24 Point Win Secured
Day Four of
the County Championship fixture at Trent Bridge between Nottinghamshire and
Somerset should prove to be just a formality.
Hosts, Notts,
need only 44 runs with 7 wickets intact and with a whole day to do it. The bulk
of the meagre target of 110’s back being broken by Samit Patel last night in
the nervy gloom with a quick-fire 41. None of the nail-biting of Headlingley from yesterday with the last over traumas and dramas to contend with.
The spirited bowling by the Somerset seam attack shouldn't be as great an obstacle to a Nottinghamshire victory as good old fashioned
nerves but with a whole three sessions available and the weather forecasted to
be wall to wall sunshine, only a history making, mega-humiliating, colossal
cock-up of a crumbling collapse can prevent the surely inevitable win for the
Green and Golds. Nerves shouldn't even be an issue, but in cricket.....
As it turned out, it took Notts less than 40 minutes to wrap-up victory this morning.