Fresh Fit File – Lancashire vs Notts North Team 2022

Lancashire 178 for 7 (Jennings 55) Nottinghamshire 91 (Livingstone 3-33) through 87 runs

Lancashire Lightning ended a run of 9 consecutive Trent Bridge defeats towards Notts Outlaws through brushing aside the house facet for 91 – equalling the bottom rating of their T20 historical past – and sending them crashing to a 87-run loss on this Power Blast North Team fit, their heaviest defeat within the pageant.

However after a catastrophic begin to their answer that noticed them 11 for 4 after 11 balls, they had been brushed aside throughout the fifteenth over. It used to be simplest thru a overdue thrash through Luke Fletcher, who cleared the ropes 3 times in his 22, that they controlled to pull their general to stage with the 91 that Lancashire brushed aside them for at Outdated Trafford in 2006.

Extra hassle adopted as Tom Moores used to be brilliantly stuck at the back of off his former team-mate Luke Picket – referred to as up previous within the day through England – and the house facet stumbled out of the powerplay at 34 for five.

Alex Hales, scratching round for shape up to now this season, introduced hope of a restoration with 3 barriers however controlled simplest to pick midwicket as he attempted to dispatch a deficient ball from Liam Livingstone, and after including 22 with Dan Christian, Matt Carter used to be leg earlier than to Hartley attempting to select up a moment consecutive 4.

Christian used to be stuck at deep backward sq., Jake Ball holed out to long-on and Fletcher, who clubbed sixes off Matt Parkinson and Livingstone two times, fell sufferer to a 3rd very good outfield catch through Steven Croft because the rout used to be finished.

After being requested to bat first, Lancashire had emerged in excellent form from the powerplay at 56 for 1, even though it will have to had been for 2, Jennings given a let-off on 27 when Outlaws keeper Moores didn’t take what will have to had been a regimen catch after Ball had discovered the threshold.

Clubbed for 4 and 6 through Jennings in the similar over, Ball may no longer cover his frustration, sensing he had a moment wicket after brushing aside Phil Salt by means of a catch that Moores did take. With Livingstone taking a look within the temper on the different finish, smashing Dane Paterson for 6 over his head and pulling Fletcher for some other, Lancashire had been neatly set at 88 for 1 after 10 overs.

However the second-wicket partnership used to be damaged two balls into the eleventh as Livingstone, who has a global T20 century in this floor, attempted to transparent the ropes once more off Paterson however simply despatched the ball upwards, Christian making himself rock secure to carry the catch at further duvet.

After a 20-minute stoppage for rain, Tim David had picked out deep midwicket off gradual left-armer Patel, after which Paterson picked up some other giant scalp as Jennings despatched one hovering into the air at the back of sq. at the leg facet, Fletcher staring at it swirl round within the floodlights earlier than finishing the catch, conserving the ball firmly in his grip regardless of hitting the bottom with a thud.

Even supposing Ball went for 17 within the seventeenth, the final 5 overs basically demonstrated Outlaws’ energy on the finish of an innings. Fletcher, mauled for 27 in his first two overs, gave over simplest 14 in his final two, choosing up the wickets of Dane Vilas and Croft for excellent measure, Ball wrapping up with a a lot better ultimate over as Lancashire completed with fewer runs than they more than likely expected on the midway level, even though in the end greater than sufficient.