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BEARS BEAT OUTLAWS AS HAIN STARS
Sam Hain on his Twenty/20 debut was the star as Warwickshire had a relatively comfortable 6 wicket victory over Notts on cool dank night at Trent Bridge.
In front of crowd 10,423 Warwickshire won the toss and inserted Notts who were badly handicapped without Hales and Jake Ball on international duty. Warwickshire meanwhile had the luxury of being able to rotate their squad. Trott, Clarke, Barker, Ambrose and Chopra were all rested.
Notts got off to a sedate start. Lumb departed in the fourth over with eight to his name holing out at deep square leg off the bowling of Chris Wright, 18 for one. Sam Wood pushed up to three skied to deep mid on two balls later with a duck to his name, 18 for 2. Wessels spoilt what had been good over for Wright by hitting the remaining two balls of the over for 6 and 4, taking advantage of the short boundary on The Fridge side of the ground. Notts could only muster a meagre 41 for 2 off the 6 over power play.
Greg Smith started to grow in confidence and put bat to ball although he was dropped on 11 by Wright at third man off Woakes. The third wicket partnership added 83 in 9 overs, including 17 off the 12th over off the expensive Recordo Gordon. Smith (43) was caught at mid wicket of the economical Patel. A good innings off 27 balls with five fours and one six. Two overs later Wessels who ended his barren spell with 41-ball 52 was bowled sweeping Patel, 109 for four. Samit Patel hit his first ball for four but his namesake who took a battering from Samit only two days before got his revenge when he got his man next ball being caught by Wright at long on. The former Essex and Middlesex man wearing a top meant for Freddie Coleman. Notts were 115 for five after 15 overs. Jeetan Patel finished with figures of 4-0-23-3 having bowled four consecutive overs from the Pavilion End.
Captain Christian gave the innings impetus hitting three sixes and two fours in a 19-ball 34. Gordon’s last over (the 16th of the innings) costing 25. Gordon (4-0-58-0) had kept Notts in the game. Mullaney after hitting Hannon-Dalby for 12 in three balls got bogged down and was bowled by the Halifax beanpole for 16, Notts 158 for six. Christian fell three balls later at deep mid wicket. Chris Read hit Woakes for six as Notts got to 179 for seven, probably about par. Notts batting was a bit Jekyll and Hyde throughout.
Gurney opened up with a maiden from the Radcliffe Road to Ian Bell. Fletcher followed it up with five dot balls to Sam Hain then there was a single, one for nought off two overs. Gurney’s next over went nine and with Fletcher mysteriously taken off, over four from baseball debutant Hutton went for 14. Fletcher swapped ends and replaced Gurney and went for 15. Hutton then went for 10, although Bell (11) was caught at cover off the fifth ball. Warwickshire 50 for 1 after the power play, they never lost the initiative after this point. Notts were handicapped with a wet ball as light drizzle was now falling. The fielding was somewhat statuesque as Hain was taking the game away from Notts. Porterfield riding his having been dropped by Smith at cover got an 18-ball 26 when he was bowled by Samit, 93 for two in the eleventh. Patel had commendable figures of 4-0-25-1. Three overs later Sam Wood in his solitary over had Evans (10) leg before, 115 for three. Notts seem to one of only a handful of sides without their full overseas quota and were made to pay by Kiwi keeper Luke Ronchi with 22 off 10 balls; over 16 from Mullaney costing 17. Mullaney’s dibbly dobblers were not suited to the newly re-laid pitch going for 40 off three overs. Ronchi was caught on the long off ropes by Christian. Too little too late as Warwickshire galloped home with youngster Hain on his baseball debut finishing man of the match with 92 not out of 54 balls with 12 fours and two sixes. The winning hit a six over extra cover off Fletcher. Woakes had an 18 to his name as The Bears won with two balls unused with many of the crowd drifting home in the rain before the game had finished.
Likely to be without Hales for most of the competition and following the retirement of James Taylor and with a fielding unit that lacks mobility, Notts are likely to struggle in this competition unless an additional overseas batter can be found. The Notts bowling on the night was rusty that is the one area that they should improve upon in future games. MAG
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The strongest squad possible has, as almost always, been restricted by Team England and add to that the loss of James Taylor unfortunately. Mick Newell suggested the more adventurous use of spin this year, many had thought this meant the wild card selection of Connor Marshall but on this occasion Matthew Carter has been lined up for a possible senior T20 début, part of a 13 man squad.- Dan Christian, (captain)
- Matthew Carter,
- Luke Fletcher,
- Harry Gurney,
- Brett Hutton,
- Michael Lumb,
- Steven Mullaney,
- Samit Patel,
- Chris Read, (wicket-keeper)
- Greg Smith,
- Brendan Taylor,
- Riki Wessels,
- Sam Wood.
I'd expect Carter and Taylor to miss out however, but other permutations are easily possible after Bears gave Brett Hutton a mauling, particularly. Riki Wessels hasn't had a good start to this season, so hopefully a change of ball colour might jump-start his season. Riki has scored 81, 0, 27, 16, 12, 15, 0, 6, 0 so far.
Looking at the scorecard for Notts 2s narrow DL win over Lancs 2s, it seems that Sydney Sixers' Trent Lawford has been having a trial - a friend of Michael Lumb (perhaps). On the same scorecard, Carter didn't impress whereas Marshall and Sam Wood did significantly.
- Ian Bell (Captain)
- Rikki Clarke
- Varun Chopra
- Laurie Evans
- Recordo Gordon
- Sam Hain
- Oliver Hannon-Dalby
- Ateeq Javid
- Jeetan Patel
- William Porterfield
- Josh Poysden
- Luke Ronchi (Wicket-Keeper)
- Chris Woakes
Been speaking to a fiend about this seasons poor performances and when you go through the planning it's awfully poor.
ReplyDeleteLook at a squad, Newell would have known Hales, Broad and J taylor would have probably been in England team. So who is our money going on? Certainly not to overseas stars, must be likes of B Taylor & Smith? Shows how poor management has been.
hope Smith & B Taylor turn it around quickly else Newell should walk
You're forgetting W Gidman, another who has found the gulf between divisions, on the face of it, too great for him to breach. Based on stats he was a good signing. Brendan Taylor scored 1000 runs last year and will again find form this year, sooner or later. Greg Smith has delivered no more and no less than would have been expected, based again on what he did for Leicester.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that Newell should have seen this mini crisis coming and perhaps an overseas batsman might have been more appropriate than the current individual/s.
One pity is that Will Root is out of form at the moment but in all likelihood he is probably going to be the long term solution, him with Libby and Tom Moores.