Worcestershire overcome Nottinghamshire by six wickets
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The hosts were given a target of 253 runs, which they achieved easily, losing just four wickets on the final day’s play, on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.
The highest score of the match came from Nottinghamshire’s skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Read-c1248, who scored an unbeaten 120 runs for his team in the second innings.
Read's team-mate, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Charles-Edward-Shreck-c49865, had the best bowling figures in the game, taking six wickets overall (including a five wicket haul in the first innings).
However, both players would have been terribly disappointed, finishing on the losing side.
Nottinghamshire posted 223 runs in their first outing after winning the toss and electing to bat first. The team’s opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Hendrik-Wessels-c75170, was in good touch, scoring 67 runs at the top of the order.
However, there wasn’t much support for Wessels, as none of the other batsmen in the visitors’ line up managed to take his score beyond 50. Read offered some resistance in the lower-order, scoring 37 runs. His cameo guided the team’s total above 200, which
looked difficult at one stage of the innings.
The home team’s new ball bowlers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alan-Richardson-c42776, were in terrific form and shared three wickets each.
Worcestershire failed to take advantage of the low score posted by the opposition. The hosts were bowled out for 243 in their first outing. This gave them an overall first innings lead of just 20 runs.
The home team’s captain, Moeen Ali, was in terrific form. He was the top scorer for his team, scoring 84 runs with the help of 11 fours and one six. However, none of the other batsmen in the team managed to trouble the bowlers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-Muchall-c1499.
Shreck was in sensational form, taking five wickets in the innings for the visitors.
Nottinghamshire were in deep trouble once they came out to bat in their second innings. The team lost five wickets with just 61 runs on the board and an overall lead of 41.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Samit-Patel-c2426 rescued the visitors from trouble, piling up a partnership of 93 runs for the sixth wicket. Patel got out after scoring 84 runs, but the team’s captain carried onto complete a superb century. He declared the innings after an
overall lead of 254 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nottinghamshire-c826 wickets, but the visitors recovered well, posting a decent target for the opposition.
Worcestershire got off to a bad start to the chase, losing opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vikram-Singh-Solanki-c95274, changed the complexion of the match. They ended up with 54 and 85 runs respectively.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alexei-Nicolaas-Kervezee-c43287 scored unbeaten 35 and 40, guiding their team to victory in the match.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 grabbed a couple of wickets in the innings, but his efforts went in vain, as the match was won by the hosts.
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