Elstone sees Academy home at Wollaton

Scott Elstone had a break from 12th man duties scoring 71 in a successful 4 wicket winning run chase against Wollaton for Notts Academy.

v Durham T20

Hales on song for Outlaws

Morgan prime cut

Eoin Morgan top scored for England at Lord's in a rain interrupted innings against the old foe - Australia.


England 272/5
Eoin Morgan 89*
Jon Trott 54
Ian Bell 41
Alastair Cook 40 


Only Morgan got after the bowlers and so the game remained close.


David Warner 56, Michael Clarke 61 got the Aussies whilst shouting distance but ultimately the World # 1 ODI side fell 15 runs short.

Morgan Prime - chump! 17/07/12

In trouble with Middlesex because he was late arriving yesterday for a CB40 match against Lancashire, because he was stuck on a train!

Durham tomorrow

With an improving weather forecast; Notts Outlaws have announced the squad for the challenge of an also improving Durham Dynamos.


Michael Lumb, Alex Hales, Riki Wessels, James Taylor, Adam Voges, Chris Read, Steven Mullaney, Graeme White, Darren Pattinson, Harry Gurney, Andy Carter, Luke Fletcher, Scott Elstone,

Other Outlaws in possible action are Stuart Broad, England's MVP, Graeme Swann and Samit Patel who take on David Hussey and some other Australians.

One-eyed cricketer

Will Jones

Tykes go top

Yorkshire Carnegie last night beat the reigning Champions, Leicestershire Foxes, by 4 four runs to send the Yorkies to the top of the league and condemn Foxes to their 5th from 6 games defeat.

Australians get heavy in Essex

Michael Clarke retiring out on 76 and David Hussey scoring 67 were the mainstays of an Australian innings of 313/9 at Chelmsford. Only Reece Topley did himself any favours for Essex with 4/46.


Alastair Cook certainly didn't do himself any favours when it was his turn to bat, out for just 5.

Essex limped to 32.4 overs before being all out for 134, James Foster 41, Ravi Bopara 39. The Tourists won by 179 runs.

1 wicket behind Yasir Arafat 98 v 99

Azhar Mahmood, trying to reclaim the mantle of leading T20 wicket taker, had plans that went array when his four overs went for 61 runs with just 1 wicket, taking him to 98. Kent's opponents at Canterbury, Middlesex had a good day, 207/2, Joe Denly 90*, Paul Stirling 63, Eoin Morgan 36.
Kent replied with an opening stand of 80 but the innings fell away after that and the Panthers won by 48 runs.






At Wantage Road, Somerset toyed with the hapless Steelbacks, restricting them to 115/6. Somerset then raced to their target losing 3 wickets in the process in 13.4 overs; Craig Kieswetter 51, Con de Lange 3/22.

v Yorkshire T20 at Scarborough

Rain again by the sea

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.

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