T20 Blast: Nottinghamshire beat Northamptonshire in rain-affected game
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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.
Which teams are you expecting to qualify from the T20 Blast northern group and why?
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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.
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.