Derbyshire 162-9 (Donald 50, Madsen 35, Whiteley 31 Patterson-White 3-20, Pennington 3-40)
Nottinghamshire 120-3 in 14 overs (James 43, Haynes 43)
Nottinghamshire won on D/L
Having lost the toss and been asked to bat, they never really came to terms with the pitch, with the exception of Nye Donald, who showed a welcome return to form with fifty from 22 deliveries.
He batted very well, but like a lot of his teammates rather gave it away, attempting to hit Patterson-White into Pentagon Island, rather than having a look for a couple of deliveries, as he had against the quicks. His timing was stunning, but I would love to see him convert one of these quick 50s into something special.
Caleb Jewell was late on a pull and top-edged to fine leg, David Lloyd uppercut to a third man he must surely have seen and Samit Patel top-edged another short ball to deep square leg. When Martin Andersson walked around a straight delivery from Patterson-White, things were not looking good.
Madsen and Whiteley restored some semblance of decency to the score, but Ross disappointingly holed out on the fence after a few good shots, while Madsen and Guest struggled for their timing in the closing overs against clever bowling by the visiting spinners.
162-9 didn't look close to enough and so it transpired. Although Aitchison, who again bowled well, removed Clarke early, the target was far from difficult and Haynes and James were able to eschew risk and just knock it around. It was a surprise when Haynes mistimed a drive against Brown and was caught by Madsen, skippering the side in the absence of Patel, who had aggravated a calf injury and couldn't bowl.
I thought Ghazanfar bowled too short today and appeared to be struggling with his run up for some reason. The Derbyshire fielding was again sub-standard and the result was a foregone conclusion a long time before the winning run was hit. Even though James went the same way as Haynes, this time off Andersson, Derbyshire will rue the collective batting inadequacy that has left them with a mountain to climb in this competition.
Your correspondent has already decided this isn't our year. For Derbyshire to compete, both the batting and bowling units need to work in unison. Without a massive turnaround, winning at least eight of the next eleven seems a distant pipedream
At this stage, they simply aren't coming close. As a side Derbyshire are as disjointed in this format as they are cohesive in red ball cricket, with injuries, team selection and poor fielding all playing a part.
It was a chastising night. After all of the build up and talk of East Midlands 'bragging rights', I'm afraid this one goes down as one of the dampest of squibs.
Even the power went off in sympathy, an area-wide National Grid power cut that interrupted the game.
Sadly, a couple of hours late..
When the players surprisingly came back on after 10pm, Nottinghamshire needed twelve runs from fifteen deliveries, something they accomplished with the ease that the rest of the evening had been for them.
Sadly as I and others predicted we were well-beaten in all aspects of the game. The side looks disjointed and frankly not good enough. Take a close look at Northants. They are playing fantastic cricket and look to be on course to success.
ReplyDeleteThat was a fairly mundane performance.The total looked 25 short of par and the bowling unit was hampered by Patels injury .Looking at the table !6 teams wrestling for 4th place already .Even when the lights were on only a couple of our players were at home !!!
ReplyDeleteI assume very few were left for the final rites. We were back in Chesterfield by then. Very poor. Feared the worst as soon as the toss was lost and so it proved. Also predicted Donald would get out to the first ball from the spinner.
ReplyDeleteThink everyone watching said the same as your last point. So totally and depressingly predictable.
DeleteNot a great night. Injuries and poor fielding, didn't help our rhythm. Andersson looks like a guy who doesn't quite know what his role is yet, understandable as he seems to bat all over. We haven't had a decent death bower since Zaman Khan a couple of years ago. Both our overseas failed tonight, but at least Donald had a good hit. It's all about regaining some pride and taking it from there. Kris
ReplyDeleteThe bowling looks very ordinary and there's a very few batters who shouldn't be in the team
ReplyDeleteThere doesn't seem to be any kind of plan in place and the team doesn't have an identity
And for a local rivalry the ground had all the noise of a local library.
Very very poor
Apart from Donald going on the rampage, this was a lack lustre performance. For whatever reason, things aren't clicking together in the T20. Several players have been performing below par. It would need a phenomenal effort to progress from this point.
ReplyDeleteFurther confirms my post that we should put all our thoughts into getting promotion in the championship this season. We're not good enough in this format, never have been really and this could end up being our worst effort in years
ReplyDeleteThat was a poor performance. Careless batting & a team that at times seemed to be going through the motions. Very disappointing
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A thoroughly dispiriting evening. After a very welcome but all too brief explosive innings from Donald, our middle order folded like a pack of cards and although there was a little late resistance from Madsen, Whiteley and Guest , our total always looked inadequate. Notts cantered to victory with Aitchinson the best of our bowlers and the result once again decided by a wide from Brown. It's already looking as if the Championship is our only hope of success unless the 50 over competition brings out the best in our players.
ReplyDeleteWe are a strike bowler and quality batsman short in this format. Time for Lloyd and Brown to have a rest. If fit, time for Reece to come in, give Wagstaff, Thompson and Dal a go, plus bring in Tickner. Grant from Telford
ReplyDeleteEverything about last night seemed off. No momentum, the team well under par and, unless my link was playing up, zero atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that the Sky money gods are deliberately and quietly taking a step back from pushing the competition this year too.
We've tried everything else, so could someone please change the music playlist? Even that's cast in the past.
Second in the CC though. That's a definite positive!
Enjoy your weekend folks. There's far more important things to concern ourselves with.
Andy
Blast! We have no vitality.
ReplyDeleteThe lights go out on our t20 hopes.
I don't like to be pessimistic, but like you, I'm resigned to another failure to qualify from the group. Just not consistent enough. There are flashes of brilliance, but all too brief to sustain a challenge.
ReplyDeleteWayne struggled yesterday, Samit struggles to play two games in 3 days, Donald struggles to go on when he gets in, Whiteley struggles to go on beyond a cameo, Lloyd struggles to miss fielders, Brown just struggles...We are the T20 'struggles XI'
Sanderson, 6-8. Now that wins you a game.
When does the championship resume..
The team just doesn’t look right and while Wayne Madsen has rallied the troops in the championship the same can't be said about the white ball skipper.
ReplyDeletePatel’s own game plan of just come out and try and hit everything over the fence seems to have spread across the whole team and is clearly not working. Then when it comes to bowling, so much of it is getting the right bowlers on at the right time and I don't think he's good at that.
As a player Samit still has plenty to offer in the right role but I feel making him captain has been a mistake.
So many good points made by previous correspondents. For a much-hyped local derby everything about last night seemed very flat, not least the crowd. However, it would be fair to say that events on the field weren’t giving us much to cheer about.
ReplyDeleteThe total we set them looked a good twenty runs short, but without Nye Donald’s innings they would have reached the target long before the power cut. It was disappointing that he got out straight after reaching his half century when we really needed him to hang around. The rest of the batters, even those who made decent contributions, seemed to struggle to find the boundary and it felt like there were a large number of singles.
I didn’t have particularly high hopes that the bowlers would be able to defend such a total and so it proved, despite the early wicket from Ben Aitchison who was the best bowler by far. Pat Brown again appeared to be going for pace over variations, which was a worry. Once the partnership between Jack Haynes and Lyndon James got going the writing was on the wall. When the floodlights went out I thought that would be it and the victory would be awarded to Nottinghamshire on DLS without needed to see any more but even the power cut lacked the staying power to prevent us from actively having to witness the defeat on the pitch.
It feels like we can either be good at four-day cricket or limited overs cricket, but not both at the moment and it’s hard to see things changing. The team could do with freshening up but with the same squad having been named four tomorrow’s game there seems little chance of that in the short-term. There was at least one step in the right direction with Brooke Guest back behind the stumps. But overall I am struggling to see where a win is coming from.