He finished on an unbeaten 125 from 118 balls and saw Derbyshire through a tricky patch in which they lost three wickets in five overs in pursuit of a winning total of 251.
At 118-4 the game was in the balance, but captain Brooke Guest joined him in an unbroken stand of 133 in nineteen overs to ease the county to a comfortable win with seven overs to spare. Guest ended unbeaten on a run a ball 59, after earlier taking five catches in the home side's innings. Haider Ali contributed 38, earlier in the innings, though Tom Wood and Matt Lamb failed to get going.
Earlier four Lincolnshire batters managed to do so, including Jordan Cook, formerly on the staff at Nottinghamshire, who made an unbeaten 70 from 58 deliveries.
Sam Conners was the pick of the bowlers with 3-42, while Mattie McKiernan took 2-50 and Nick Potts 2-53.
It was a good workout for the side, who were again without Suranga Lakmal.
Big concerns about our bowling attack in this competition. If Lincolnshire can knock 250 off, what can top counties score?
ReplyDeleteYes I agree. Our attack is woefully thin. Unless of course we produce turning tracks for our three spinners? Some hope 🙄😔
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Different days, different pitches. And when we have 6 seamers on the staff, 2 are in the new compy and 2 injured, the selection is fairly easy. Conners did well, but Potts, at 20, can be expensive. To be honest, with deep batting, if we can keep teams to 250 we should win a few games!
ReplyDeleteIt was also a fairly small ground, so likely to be expected..
DeleteAnother big boost to Harry Came's confidence, with Guest also playing a captain's innings.
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