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Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire - County Championship Division One - 3rd Day Update

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Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire - County Championship Division One - 3rd Day Update
Nottinghamshire 118 & 403 v Worcestershire 130 & 258/6 (85.0 ov) - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Worcestershire-c866 require another 134 runs with 4 wickets remaining
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nottinghamshire-c826 after ending their second innings on the second day of the ongoing County Championship Division One four-day match against Worcestershire on 355 runs for the loss of seven wickets, resumed their batting on the third day, April 07, at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
The side aimed to amass a staggering total on the board in front of a cheering home crowd to give the visitors a tough total to chase.
MH Wessels, who had belted an unbeaten innings of 104 runs a day earlier, was the trump card for Nottinghamshire, as they were counting on the batsman to steer them towards a daunting total.
However, the first wicket of the day fell a bit sooner than the batting side had wanted as, Graeme White, departed after scoring just four runs. At the time of his wicket, Nottinghamshire were comfortably standing on a tally of 361 runs.
This brought http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 and with him in the middle, Wessels launched a teasing batting onslaught to force the fielding side into submission.
The batsman, who had played a nerve-wracking innings, finally fell after hammering a stupendous knock of 113 runs, leaving his team standing proud on 389 runs.
Later, with Adams clobbering a knock of 25 runs, Nottinghamshire ended their innings on an intimidating total of 403 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alan-Richardson-c42776 from Worcestershire, was the pick of the bowlers as he grabbed five Nottinghamshire wickets.
With a clear target of 392 runs to win the game, Worcestershire began their innings aiming to grab a win by the end of the match.
However, by the time they had amassed 61 runs on the board; they were two wickets down and needed their batsmen to hold their own in order to subdue the raging Nottinghamshire unit.
The partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Moeen-Ali-c1990 was the corner stone in Worcestershire’s innings as the batsmen played exceptionally well and amassed massive knocks of 102 and 94 runs before losing their wickets.
By stumps on the penultimate day of play, Worcestershire needed 134 runs to win the game with four wickets in hand.
 
 

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