Nottinghamshire overcome Worcestershire by 10 runs: Friends Life Twenty20 - Second Innings Recap
Worcestershire would have been pleased to restrict Nottinghamshire to 152 in a match of the Friends Life Twenty20, at the County Ground, New Road, Worcester in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 on Tuesday, July 5, 2011.
The visitors were cruising at one stage of the innings with 69 for no loss, but Pakistan’s, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859, helped his team fight back in the match with a brilliant three-wicket haul.
However, Worcestershire’s batting didn’t live up to the expectations and were restricted to 142 for the loss of five wickets at the end of their allotted 20 overs, despite a magnificent half-century from opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Moeen-Ali-c1990.
The pitch became a little bit difficult to bat on with the passage of time, as the ball didn’t come onto the bat as the players would have expected. However, the hard new ball gave the opportunity to the home team’s openers to attack the opposition.
Worcestershire’s start was almost identical to their opposition, as their openers, Ali and Jack Manuel put together 69 runs for the first wicket stand. The minor difference was that they played one extra ball in the partnership before the latter was dismissed
for 21 runs off 19 balls.
Ali played exceptionally well though, as he attacked the bowlers and scored his runs quickly. The stylish opener collected 51 runs from 36 deliveries with the help of 10 beautifully timed boundaries. He was dismissed in the 10th over of the innings,
but the team was in control of the match at that stage.
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Shakib was dismissed after scoring 20 runs from 22 balls with the help of one four. Just one run later, Kervezee was also sent back to the pavilion after contributing 21 runs to the total off the same number of deliveries.
Worcestershire required 36 runs for victory off the last 24 balls and it wasn’t a much difficult task, as they had plenty of batting left. However, the middle-order batsmen failed to cope with the pressure and failed to reach the target.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Worcestershire-c866. The team was left disappointed at 142/5 in the end, losing the match by 10 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Samit-Patel-c2426 used the conditions well, taking one wicket for 21 runs in his four-over spell.
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