Notts storm to victory as Paterson, Hutton blow Essex away for 69
Nottinghamshire 237 (Slater 79, Martindale 55, Beard 4-32) beat Essex 69 (Paterson 4-30, Hutton 3-17) by 168 runs
Dane Paterson blasted by means of the Essex batting with 4 wickets to arrange a crushing 168-run victory in Notts Outlaws’ opening Metro Bank One-Day Cup match of the season.
The South African completed with figures of 4 for 30 as Essex have been dismissed for simply 69 in 25.1 overs at Chelmsford. It narrowly beat Essex’s lowest List A complete of 57 which they managed within the NatWest Cup closing at Lord’s in 1996 in opposition to Lancashire.
Set 238 to win, Essex have been 5 down inside a dozen overs with solely 31 on the board and the wickets continued to fall with nice regularity. It had been the identical earlier on a benign wicket with Aaron Beard tearing a gap in Notts batting line-up with career-best List A figures of 4 for 32 because the Outlaws, put in, misplaced their final 9 wickets for 66 runs.
The Outlaws’ rollercoaster innings was indebted to a century first-wicket partnership that was solely ended when 20-year-old rookie Ben Martindale – making solely his second first-team look – tried 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 few potential run-out mix-ups, in addition to being becalmed when Jamie Porter and Beard bowled back-to-back maiden overs. But each reduce unfastened from the early shackles, discovering gaps and buying and selling boundaries, with Martindale hitting Porter for 3 of his eight in a single over.
Ben Slater was barely extra circumspect requiring 15 extra balls in reaching his fifty, although he did pull Aron Nijjar for six in addition to including seven fours in a 101-ball 79.
The second wicket between Slater and Lyndon James added 64 runs, however a three-wicket burst in 9 balls by Beard marked the beginning of a plethora of wickets as Notts collapsed in simply 14 overs from a promising 171 for 1 to 237 all out with 25 balls unused.
Slater perished when he miscued and chipped to mid-on. Haseeb Hameed lasted simply seven balls earlier than he dragged on and James took a wild swing to finish a 40-ball 32 which unusually didn’t embrace a boundary. When Ben Allison took over from Beard on the River End, he had Matthew Montgomery caught from his second ball to a working catch by Westley at mid-on.
Essex’s Tasmanian allrounder Beau Webster bowled his first two overs as a seamer, however then modified to offspin and had Liam Patterson-White slicing to brief third man. Dane Schadendorf and Calvin Harrison exited in fast succession, each taking part in down the mistaken line to deliveries from Nijjar and Westley respectively. Tom Loten patted a full-toss again to Webster and Beard wrapped issues up along with his fourth wicket by bowling Brett Hutton.
However, the clatter of wickets was not interrupted by the change of innings. Essex misplaced Josh Rymell lbw to the ninth ball of their reply when he tried to flick Paterson off his legs. Eight balls later Robin Das adopted, taking part in throughout one from Hutton to be bowled. It was 11 for 3 within the sixth over when Paterson discovered some late motion to take the sting of Westley’s bat, and 16 for 4 two overs later when Noah Thain took a swipe exterior off stump and was snatched above his head at second slip.
Calvin Harrison was the lone slip 4 overs later when he dived to his left to say Webster to a different exterior edge and supply Paterson with a fourth wicket
Charlie Allison dragged Loten by means of midwicket for under the third boundary of the Essex innings however performed on subsequent ball for 13. The elder Allison, Ben, stayed for simply 4 balls earlier than hooking Hutton to deep effective leg and the next ball Beard was leg earlier than to at least one that stopped.
Nijjar took Essex previous 50 with a pulled 4 that earnt ironic cheers from a sizeable Chelmsford crowd. But as soon as Essex had handed their lowest complete within the competitors, he was run out on the non-striker’s finish by a direct throw from Hameed. Harrison took the final wicket along with his solely ball within the recreation when had Porter caught at mid-on.