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Metro Bank One Day Cup - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 3rd August
Metro Bank One Day Cup - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Stats and Scorecards for 3rd August.
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Essex vs Nottinghamshire, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Dane Paterson blasted through the Essex batting with four wickets to set up an unlikely 168-run victory in Notts Outlaws’ opening Metro Bank One-Day Cup match of the season.
The South African finished with figures of four for 30 as Essex were dismissed for just 69 in 25.1 overs at Chelmsford. It narrowly beat Essex’s lowest List A total of 57 which they managed in the NatWest Cup final at Lord’s in 1996 against Lancashire.
Set 238 to win, Essex were five down inside a dozen overs with only 31 on the board and the wickets continued to fall with great regularity.
It had been the same earlier on a benign wicket with Aaron Beard tearing a hole in Notts batting line-up with career-best List A figures of four for 32 as the Outlaws, put in, lost their last nine wickets for 66 runs.
The Outlaws’ rollercoaster innings was indebted to a century first-wicket partnership that was only ended when 20-year-old rookie Ben Martindale – making only his second first-team appearance – attempted to reverse-sweep part-time spinner Tom Westley and was lbw for 55 from 58 balls.
The openers had survived two dropped catches and a couple of potential run-out mix-ups, as well as being becalmed when Jamie Porter and Beard bowled back-to-back maiden overs. But both cut loose from the early shackles, finding gaps and trading boundaries, with Martindale hitting Porter for three of his eight in one over.
Ben Slater was slightly more circumspect requiring 15 more balls in reaching his fifty, though he did pull Aron Nijjar for six as well as adding seven fours in a 101-ball 79.
The second wicket between Slater and Lyndon James added 64 runs, but a three-wicket burst in nine balls by Beard marked the start of a plethora of wickets as Notts collapsed in just 14 overs from a promising 171-1 to 237 all out with 25 balls unused.
Slater perished when he miscued and chipped to mid-on. Haseeb Hameed lasted just seven balls before he dragged on and James took a wild swing to end a 40-ball 32 which unusually did not include a boundary.
When Ben Allison took over from Beard at the River End, he had Matthew Montgomery caught from his second ball to a running catch by Westley at mid-on.
Essex’s Tasmanian all-rounder Beau Webster bowled his first two overs as a seamer, but then changed to off-spin and had Liam Patterson-White slicing to short third man.
Dane Schadendorf and Calvin Harrison exited in quick succession, both playing down the wrong line to deliveries from Nijjar and Westley respectively. Tom Loten patted a full-toss back to Webster and Beard wrapped things up with his fourth wicket by bowling Brett Hutton.
However, the clatter of wickets was not interrupted by the change of innings. Essex lost Josh Rymell lbw to the ninth ball of their reply when he tried to flick Paterson off his legs. Eight balls later Robin Das followed, playing all around one from Hutton to be bowled.
It was 11-3 in the sixth over when Paterson found some late movement to take the edge of Westley’s bat, and 16-4 two overs later when Noah Thain took a swipe outside off-stump and was snatched above his head at second slip.
Calvin Harrison was the lone slip four overs later when he dived to his left to claim Webster to another outside edge and provide Paterson with a fourth wicket
Charlie Allison dragged Loten through midwicket for only the third boundary of the Essex innings but played on next ball for 13.
The elder Allison, Ben, stayed for just four balls before hooking Hutton to deep fine leg and the following ball Beard was leg before to one that stopped.
Nijjar took Essex past 50 with a pulled four that earnt ironic cheers from a sizeable Chelmsford crowd. But once Essex had passed their lowest total in the competition, he was run out at the non-striker’s end by a direct throw from Hameed.
Harrison took the last wicket with his only ball in the game when had Porter caught at mid-on.
Quotes By Martin Smith at Chelmsford
Essex head coach Anthony McGrath said: “We were a bit unlucky early on in the Nottinghamshire innings when we passed the bat on a number of occasions and a couple of catches went down which could have made a difference. All credit to them they played well. It certainly wasn’t going to be a 350 wicket and we did well to come back after their first two wickets put on a 171 and we were confident at the half-way stage that we could to their final total.
“But we were nowhere good enough with the bat. I admit they have got an experienced attack, but we led to our own downfall with a number of poor shots and poor execution. It was a bad day at the office.
“When they were 171 for one to bowl them out for 237 was an outstanding effort by our bowlers and it’s a score in 50 overs at Chelmsford that you should be able to chase down. After those opening two wickets from them we managed to restrict their run-rate and we were delighted with our performance in the last 20 overs. But our batting display in that first 10 overs or so was mighty disappointing.
“In the Championship we have been so consistent and this 50 overs competition is a chance for those fringe players who have been banging on the door asking for a chance for them to shine. But if you are not doing it in this competition you are not going to do it in the Championship and so for the guys who want their first team opportunities, well, this is a big competition for them.
“We must realise that we have got a smaller squad than a number of sides and we had two lads today straight out of the academy, which is great for them but we have got a few lads who are more senior who should be doing better in this competition.
“We saw some good performances from them last year and there are still plenty of games for them to show their abilities in this competition this year. But I expect a helluva lot better than we did today.”
Notts Outlaws’ Dane Paterson said: “Without taking any respect away from Essex _ they are a good team – so, yes, it was a bit surprising I would say. But I think as a bowling unit we took a couple of notes of how out batsmen played in our innings. When we were bowling at the stumps they found it a bit difficult. The wicket was a bit slow in the first innings, but it just quickened up a tad in the second innings and we ended up getting those nicks.
“We always ask the batters what was easy to score off, what was hard to score off, how the wicket’s playing, what the bowlers are doing etc. I think it is just watching the game, looking and learning. It’s always important to take notes from other teams. We felt if we bowled to our potential we could be successful.
“That we only got 237 left me a little frustrated because I didn’t feel as a batting unit we were in control from over 30 to over 45 when we were bowled out. I think that is something we need to learn from and take into the next game. As a bowling unit we knew we needed to strike early. Luckily we got our rewards.
“It was a good cricket wicket. Once the ball started doing less it was easier to score but if you are going to bowl good balls to the batsmen you are going to test their technique. That’s what we tried to do. We said if they hit good cricket shots off the bowling we don’t mind so long as we don’t bowl too many bad balls.
“I actually saw Ben [Martindale] a year ago and I was like, ‘Wow, we’ve got something on our hands here’. For a 20-year-old to come in and play as confidently is fantastic. I think just the way he goes about it, he’s very professional for a 20 year old, He works hard, he trains hard, it’s just good to see a youngster taking his chance. He’s hungry to play more first-team cricket.
“I think we can kick on in the competition from here. The games come thick and fast. It’s a good start and we just need to carry on and kick on, not to be afraid and just express ourselves and play our brand of cricket.”
Surrey vs Leicestershire, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Ben Foakes’ maiden List A hundred could not prevent Leicestershire Foxes from kicking off their Metro Bank One-Day Cup Group A campaign with an impressive five-wicket victory against Surrey at the Kia Oval. It was their highest winning total, chasing, in all one-day cricket.
Louis Kimber smashed five sixes in a brutal 89 not out off 62 balls and Wiaan Mulder struck three of his own in a 53-ball 67 not out as Leicestershire won with a comfortable 7.4 overs to spare at 329 for five. With only two players lost to the Hundred, compared to Surrey’s 13, the Foxes look a good outside bet for this year’s 50-over competition.
Foakes hit two sixes and eight fours in 106 from 107 balls while Ben Geddes sprinted to 67 off just 39 balls in the closing overs of Surrey’s 325 all out, in which seamer Tom Scriven finished with a one-day best of five for 66.
But Mulder and Kimber’s unbroken stand of 146 in 18.1 overs, a Foxes List A sixth wicket record against Surrey, swept Leicestershire home after Peter Handscomb’s 54-ball 57 and an excellent 46 from 37 balls by Lewis Hill had helped to propel them to 186 for five at the halfway stage of their reply.
Foakes was unable to keep wicket after suffering a knee niggle when batting and Josh Blake, substituting for him behind the stumps, caught Hill off a gloved sweep at Cameron Steel.
Rishi Patel and Sol Budinger got the Foxes off to a fast start before both were caught at mid on, for 16 and 33, off Matt Dunn and Conor McKerr respectively.
Hill and Handscomb added 79 in ten overs for the third wicket but Colin Ackermann was needlessly run out for 10, sent back after turning for a third run that was never there, and Handscomb cut a near-wide from leg-spinner Steel to point.
Mulder, however, was soon pulling Steel for six to bring up Leicestershire’s 200 in the 27th over, punching an extra cover four and swinging a legside six off McKerr. Kimber, meanwhile, pulled McKerr for six, off drove Dan Moriarty for another maximum and virtually settled matters by taking 21 from the 36th over, bowled by Dunn, with three sixes hooked and pulled over the longer boundary.
Surrey’s innings, which stuttered at first after Leicestershire had chosen to bowl, was built around Foakes’ typically elegant effort and rounded off by a burst of spectacular hitting by Geddes, the promising 24-year-old batsman in at No 7 with orders to shepherd the tail to a respectable total.
Steel, too, played his part with a quickfire 40-ball 50 that included legside sixes off Ackermann and Josh Hull, a 6ft 7in tall teenage left-arm quick making his List A debut. Steel, who came in with Surrey in a hint of bother at 129 for four in the 23rd over, helped Foakes to add 95 in 14 overs for the fifth wicket.
Foakes had cruised to fifty from 55 balls, having initially stabilized the innings in a partnership worth 66 with Dom Sibley, who had seen fellow opener Ryan Patel edge low to slip on 17 and skipper Rory Burns depart looking distinctly disgruntled at being adjudged caught behind for five from a fine ball from Chris Wright that pitched on leg stump and jagged across him.
Sibley’s 34 from 40 balls ended when he nicked a flat-footed drive at Hull to the keeper and Jordan Clark hoisted Scriven for six before his cameo of 19 was cut short by an attempted back foot force against the same bowler that he dragged down into his stumps.
Foakes began to accelerate when he clubbed Mulder’s medium pace high over the short boundary on the Harleyford Road side and he then earned himself another six by just clearing deep mid wicket with a pull off Hull, followed by a rasping square cut for four two balls later.
He was soon past his previous List A best of 92 while Steel swung Ackermann’s off breaks over the long boundary and collected a further maximum with a whiplash pull off Hull.
Steel fell to a low catch, confirmed after an umpires’ discussion and taken at the second attempt by Patel at mid on as he dived forward to scoop up a miscue off Scriven, leaving Foakes to complete his hundred in the 39th over but then top-edge a pull at the same bowler high into the air for keeper Handscomb to claim.
Geddes began by striking Scriven way over the long on rope but saw the innings threaten to peter out after McKerr was well caught on the boundary for a handy 13, Yousef Majid bowled for two and Moriarty caught at deep mid on for a five-ball duck.
The response from Geddes was to hit three sixes from the first four balls of the final over, over extra cover, straight and to square cover before he was caught from the fifth ball attempting a repeat of his last scoring shot.
Yorkshire vs Lancashire, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
The Metro Bank One-Day Cup Roses clash between Yorkshire Vikings and Lancashire was abandoned due to a wet pitch at Scarborough.
Heavy rain throughout yesterday and into the evening made way for overcast conditions this morning, but water had got under the covers at the Peasholm Park End of the cut pitch.
The ground-staff attempted to dry the problem area by draping it in towels and going over it with the heavy roller.
But, after four inspections, umpires Sue Redfern and Naeem Ashraf called the fixture off at 1.15pm. By that time, it was actually raining.
It was Lancashire’s second successive No Result to start their Group A campaign after Tuesday’s clash with Essex Eagles at Sedbergh was limited to 42 overs. The hosts made 270 for seven from 36 overs before Essex replied with 23 for two from six overs.
Yorkshire claimed their first point of the campaign after they lost their opener against champions Kent Spitfires at Scarborough on Tuesday, by two runs on Duckworth Lewis Stern.
After posting 282 for nine from their 50 overs, Kent limited Yorkshire to 117 for four in 17 overs - three runs short of victory.
This was more Roses frustration at Scarborough.
In the summer of 2020, a Championship clash between the two here was cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The following summer, ongoing social distancing rules forced another scheduled Championship match to be switched back to Headingley at the last minute.
The last time these two counties took the field at North Marine Road was in a 1991 Championship fixture which Yorkshire won.
The Vikings are next in One-Day Cup action against Nottinghamshire Outlaws at Trent Bridge on Saturday, while Lancashire face champions Kent at Blackpool next Wednesday in a repeat of last season’s final.
Yorkshire coach Ottis Gibson said:
“They’re piling up on top of each other these disappointments.
“Of course, there’s nothing you can do about it, but it doesn’t make it any less disappointing.
“All of yesterday in the hotel, when I saw the amount of rain falling on top of what had already fallen last week, I didn’t think we’d have a chance.
“Then I came to the ground this morning, and the ground looked ok. But the wicket, the groundsman said that with the amount of rain we had yesterday that some water had seeped under the covers. It’s just frustrating for everyone.”
Lancashire’s One-Day Cup coach Graham Onions said:
“It’s unbelievably disappointing. It was a great crowd and a Roses match, and it was just one of those occasions where water has got under the covers and made it unplayable.
“There were a couple of areas of concern had we got on the pitch.
“Being an ex-bowler, the foot-holes at one end were very wet. The groundsman tried his best to fill it in to make it hard, like you do during a four-day game. That could potentially have made a difference. But the rain came again and the ground wasn’t fit, unfortunately.
“Last night when we came to the ground, we thought that it would be a good effort to get a game in. Then when we walked across the outfield this morning, we thought we might have a good chance of starting at 11am. Then, as soon we looked at the pitch, it was clear the damage had been done.”
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