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Peter Trego was unable to find the necessary support at Lady Bay as Nottinghamshire fell 71 runs short in their Second Eleven Championship game against Leicestershire.
Notts went into day four requiring 241 runs for the victory with nine wickets in hand having dismissed the visitors for 279 on day three, and lost the wicket of Matthew Montgomery in the evening session.
Skipper Trego accumulated 87 of the required runs in a three-hour knock, but only Ben Compton (45) could provide the resistance to help build a partnership, the pair put on 78 for the third wicket and helped the hosts climb to 121 for three after the early loss of Sol Budinger (17).
Abidane Sakande struck with three wickets in four overs to ensure Notts’ could not rebuild any momentum after the loss of Compton, the seamer snared Dane Schadendorf (3), Kashif Ali (1) and Toby Pettmen (7) in quick succession to reduce Notts to 138 for seven.
Jack Hayes settled in for 57-balls to help his side, but when Trego was caught by George Rhodes, the die had been cast, and the Green and Golds were eventually bowled out for 195.
Day 3
Nottinghamshire require 241 runs for victory on the final day of their Second XI clash with Leicestershire after dismissing the visitors for 279 on day three at Lady Bay.
Leg-spinner Calvin Harrison took 5/63, with support from Toby Pettman (2/26) and Tom Barber (2/74), as Notts largely kept their hosts in check on the penultimate day.
Resuming on 395/7, Nottinghamshire were only able to add a further 13 to their first innings total, with Kashif Ali departing for 89 and Pettman failing to add to his overnight 23.
Leicestershire quickly found themselves one down, with opener George Rhodes looping Pettman into the hands of Ben Compton at second slip.
Rishi Patel was Pettman’s second victim, trapped lbw, but Sam Bates and Nick Welch mounted a recovery, adding 68 for the third wicket before the latter’s defences were breached by Barber for 37.
Scott Steel (28) and Louis Kimber continued to provide ample backing for Bates, but the opener would be undone by Harrison, bowled ten runs short of his century.
Kimber would go on to reach his fifty before chopping Tom Barber onto his stumps, while Leicestershire’s lower order offered little.
Uday Modhwadia was the last to fall, allowing Harrison to complete his five-fer, leaving the hosts chasing 266 to win.
And while Modhwadia would make an early impact with the ball by removing Notts opener Montgomery (8) in the fourth over, Ben Compton (4*) and first-innings centurion Sol Budinger (13*) went on to see out the remainder of the day.
Sol Budinger blazed his way to 118 from 118 balls as Nottinghamshire’s Second XI reached 395/7 in reply to Leicestershire’s 395 all out on day two at Lady Bay.
Batting at three, the expansive left-hander was remorseless with any short-pitched bowling delivered by his opponents, his brutality off the back foot key in taking him to three figures.
Budinger, who also unfurled a handful of drives down the ground in the course of his innings, found admirable support in the form of his captain, Peter Trego.
The duo compiled 127 for the third wicket before Trego was removed for a well-made 52 that itself included ten boundaries.
Budinger himself would follow, shortly after the departures of Calvin Harrison and Dane Schadendorf, but Matthew Carter and Kashif Ali were able to forge another fruitful partnership.
Carter’s half-century included a succession of languid strokes which found the ropes, while Ali finished the day unbeaten on 85 from 141 balls – an innings which mixed patience with a dash of expansiveness.
Ali will resume at 11am on day three in the company of Toby Pettman, who reached 23* at stumps.
Joey Evison led a Nottinghamshire attack who were made to work hard by Louis Kimber and a stubborn tail on day one of their Second Eleven Championship game against Leicestershire at Lady Bay.
Kimber made 178 and was ably supported to wrestle the momentum away from Nottinghamshire, the visitors finishing 394 for nine at stumps, after the hosts had Leicestershire 136 for six earlier in the day.
Tom Barber and Toby Pettman made the early inroads, dismissing the visiting openers with just 48 on the board.
Evison joined the party not long after, claiming the wicket of number three Rishi Patel, and striking with consecutive balls to break a 68-run stand for the fifth wicket and have Jarred Lysaught caught behind first ball.
Leicestershire refused to lie down, though, and put on 118 and 62 for the seventh and eighth wickets respectively, both taken by leg spinner Calvin Harrison.
By the time Kimber was caught by Calvin Harrison off the bowling of Jack Hayes to put an end to an impressive innings which included 25 fours and one six, the visitors has amassed 386 to turn the tables after a promising start for Notts.
After last week's walloping from Lancashire's 2s and a return for old boy Jack Blatherwick, this week sees another Notts wannabe, who wasn't taken on much like his current Leicester team mate Hassan Azad (we can all see how that proved to be a myopic blunder by management there), this time it's Lincolnshire-born Louis Kimber.
One thing you can be sure of, while we still have myopic Mick sitting in the high chair,he will still prefer to sign tried and tested failures from other counties, which is why the first team hasn't won a game for nearly three years.
ReplyDeleteI am 77 now. My ambition in life is to live long enough to see a future Notts ccc side win a four day match!
ReplyDeleteSeriously - the first 11 is showing more promise and fight than previously . The addition of James and LPW has made a difference
Yes, those two are part of the new Notts. Apart from any ability they have with both bat&ball they have fight, courage and resolve. Shame the coach&captain didn't have the courage to pick them earlier. That was possibly the worst defeat of all of them. 200-2 is a position where you cannot possibly lose a match to a10 man side without the services of their England test opener. The way the Captain slunk to knees at the end in utter disbelief shows what a crushing blow this was. And apart from Jake Ball, that was arguably our strongest bowling attack we can field and we still somehow lost from that massive position of strength. The team confidence and belief must be shot to bits after that. I think this squad is trying to compete with the Notts side of the late 1990s with Welton, Archer, Gie, Tolley, Noon, Bowen in terms of non-performances
ReplyDeleteNone of those arrived with the same fanfare, rep & expectation as Duckett, Clarke and Hameed have.
DeleteYes that's a fair point. As an aside a Notts die hard life member I know always would say the worst Notts team, in championship terms, was the one captained by a certain Andrew Corran in the1960s but with the resources the current management set up have had at their disposal to be a run of this inept and shocking magnitude is hard to even contemplate never mind accept
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