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Post by Admin on May 13, 2024 13:07:05 GMT
Surprised this is still going. Give it 90 minutes probably won’t be |
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Post by exile on May 13, 2024 13:10:10 GMT
The end is nigh...
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Post by hengog on May 13, 2024 13:21:49 GMT
Century for Hurst!
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Post by MickeyG on May 13, 2024 13:22:26 GMT
Fair play Hursty.
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2024 13:36:07 GMT
81 needed
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Post by exile on May 13, 2024 14:11:53 GMT
9/10 wicket defeat looming. This will be the third bad defeat in five games and we would probably have lost to Surrey but for the weather. Can anyone remember a worse start to a Div 1 season?
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Post by man in the stand on May 13, 2024 14:45:24 GMT
In the relegation season of 2012 we lost 5 games (a third) though that was out of 16 games. Today's equivalent would be 4 losses in a season.
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2024 14:54:03 GMT
9 wickets it was, didn’t get Hameed out meanwhile Gloucestershire win for the first time in two years
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Post by Phil on May 13, 2024 15:05:20 GMT
9 wickets it was, didn’t get Hameed out meanwhile Gloucestershire win for the first time in two years We've got that to come if Frankenstein stays as coach! |
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2024 15:49:40 GMT
Nottinghamshire 503 (Hameed 247*, Stone 90, Balderson 4-102) and 81 for 1 beat Lancashire 331 (Jennings 91, Bruce 73, Stone 3-56) and 252 (Hurst 104, Hartley 50, Pennington 4-61) by 72 runs
A maiden first-class century from young wicketkeeper Matthew Hurst could not stop Nottinghamshire completing a nine-wicket first victory of the season in their Vitality County Championship match at Trent Bridge.
Nottinghamshire had begun the final day of this Division One clash sniffing an innings win, holding a 72-run advantage with Lancashire six down. Yet 20-year-old Hurst defied them with an impressive 104 that included 10 fours and four sixes.
Lancashire were dismissed for 252, leaving the home side needing just 81 to win with 50 overs remaining, so the result was never in serious doubt, but given that they had been 61 for six on the third evening, the visitors could console themselves with having put up a fight.
Hurst and England spinner Tom Hartley (50) were the principal sources of frustration for Nottinghamshire, sharing a seventh-wicket stand of 116.
Dillon Pennington, who delivered several spells of top-class fast bowling over both innings, was rewarded with figures of four for 61, his best return so far for Nottinghamshire after moving from Worcestershire over the winter, before the home side wrapped up a 22-points win in 18.4 overs with opener Ben Slater their only loss.
Lancashire remain bottom of Division One after three defeats in their opening five matches, while Nottinghamshire have their first win under new red-ball captain Haseeb Hameed, whose magnificent unbeaten 247 in their first innings was the biggest component in their victory. Opener Hameed, who finished 24 not out in his second innings, was on the field for every minute of the contest
When Hartley joined Hurst at 61 for six on Sunday, a target of 172 just to make the home side bat a second time was looking beyond Lancashire.
But having battled through to the close, the pair set themselves again on the fourth morning, determined that those efforts would not go to waste.
They began with Nottinghamshire, who had made 501 in reply to Lancashire’s first-innings 331, still comfortably ahead and at short odds to get the job done ahead of the lunch interval.
But after seeing off Pennington and Olly Stone through their opening overs, the two kept their focus well enough to survive the first hour unscathed and grew confident enough as the ball began to lose its hardness to up the tempo, Hurst greeting leg-spinner Calvin Harrison’s appearance in the attack with a six over long-on.
An on-drive for four by Hurst off Harrison took the partnership into three figures. The pugnacious right-hander was dropped by Harrison at slip off Lyndon James on 46 but quickly completed his fifty from 87 balls, bringing the scores level in the same over.
Hartley’s half-century came off 98 balls with seven fours but he could not add to it before Harrison atoned for his earlier error with a fine catch at second slip as James at last achieved a breakthrough.
Pennington then had too much pace for Tom Bailey, who was dismissed leg before just ahead of lunch, Lancashire heading for the dining room with a lead of just 26 and only two wickets in hand.
With Phil Salt currently playing in the Indian Premier League, Hurst has made himself first-choice ‘keeper in the Lancashire squad but would justify his place as a batter on the evidence so far.
He had three half-centuries in nine first-class innings before this match and had the confidence to take on the likes of England speed merchant Stone and the similarly pacy Pennington despite suffering a painful blow on his bottom hand facing James just before lunch.
After Harrison’s dismissal of Will Williams left him and Saqib Mahmood as the last men standing, Hurst hammered Stone over the wide midwicket boundary and cleared the rope twice in the same James over to go to his hundred, before another attempt at a maximum saw him caught at deep midwicket off Harrison.
Mahmood ended Slater’s attempt to bring a rapid conclusion by having him caught behind for 31 off 32 balls but Hameed and Will Young guided Nottinghamshire to the finish line with no further alarms.
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Post by John W on May 13, 2024 20:07:01 GMT
The skippers take on things. Some hard hitting questions from 'safe hands' Scott - not!
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Post by anyportinastorm on May 13, 2024 20:18:46 GMT
The skippers take on things. Some hard hitting questions from 'safe hands' Scott - not! What is the point of Read? At the very least he first question should be This is incredibly poor skipper what is going on on and off the pitch? Supporters want to know. |
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Post by man in the stand on May 14, 2024 11:27:42 GMT
Looking back on this match electing to bat and scoring 331 runs was a good start for Lancs . The problem was then we had only two effective bowlers - Balderson and Williams. So not surprisingly Notts scored 500+. Even if our 2nd innings had been more than 252 I doubt if Lancs could have bowled Notts out.
Not sure what we can do for seam at Blackpool. Perhaps Blatherwick or maybe Jimmy might like a warm up game?
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Post by sillypoint on May 14, 2024 12:29:59 GMT
Dillon Pennington, who was the pick of the Notts seamers, joined Notts from Worcester this year. Did we try to sign him? If not, why not. If we did, then why did he choose Notts. Was it money, the coaching staff or something else. These questions need answering. He would have been perfect for us.
If Mahmood has come through unscathed, I imagine it will be the same team, other than Lyon for Hartley. There aren't too many other options.
Blackpool has historically offered some turn, albeit the match is usually played later in the year. It didn't last year, however, although that match was played with the Kookaburra ball. Over 30mm of rain the last two days, so that will test the new drainage at the ground.
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Post by Phil on May 14, 2024 13:37:07 GMT
The skippers take on things. Some hard hitting questions from 'safe hands' Scott - not! What is the point of Read? At the very least he first question should be This is incredibly poor skipper what is going on on and off the pitch? Supporters want to know. It's a difficult one for Scott Read, if he probes too much the players will refuse to speak to him, and in the end Read is the one who would lose his job. I've seen it happen in football circles. |
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