Voges’ effort is all in vain
0 Comments | Nottingham Evening Post, Aug 30, 2010
A VALIANT 71 not out from Australian Adam Voges was not enough to prevent Nottinghamshire Outlaws from slipping to their third Clydesdale Bank 40 defeat and dampen their hopes of reaching the semi-finals.
In a nail-biting finish, Voges could only drive the last ball from Josh Cobb weakly to mid-on for none as Leicestershire ran out the winners by four runs at Trent Bridge.
Voges received little support from his Notts team-mates, with captain Chris Read (32) the only man to offer more than a cameo, with Leicestershire captain Matthew Hoggard picking up 3-43.
Earlier, 60 from Matthew Boyce and 58 from James Taylor helped Leicestershire to reach 219-7 from their 40 overs, with England U19 seamer Jacob Ball picking up 3-32 in his first appearance of the season.
After Luke Fletcher had made the early breakthrough with James Benning caught at cover, Ball picked up two wickets in his second over, with Jacques du Toit playing on and Cobb bowled with a beautiful off-cutter.
And the Notts Academy graduate’s day got even better in his following over when Greg Smith chased a wide delivery to edge behind.
But a partnership of 114 in 21 overs between Boyce and Taylor recovered the situation.
The batting powerplay yielded 45 of those runs and also saw Boyce dismissed lbw by Samit Patel, while an unbeaten cameo 33 from Tom New, featuring four fours and a six, provided a timely boost at the death.
Voges only arrived from Australia at 7pm on Saturday but seemed free of jet-lag when he arrived at the crease in the 15th over, after Alex Hales, Akhil Patel and Matt Wood had fallen.
And while Patel also returned to the pavilion two overs later, Voges found the gaps with nudged singles in tandem with Read to keep Notts in sight of the required run-rate.
Benning’s medium-pace proved particularly hard to get away, and with Notts forced to up the pace in the last ten overs, wickets began to fall.
Read pulled Hoggard to deep square leg and Steven Mullaney edged behind in the former England star’s next over.
Despite Voges’ best efforts, his bowlers were unable to contribute with the bat, Graeme White bowled by Naik, Fletcher lbw to Hoggard and Ball stumped off Cobb in the final over.
Notts will now need to win both their remaining group matches – concluded by a trip to Edgbaston next weekend – to overtake Warwickshire and claim a semi-final spot.
Scorecard Leicestershire beat Notts by 4 runs LEICESTERSHIRE Innings Benning c S R Patel b Fletcher………….. 11 du Toit b Ball …………………………………… 25 Cobb b Ball …………………………………….. 11 Taylor b Sidebottom………………………….58 Smith c Read b Ball …………………………. 11 Boyce lbw b S R Patel ……………………… 60 New not out ……………………………………. 33 Naik run out ……………………………………… 1 Hoggard not out ……………………………….. 3 Extras ………………………………………………. 6 Total 7 wkts (40 overs) ………………. 219 Fall: 1-19 2-49 3-50 4-64 5- 178 6-209 7-210 Sidebottom 8-0-42-1, Fletcher 8-1-60-1, Ball 8-0-32- 3, Mullaney 5-0-30-0, S R Patel 8-0-41-1, G G White 3-0-12-0. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Innings Hales lbw b Wyatt ……………………………. 11 Patel lbw b Gurney…………………………….22 Wood c Cobb b Benning ……………………19 Patel c Naik b Benning ………………………17 Voges not out …………………………………..71 Read c du Toit b Hoggard…………………..32 Mullaney c New b Hoggard ………………….8 White b Naik……………………………………..14 Fletcher lbw b Hoggard ……………………….0 Ball st New b Cobb……………………………..6 Sidebottom not out …………………………….1 Extras ………………………………………………14 Total 9 wkts (40 overs) ………………..215 Fall: 1-19 2-42 3-65 4-72 5- 138 6-152 7-184 8-185 9-214 Gurney 8-1-42-1, Wyatt 3-0-24-1, Hoggard 8-0-43-3, Benning 8-0-29-2, Naik 8-0-48-1, Cobb 5-0-25-1,
Clydesdale Bank 40 Group C PW L T NrPtsRR Warwicks ………… 10 7 3 0 0 14 .27 NOTTS……………. 10 6 3 0 1 13 .51 Hants ……………… 11 6 5 0 0 12 .04 Kent ……………….. 10 5 3 0 2 12 .76 Durham …………… 10 5 4 0 1 11 .43 Leics ………………
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