http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Worcestershire-c866: Friends Life T20 - Adam Voges leads Nottinghamshire to victory - First Innings Recap
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Charles-Voges-c41889 guided Nottinghamshire to a comfortable, 25-run victory, over Worcestershire, in a match of the Friends Life T20, at the Trent Bridge, Nottingham in England, on Friday, July 15, 2011.
The hosts collected 167 runs for the loss of six wickets in their allotted 20 overs. The highlight of the innings was a terrific half-century from Voges, who top scored the match with 55 runs.
Worcestershire kept on losing wickets in their outing, which didn’t help their cause in the end. The team was all-out for 142 in 19.3 overs. The highest score of the innings came from the team’s skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daryl-Keith-Henry-Mitchell-c52532, who contributed 45 runs to the total.
Voges, who is the skipper of Nottinghamshire in the absence of countryman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-John-Hussey-c52953, opted to bat first after winning the toss. The pitch was hard and batting first was a better choice, as the wicket was expected to get slower with the passage of time.
Nottinghamshire’s start was not a good one, as the team lost a few of wickets early in the innings. Bangladesh’s star opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tamim-Iqbal-Khan-c92687, was the first man to be dismissed in the innings after failing to trouble the scorers.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Samit-Patel-c2426, who was unable to make an impression and returned to the pavilion for a duck.
The hosts were in a spot of bother at that stage of the innings, but the innings was stabilised by their captain and seasoned player, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Hendrik-Wessels-c75170. The pair put together 63 runs for the fourth wicket partnership, guiding their side closer to 100.
Voges got out after scoring a brilliant fifty for his team. He really played a captain’s knock, scoring 55 runs off 40 balls with the help of eight boundaries. He didn’t take too many chances and took calculated risks in his impressive performance.
Just 10 runs later, Wessels was also dismissed, putting the hosts back under pressure. He got out after collecting 33 runs from 28 balls, smashing four boundaries in his outing.
However, wicketkeeper batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Steven-John-Mullaney-c91313 collected 54 runs for the sixth wicket partnership, guiding their side to a respectable total in the end.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Read-c84446 was dismissed in the final over of the innings after scoring 20 runs off just 16 balls, but Mullaney batted until the end and scored 35 runs from 21 deliveries.
Jack Shantry was the only bowler from Worcestershire to cause a few problems for the opposition, as he picked up three wickets.
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