v Yorkshire T20 at Scarborough

Rain again by the sea

Rain won the day once again as Notts picked up No Result number 3 at soggy North Marine Road.

Notts without their England quartet brought in White and Elstone for Hales and Patel. Yorkshire without Gale were captained by Azeem Rafiq who won an important toss on a day where regularly showers were expected.

Former Tyke, Lumb lasted three balls before being bowled by Sidebottom bowling from the Peasholme Park End. Wessels having hit a four and six departed for 12 falling to the Aussie combination, caught at short mid wicket by Phil Jaques bowled Mitchell Starc. 

Captain Voges and James Taylor  batted well together again adding 45 runs in seven overs, before Ashraf  who swapped ends had the Notts skipper caught at long on for 29, 72 for three.

 The twin scoreboards were not operational and the crowd had to rely on a tiny scoreboard and end of over tannoy announcements to keep abreast of the score.

Shortly afterwards with the score at 76 for three after 11.1 overs, umpires Cowley and Gough were too hasty to take the players off when a brief shower arrived, 20 minutes were lost when the players returned at 1540. Only 17 balls were bowled but there was time for Read to hit a huge six over square leg into the Yorkshire masses assembled on the famous old Terrace. A much heavier shower arrived with Notts standing on 105 for three after 14 overs with Taylor 41 not out and Read 15 not out.

After a series of heavy showers the umpires pulled the plug on the game at 1705 despite there being still 80 minutes playing time left, an hour being allowed to be lost for daytime Twenty/20 games. The excellent crowd of 3,000 devoid of Leeds dead heads who were otherwise engaged left disappointed. It was also good to see 50 or so Notts fans making the trip, declining the opportunity to join the thousands of Event Attendees who made their way to watch Hales 99 at Trent Bridge.

Monday


Durham continued their run of appalling form.
This time the Dynamos lost, badly, to the Lightning by 8 wickets and with 6 whole overs to spare! Gary Keedy (4/25) and Yasir Arafat (3/21) were the architects of Durham's downfall to 121 all out. Yasir Arafat is now the the leading wicket taker in T20 cricket in England (now playing for his fourth county) with 99 victims. Steven Croft (65*) and Tom Smith (40) made short work of the chase.