England Dwayned but Hales reigns supreme!

will he celebrate with an ice cream
with a flake in?

In the England Outlaws game at Trent Bridge, the Windies won the toss and chose to bat.


Steve Finn accounted for Chris Gayle (2), Stuart Broad snared Lendl Simmons and Graeme Swann had Marlon Samuels caught at the wicket. 38/3 (8 ov)


At half-way, WI 57/3 Dwayne Smith 36*


15 overs 101/3 Smith 64*


West Indies 172/4 (20 ov)


Dwayne Smith 70
Dwayne Bravo 54*
Kieron Pollard 23*


After the early loss of Craig Kieswetter (3), Alex Hales brought-up his 50 with a six off Dwayne Bravo's bowling.


At half way, England were 72/1 with much to be done.


After 15 overs Alex Hales had reached 90 not out and England were 127/1


After 18.1 overs, Ravi Bopara brings-up his 50 with a boundary off his namesake Rampaul.


On the last ball of the penultimate over, Alex Hales is bowled on 99 (6 fours, 4 sixes)


With 2 to win, Ravi Bopara is out for 59


With two balls to spare England won by 7 wickets.






The (rest of) Outlaws lost another game to the weather, this time against Yorkshire. The game had started on time:



Adam Voges lost the toss at Scarborough and Notts Outlaws were asked to bat first.


Michael Lumb was out to ex-Outlaw, Ryan Sidebottom in the first over, Riki Wessels followed in the 4th over to the Aussie import Mitchell Starc - 45/2 (6 ov).
At half-way Outlaws were 72/2 Adam Voges 29*




11.1 overs saw Rain Stopping play 76/3


14.0 overs saw another stoppage for rain, 105/3 James Taylor 41*, Chris Read 15*


But that was it, Notts' third NR so far and 3/5 to date.




At Hove, Sussex Sharks amassed a daunting 209/6 against the Essex Eagles. 
Chris Nash 52
Joe Gatting 45*
Luke Wright 40
Reece Topley 3/43


Essex weren't up to the task and were all out 190. Chris Liddle 3/35 


At Canterbury, Hampshire had a comfortable win over Kent by 6 wickets with 10 balls to spare. Glenn Maxwell 66* from 32 balls.