T20 Blast: Nottinghamshire beat Northamptonshire in rain-affected game

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Richard Levi
Richard Levi's 15 boundaries still left Northants short of a match-winning total
NatWest T20 Blast, Trent Bridge, Nottingham:
Northamptonshire 195-8 (20 overs): Levi 88; Sodhi 3-39, Gurney 3-46
Nottinghamshire 52-0 (5.1 overs): Hales 30*, Wessels 14*
Nottinghamshire (2 pts) beat Northamptonshire by 12 runs (D/L method)
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Ish Sodhi and Harry Gurney took three wickets apiece as Nottinghamshire beat Northamptonshire in a rain-affected T20 Blast match at Trent Bridge.

Northants opener Richard Levi smashed eight sixes as he made 88 from just 43 balls, but he had little support.

Northants were 107-1 at the midway point, but Sodhi (3-39) and Gurney (3-46) shone to restrict them to 195-8.

Play stopped with Notts on 52-0 from 5.1 overs, giving them a 12-run win on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern system.

Alex Hales finished unbeaten on 30 from 16 balls, ably assisted by fellow opener Riki Wessels (14 not out) until the weather brought a premature end to proceedings.

It is a second win in two days for Notts, who scored their highest ever T20 total in amassing 227-3 against Derbyshire on Friday.

Northants remain second in the North Group but missed the chance to move top, as only England international Ben Duckett (28) really came close to backing up Levi with the bat.

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  • Comment posted by Horseradish Soup, at 11:31 23 Jul 2017

    Both sides know the rules, so the outcome is what it is.

    In cricket normally you accelerate in the second half of an innings, so on judgement I would say it was a fair result.

    Nothants lost to many wickets in the second half.

  • Comment posted by gs1647, at 19:54 22 Jul 2017

    Notts were better placed to win so DLS correctly gave them the win. It does throw into question the wisdom of using DLS after so few overs because so much can happen. Does DLS take powerplays into account? It should because Notts benefited from fielding restrictions for the whole of their innings and scoring was easier.

  • Comment posted by Guzziguy, at 22:02 22 Jul 2017

    The key is the number of wickets the Steelbacks lost. I was at the game and could not understand why ,as the clouds rolled in, Northamptonshire threw wickets away at the end. Cricket is a game for thinkers......

  • Comment posted by therabbit, at 19:56 22 Jul 2017

    Both teams go into the game knowing the rules on rain delays, I would have though Notts would have knocked the runs of easily due to their current form.

  • Comment posted by nivek2105, at 10:33 23 Jul 2017

    It doesn't matter if 40 was a fair 'par' because Notts scored 52, reaching it with plenty to spare whatever method you use. I tried putting the figures into online D/L method calculators and they came up with 30, not 40 as par. The new D/L/Stern formula, which has not been made public, takes the need to score quickly from the start when chasing a big total into account, hence the higher par.

  • Comment posted by rpb, at 20:50 22 Jul 2017

    As a neutral it seems fair to me. Notts were scoring at 10 and over and needed to score less than 10 an over with all their wickets in hand to win. Under the old system they were ahead of the required run rate and so would also have won. Perhaps people can say how this match result should be judged.

  • Comment posted by Man in a suitcase, at 14:12 23 Jul 2017

    @10.

    Your analogy about acceleration in the second half of innings would be correct back in the 70's 80's and 90's which is the principle that the DLS method applies to.

    When power plays were introduced at the turn of the century the emphasis was to go hard at the start of the innings which a lot of teams applied meaning that the real acceleration is during the power plays.

  • Comment posted by Nick, at 20:46 22 Jul 2017

    How can 40 off 5 be par chasing 195. What did Northants get in the first 5 overs? DLS isn't fit for purpose in t20!

  • Comment posted by lamthe, at 19:39 22 Jul 2017

    As a Notts fan this does look a little fortunate and the target nonsensical, although maybe wickets, power plays etc played a role in the consideration.

  • Comment posted by greenlegend, at 19:27 22 Jul 2017

    The DLS (now the "DLSS") has always thrown up anomalies but this is the most extreme. Northants gets nothing for entertaining the crowd? It doesn't seem right.

  • Comment posted by Peter Lanky, at 11:37 23 Jul 2017

    I neither watched nor followed the game, but reading the comments here, it seems that using a calculator to decide the outcome of a game of cricket is just as bizarre today as it has always been. Cricket has too many variables to play the game on a computer, and either they call it a draw or else allow sufficient time to complete the game later even if it means on another day with no spectators.

  • Comment posted by Nibbo92, at 18:57 22 Jul 2017

    They only needed to get 40 from 5 overs after Northants got 195?? This is a joke, Nottinghamshire have burgled one here.

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