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Match Report – NOTTS vs WORCS eighth Match, April 12 – 15, 2024

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Worcestershire 220 for six (Jones 90, Harrison 3-78) path Nottinghamshire 399 (Clarke 105, James 96, Smith 3-67) by 179 runs

After their in a single day seventh-wicket stand had lastly reached 146, Nottinghamshire had been on 399 at Trent Bridge when Lyndon James, final out, cruelly fell for 96. In 63 overs of their reply, Worcestershire then closed on 220 for six, 179 behind, the initative swinging sharply to the house facet with three wickets grasped within the final 65 minutes.

On the midway stage of a Vitality County Championship match performed on a pitch now six days previous, spin is coming to the fore. The leg-breaks of Calvin Harrison noticed him take away in succession Adam Hose, Rob Jones for 90 after which Jason Holder for a second-ball duck.

Although Dillon Pennington generated spectacular tempo to complete the day with two for 25 from 12 overs, Harrison took time to pose the issues that took him to a few for 78 in a single day. Jones, in his third innings since becoming a member of Worcestershire from Lancashire this season, arrived at 4 for 2 however accelerated with relish in night sunshine till the swift decline from 155 for 3.

It was a welcome return to runs earlier for James, who performed each match final marketing campaign however managed a prime rating of solely 50 after ending 2022 with a career-best 164 not out. Needing 27 from 30 balls for a 3rd batting level some 40 minutes into play, he helped guarantee 25 had been abruptly plundered from Adam Finch’s subsequent two overs.

However when his stand with Harrison, begun 25 minutes after tea on Friday, lastly ended half-hour from the scheduled lunch, James, then on 87, noticed two extra fall in 5 overs. Harrison miscued to a working, tumbling Jake Libby at deep mid-on for 52 earlier than Liam Patterson-White went to Brett D’Oliveira’s occasional leg-breaks, the captain then working out Luke Fletcher with a direct hit.

With the final pair collectively, the interval delayed and far-flung fields permitting him solely refused singles, James finally swatted a Finch full-toss that appeared waist-high straight to mid-wicket and lingered in useless for it to be referred to as no-ball.

There was no such doubt, nevertheless, concerning the peremptory finish of each Worcestershire openers inside eight balls of the reply. Fletcher, in his first match this yr, put behind him an injury-hit 2023 by eradicating Gareth Roderick with out rating and Pennington noticed Libby stupendously taken one-handed by Harrison, diving full size at third slip.

It was a uncommon failure for one in all 4 males on this sport taking part in in opposition to their previous facet as Libby, who left Nottingham in autumn 2019, fell for 2 after posting 1051 runs at 75.07 in his final 9 video games.

In an unstinting and hostile second spell of 9 overs, Pennington then ended a restoration to inside 20 minutes of tea that had added 78 and Kashif Ali had recommended he would possibly surge away as soon as extra following his two lots of within the opening sport.

On 40, nevertheless, his strokeplay grew too outrageous. Strolling away to leg and slashing onerous, he top-edged Pennington to deep backward level the place Jack Haynes took an excellent sprinting catch. By the interval it was 90 for 3 and one other 65 had been added at 4 an over earlier than Harrison’s late strikes.

Hose top-edged a pull and skied again to the bowler for a brisk 33 and Jones, too, returned a catch, one the Harrison sprawled to just accept, the umpires collectively deciding it had simply carried. When Holder edged to slide, Worcestershire had been left needing a giant seventh-wicket stand of their very own.


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