got for Notts for the rest of the day. Budinger and Holland tucked into some pretty average Notts bowling whilst adding 77 in 13 overs for the second wicket. Hutton went for nine in the 7th over with boundaries for both batsmen. After bowling four overs for 22 Lord was replaced by Patterson-White from the Pavilion End for the 10th over. Leicestershire 58 for 1 after 10 overs.
James replaced Hutton for the 11th over. Budinger hit Patterson-White for six over mid-wicket; 12 off the 11th over. Holland (32) well down the pitch was stumped by Moores off Patterson-White, 81 for 2 in the 14th over. McCann (4 0 35 0) replaced James for the 15th over with a four through point bringing up Budinger's excellent 50 off 45 balls. Leicestershire reached 100 in the 17th over. McCann went for 11 in the 19th over, boundaries for Budinger and Masood. Budinger hit Patterson-White for a straight six, 127 for 2 after 20 overs.
Pocklington came on for the 22nd over – Budinger finding the ropes twice more, nine off the over. James returned for the 23rd and in his second over of his new spell was hit the consecutive boundaries by Shan Masood. Leicestershire 161 for 2 off 25 overs.
In the 27th over, Budinger hit James for 6 over square leg and four through mid-off and then a single off successive balls to reach his 100 off 75 balls. Lord returned for the 29th over and had Budinger (102 off 80 balls; 13x4, 3x6) brilliantly caught by the sprawling Pocklington running towards long on (187 for 3). An excellent composed attacking match winning innings from Budinger who has matured considerably under the tutelage of Titch Taylor – the left hander no longer an out an out slogger. The third wicket had added 106 in 15 overs to all but take the game away from Notts – who carried little bowling threat throughout the Foxes innings.
Masood reached his 50 off 59 balls with a single off Lord in the 31st over. He fell in the next over caught by Haynes right on the long on ropes off Pocklington (201 for 4). Hutton returned for the 35th over. In the 36th over, Cox (11) was caught on the square leg ropes by Lord off Pocklington (218 for 5). Leicestershire though wriggled out of a slight hole adding a further 115 in the last 14.4 overs of the innings.
Pocklington completed his 10 over spell with figures of 2 for 45 – Notts best bowler of the day, even more a mystery that he was not given more than three overs at Derby. Leicestershire 239 for 5 off 40 overs.
James returned from the Paul Abbott End for the 41st over and went for seven. Patterson-White returned and conceded 9 off the 42nd including a six over mid-wicket by Trevaskis. Hutton returned for the 45th over. Handscomb hit Patterson-White for six over square leg. Trying for a repeat next ball Handscomb (45 off 49 balls; 2x4, 1x6) was caught on the mid-wicket ropes by Lord,, a second wicket for Patterson-White (9 0 68 2; 286 for 6). Mike hit Hutton (10 0 61 1) for six over long off., 14 off the 47th over. Mike (25) hit Lord for six over square leg but perished next ball pulling Lord (8 0 52 2) straight to Seecharan on the long leg ropes (320 for 7). Trevaskis (45 off 41 balls; 4x4, 1x6) was caught at backward point by Hameed off James (9 0 69 1; 328 for 8). Leicestershire finished on 333 for 7 off 50 overs. A 30 above par total - Notts had conceded over 300 for the third match in four, their bowling paper thin thanks to hundred call ups and lack of overseas support. Most disappointingly it took Notts 3 hours 46 minutes to bowl their 50 overs – despite 23 overs of spin being utilised. Not good enough! Their fielding though was excellent particularly considering the sweltering conditions.
Holland (5-0-21-0; Pavilion End) and Wright opened the bowling. Slater (1) appeared to be caught behind by Cox off Wright directly off his pad, 5 for 1 in the 2nd over. Hameed hit Wright for two fours for three balls – the 4th over going 14 including 4 leg byes and two no balls.
Mike replaced Wright for the 10th over – 13 off the over including 3 boundaries – one for Hameed and two of successive balls by Haynes. Notts 57 for 1 off 10 overs – one behind Leicestershire.
Notts then lost their way, with the batting panicking in front of the large target, Haynes playing a lone hand. Scriven came on for the 11th over and removed Hameed (23) with his first delivery caught by keeper Cox (57 for 2). The 15th over was a maiden bowled by Scriven. Alex Green came on for the 16th over. In the 17th over McCann (14) was caught at mid-wicket by Handscomb diving to his right off Scriven (81 for 3). Green conceded 14 off the 18th over, three boundaries for Haynes. Haynes reached his 50 off 51 balls with an offside single off Scriven (6-1-23-2) in the 19th over. Notts 105 for 3 off 20 overs.
In the 22nd over, Haynes (56) was lbw on the sweep to Trevaskis (116 for 4). Moores was lbw to Trevaskis 127 for 5 in the 24th over. Seecharan (19) was caught on the mid-wicket ropes by Holland off Mike (6-0-32-1), 127 for 6 in the 25th over. Notts had lost three wickets for 11 runs in 17 balls. The game over as a contest.
Trevaskis went for 9 off the 26th – two boundaries for James. Wright reappeared for the 29th over. Notts 156 for 6 off 30 overs.
Patterson-White hit Wright (6-0-38-1) for six over mid-wicket, a straight four and a mid-wicket boundary; 16 off the 31st over. The fun did not last, Patterson-White (23) falling next over stumped by Cox off Trevaskis, 173 for 7. Three balls later, James (22) was bowled by the slow left-armer. Notts 174 for 8 after 32 overs. Green returned for the 33rd over and went for 10 – fours for Lord and Pocklington. In the 36th over, Trevaskis conceded nine, boundaries for Pocklington and Lord. In the 37th over, Pocklington (17) skied Green (5-1-39-1) to Handscomb at mid-wicket (208 for 9). The ninth wicket stand worth 34 in 4.2 overs. Hutton played out the rest of the over – the second maiden of the innings. At 17:53, Trevaskis went nap and finished with career best List A figures of 10-0-52-5 when he bowled Hutton off stump for a six ball duck. Notts 209 all out off 38 overs had lost by another huge margin. Lord 18 not out. A feeble batting performance from Notts who should have scored more on a flat wicket with a fast outfield.
The much more experienced Leicestershire team with two overseas players on board clearly take this competition much more seriously than Notts. The Director of Cricket, munching on his Skips, paying “lip service” to the members by not bothering to fill either of the two overseas berths.
Notts now need to win all four of their matches to realistically stand a chance of qualification. Next up Glamorgan at Cardiff who have yet to win a game in the competition this year. MAG
12/08
Liam Patterson-White and Freddie McCann have been released from Birmingham and are added to the squad.
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As the temperature rises, the stakes rise too. Notts have six points from a possible twelve so far with this match marking the mid-point of the group stages.
Daniel Sams has now gone, according to what we were told -"just the first three games", they said. So a change will happen to the squad. It might mean that Byron comes in for Sams but The General should have new recruits to call up with some of the H*ndred, not having played in that competition so far (in the 2/3 rounds), can now be made available for the their daytime job employer.
Assuming neither Liam Patterson-White and Freddie McCann don't play on Tuesday for the Birmingham franchise, then they could be added to Calvin Harrison and Dillon Pennington who have been inactive for the Trent Bridge franchise so far, to boost The General's options - if Notts have decided to take that route -player release rules here - the paperwork has to be in place and the DoC has his mind on other unresolved matters he told the radio the other week.
Ben SlaterLyndon James
Ben Martindale
Haseeb Hameed
Jack Haynes
Sammy King
Sam Seecharan
Tom Moores
Joe Pocklington
Byron Hatton-Lowe
Brett Hutton
Rob Lord
Tom Giles
James Hayes
Having played at kibworth many times who ever wins the toss & fields first will be favourites to win this encounter,one would hope but then again if Notts bowl as bad as they did at Derbyshire then winning the toss won't make any difference
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So then, when our clearly over worked DoC said we would have an overseas player for this Metro 🚇 Bank 🏦 competition, he really meant we would have one for 3 out of the 8 games ????? Makes you wonder what is the point, we clearly regard it as a development competition so why not just go with it and give more chances to the lads in the stiffs ? We’ve got no choice to do that now anyway so it seemed a strange one to me to play the very disappointing Sams in only the 3 games he was ever going to play for us - then again, batting 2nd and bowling Pocklington for only 3 overs also seemed unbelievablely strange so it’s all in keeping with everything else that’s going on in this years campaign really ????
ReplyDeleteAgree with points made.
ReplyDeleteGood to have Freddie and Liam back. In a pretty location, we need a win, otherwise quifucation very difficult.Despite everything, we are about Notts winning cricket matches and hopefully competitions, aren't we ? Sometimes wonder re 'the powers" at the club.
qualification even.
ReplyDeleteBut The Rickets did not release their 2 unused players !
ReplyDeleteSays something (Rich?) about the Trent Bridge franchise, but I'm not sure what!
DeleteYes, something pretty bad ! At the moment, maybe partly due to this, seems we are facing another defeat, with one of our old boys getting a century against us.
DeleteI’m starting to get very irritated by the whole “too much cricket”, central contracts and Hundred competition. Consider:
ReplyDeleteJosh Tongue. 2 or red ball games for us back in spring. Will we see him again this season? Would have been same with Stone too. Will be the same with Duckett.
The Hundred. Run it at the same time for the competition for which England were world champions in 2019. But be vague about which players can be released (“released”. The hundred takes the same ground and coaching staff for which my membership fees contribute). Result is a downgraded competition
I’m reading a book about the “almost invincible”
West Indian tour from 1984. Their schedule by modern standards was jam packed. Yet with it a chance to see world leading (probably even greater than that) players of the era and local household names in the county team.
What we have now is a sidelined championship in terms of timing and priority, a sidelined 50 over competition and - especially at Notts - barely any meaningful cricket at county level in July and August.
Whatever changes the ecb makes, this has to be addressed.
Don't hold your breath JimG.
DeleteAnother poor performance,they will say not a suprise given the mix of young and old, but becoming all too predictable in the 20 and 50 over comps the last few seasons!
ReplyDeleteWell anonymous, take 7 out of the team and implant players that haven't learnt the skills of List A cricket in a Second Eleven Trophy (because that's become an obsolete competition) and you get an imbalance in many games.
DeleteMr Franks is conspicuous by his absence.
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