Essex Metro Bank Cup at Chelmsford Win 2 points

 

NOTTS WASH ESSEX AWAY IN TORRENT OF WICKETS

Notts winning by a Record Breaking 168 runs, Essex dismissed for just 69


Notts' 50 over campaign got off to a dramatic start with an emphatic 168 run victory over Essex at Chelmsford in front of a crowd of around 3,000.

Essex won the toss and elected to bowl on what turned out to be slow seaming wicket. Notts left out Singh, Pettman and King from the 14-man squad selected for the fixture. Tom Loten was making his List A debut for Notts and Calvin Harrison a List A debut also. With the old away dressing rooms no longer fit for purpose in the ramshackle Pavilion, Notts were housed in accommodation at the Lower level of the River End. It must have seemed like home for a lot of Notts Eleven brought up playing their cricket at the palatial Lady Bay. With Peter Moores absent, Mick Newell donned the tracksuit and was coach for the day. Eat your heart out Neil Warnock! Essex like Notts were decimated by Hundred call ups and were also handicapped by Simon Harmer’s decision to take a two-week break from cricket. In desperation Essex had signed Tasmanian all-rounder Beau Webster, a well-known veteran of the Big Bash who played with Joe Clarke for the Melbourne Stars last winter.

Porter (Hayes Close End) and Beard opened the bowling. Slater and Martindale made a circumspect start scoring 18 off the first six overs with the ball zipping around. Martindale, in his second List A game, hit two boundaries off the 7th over bowled by Porter and Slater took nine off the eighth over including two boundaries off Beard. Slater then hit two fours off Porter in the following over. The last over of the power play was bowled by Ben Allison and he had Slater dropped on 21 by Beard low down at point, Notts 50 for 0 off 10 overs.

Martindale took three boundaries off Porter in the 11th over including an edged four through the vacant slip position. Beau Webster conceded seven off his opening over, the 13th of the innings. Westley came on bowling off spin for the 15th over. After two overs of right arm seam Webster changed to off spin mode for the 16th over. Martindale brought up his 50 off 52 balls and Notts 100 with a single off Westley in the 18th over. A pleasing innings from Ben Martindale (55 off 58 balls, 8x4) ended when he was lbw attempting a switch hit off Westley, 107 for 1 in the 20th over. Two overs later a single for Slater off Westley brought him his 50 off 67 balls. Nijjar came on for the 24th over with his slow left arm, Slater hitting him for 6 over square leg. Notts 132 for 1 off 24 overs subsequently began to lose their way.

Westley changed to the Hayes Close End for the 25th over. Notts 150 came up in the 28th over. Porter and Beard returned for the 29th and 32nd overs respectively. Beard removed Slater (79 off 101 balls, 8x4, 1x6) who chipped him to Rymell at mid-on, 171 for 2 off 32 overs. Slater amazing List A career continues unabated with 2,517 runs @57.20 on 54 appearances. Little did we know that that this was the start of a dramatic collapse resulting in Notts losing their last nine wickets for 66 and that Slater's knock exceeded Essex final total by 10 runs! Slater and James had got bogged down on the two paced wicket in the later stages of their stand which had added 64 runs in 12 overs.

In his following over, Hameed (5) played onto Beard, 177 for 3 in the 34th over. Porter (10 1 45 0) went for two singles off his last over. James (32 off 40 balls) ended his boundaryless but valuable innings by being dismissed via edging a legside heave off Beard to keeper Buttleman, 180 for 4 in the 36th over. Webster returned bowling spin in the 37th over with Patterson-White and Montgomery finding the ropes, Notts first boundaries for eight overs. Montgomery (12) smashed the returning Ben Allison (5 0 31 1) straight to Westley at mid-off, 195 for 5 in the 38th over. The Notts 200 came up in the 39th over bowled by Westley. Patterson-White hit two boundaries in the 40th over bowled by Beard, Notts 208 for 5 off 40 overs.

Webster returned and had Patterson-White (16) top edging him to Rymell at short third man, 210 for 6 in the 41st over. Nijjar bowling once more from the River End bowled Schadendorf off stump for 3, 214 for 7 in the 42nd over. In the following over, Harrison was bowled by Westley (8 0 34 2) for 6, 216 for 8. Hutton hit Nijjar (6 0 41 1) for a six over wide long on and next ball for a straight boundary. Loten (5) drove a full toss from Webster (9 0 49 2) straight back to the bowler, 235 for 9 after 44 overs. Beard (7.5 1 32 4) returned and Hutton (14) dragged a delivery from him on to his off stump. Notts 237 all out off 45.5 overs. Notts had, not for the first time this season, collapsed dramatically. Their final total almost completely down to the runs scored by the top three.

Essex though looked like they had a weak batting line up and might struggle to chase the score. Paterson (9 1 30 4) and Hutton (8 1 17 3) proved too hot to handle with Essex making their equal third lowest List A innings in their history. The lowest being their 57 in the 1996 Nat West Final versus Lancashire. It was third lowest against Notts beaten only by the 43 all out by Northants at Northampton in 1977 (Dilip Doshi 8 7 1 1) and 67 by Minor Counties North at Newark in 1975.

Hutton (River End) went for two in the opening over. Paterson picked up a wicket with his third ball having Josh Rymell leg before for 1, 3 for 1. In the following over, Das going for an expansive leg side shot was bowled by Hutton for 2, 7 for 2. In the 6th over, key man Westley was caught by Dane Schadendorf diving to his right off the bowling of Dane Paterson for 6, 11 for 3. Beau Webster hit Essex's first boundary in the 8th over with a cover driven four off Paterson. Eighteen-year-old right-hander Noel Thain (2) was dismissed in the same over caught by Harrison above his head at second slip, 16 for 4. Essex were 25 for 4 off 10 overs.

Loten replaced Hutton for the 11th over and conceded four singles. Webster not moving his feet was caught by sole slip Harrison diving to his left off Paterson for 16, 31 for 5 in the 12th over. The 5th wicket partnership of 15 between Webster and Charlie Allison was the largest of the innings. Charlie Allison, another 18-year-old and brother of Ben, was dropped on 6 off Loten, an easy chance to Schadendorf by his ankles. Brett Hutton returned for the Hayes Close End after an outstanding opening spell by Paterson (7 1 21 4). Charlie Allison attempting a pull shot chopped on to Loten (6 0 19 1) for 13, 45 for 6 in the 17th over. Next over, Ben Allison went for a duck pulling Hutton high into the sky, Loten taking the catch at long leg, 46 for 7. Beard went first ball plumb leg before to Hutton, 46 for 8. Paterson returned for the 22nd over and Nijjar (8) going for a quick single was run out via direct hit by Hameed stationed at mid-off, 58 for 9. Patterson-White (2 0 3 0) had his first bowl in the 23rd over. At 16:07 Harrison came on from the Hayes Close End and grabbed the last wicket with his first ball, Porter (2) driving him straight to James at mid-off leaving top scorer Buttleman not out on 19. Essex 69 all out off 25.1 overs had sunk to the heaviest ever defeat by a first-class county against Notts in List A cricket, the 167-run victory over Surrey at Trent Bridge in B&H Cup quarter-final in 1984 being erased from history. Notts though have had two larger victories, 228 runs over Northumberland at Jesmond in 1994 and 192 runs versus Buckinghamshire at Marlow in 1990. Today’s stand-in super coach having scored 35 at Pound Lane opening the batting with one BC Broad (115), 33 years ago.

After a terrible second half of their innings Notts had fought back commendably with the experienced bowling duo of Paterson and Hutton proving far too good for an inexperienced and lightweight Essex batting unit. MAG





Essex POV Report

Essex won the toss and elected to bowl first.

The Notts starting eleven:

Ben Slater
Ben Martindale
Matt Montgomery
Lyndon James
Haseeb Hameed
Liam Patterson-White
Dane Schadendorf
Calvin Harrison**
Tom Loten**
Brett Hutton

Dane Paterson

** list A debut for Notts

Notts Outlaws have announced the following 13  14 man squad for the journey to Essex.

Ben Slater
Ben Martindale
Matt Montgomery
Lyndon James
Haseeb Hameed
Liam Patterson-White
Dane Schadendorf
Sam King
Calvin Harrison
Tom Loten
Brett Hutton
Fateh Singh
Toby Pettman

+ Dane Paterson

Essex preview

02/08

Some unfortunate news from looking at the scorecard from last night's sell-out Trent Bridge Rocketeers show, Samit Patel and Fumbling Tom took no part.

Under the new rules, does this make them available to Notts Outlaws, or in Samit's case, available for a loan deal to Derby? Perhaps Tom could play as a specialist batsman as we need to keep him in that good vein of form for September.

01/08

In the interests of observational science I watched 10 balls of the women's H*ndred this afternoon. I wanted to know, what the heck the white contruction on the William Clarke stand was for. It turns out the white angular box has nothing to do with the H*ndred (much like the vast majority of Nottinghamshire supporters), so the question remains unanswered*. During those 10 balls I noticed a largely empty Trent Bridge whilst waiting for that right camera angle, but the match was only the appetitiser for the main event in Trent Bridge's marketting department's defence. Are poor ticket sales the reason why Tim Eatherington (Lisa's No.1) has quit Trent Bridge?

After my excursion to the dark side, I flicked channels back to the live stream from Scarborough; I had thought the standard of bowling at Trent Bridge was poor, but the standard of umpiring at Scarborough was shocking. Nigel Lllong's legendary status of umpiring with superhuman eye-sight now looks a little tame in comparison to Neil Mallender's abilities to look one way but to be able to adjudge on a run out in a different direction simultaneously was astounding. Of course, he was stone cold wrong in his assessment of the run out of Shan Masood, who was heard by the commentator to have shouted at the umpire that he [Mallender]wasn't even looking! But, you know who's the one that will get into bother...

...not the light bending, observer of parellel universes umpire or Jack Leaning, who gave Masood a sarcastic wave bye-bye as he trudged-off, that's for sure! All good fun really but I just hope any games Notts play in have umpires with a consistent approach to rain unlike the pair at North Marine Road.

In spite of the stop start (for rain x 3) second half of the game, the match gave good enertainment to the crowd: two centurions and a hat trick, probably beating the alternative of a morning sat on the beach with the wind blowing in the weather!

There's no beach at Chelmsford, that I'm aware of. I'm also not aware of the likely squad to be traveling to the South-East for Thursday's game. Essex's game today at the most pretty of grounds, Sedburgh School, was a no result but not before the Essex bowlers (Porter apart) took a bit of a pasting.

*Angular box update see below