Nottinghamshire 171 for five (Hales 71*, Moores 32, Raine 2-15) beat Durham 168 for six (Robinson 50, Mullaney 3-28) by 5 wickets

The England opener was in dominant type for the Outlaws bouncing again from a duck towards the Lancashire Lightning in his final outing. Hales was aggressive firstly of his knock to place his crew forward of the speed earlier than taking part in the anchor position, permitting team-mates Tom Moores and Shaheen Afridi to blast Notts over the road with 4 balls to spare.

After shedding the toss, Durham's Graham Clark seemed to construct on his century of their opener match and located his vary within the third over, clattering Afridi for a six and boundary into the leg-side from successive deliveries earlier than simply lifting an off-drive over the pinnacle Matthew Carter at mid-off at hand the house aspect impetus.

Conor McKerr halted Clark's onslaught for 29 because the opener picked out Mullaney. But, Michael Jones stored Durham's robust begin alive after surviving an edge previous Tom Moores from his first ball. The Scotland worldwide scored 5 boundaries in a quick-fire 26 from 12 balls, however Mullaney produced a gem to bowl Jones after which prised out Alex Lees for 13.

Durham required a response to stem the tide. Turner and Robinson produced an important stand below stress value 57 for the fourth wicket. The two gamers complemented one another effectively with the guile of Robinson and the facility of Turner offering the inspiration of the Durham innings.

Turner tried to push the run charge on however offered Mullaney along with his third wicket when Hales took low catch at long-off. Robinson pressed on and continued to defy the Nottinghamshire assault, dispatching Afridi for 2 boundaries to file his second Blast fifty on the bounce following his career-best effort towards Yorkshire.

Afridi had his revenge to bowl Robinson earlier than he and McKerr bottled up the house aspect within the closing two overs, which price simply 9 runs, to limit Durham to a complete of 168 from their 20 overs.

Joe Clarke started the Outlaws' reply with a blistering begin, scoring three boundaries and a six. But, Liam Trevaskis displayed nice reactions to palm up a robust drive to take away the opener caught and bowled. Hales answered again for the guests, smashing 25 off one over from De Leede, together with two towering sixes into the leg-side.

Ben Raine and Nathan Sowter made inroads into the Nottinghamshire line-up, however Lyndon James supplied a helpful cameo to take the stress on Hales to maintain the guests forward of the required charge earlier than he fell for 20 to Turner.

Amid the autumn of wickets, Hales altered his method from aggressor to sport supervisor, reaching his half-century from 33 balls for the 72nd time in T20 cricket. His innings allowed Moores to search out his vary towards Trevaskis, smashing 16 off the 14th over to edge Notts nearer to their victory goal.

Moores grew to become Raine's second sufferer of the sport for 32, however there was to be no late drama as Afridi smashed two sixes off De Leede after which Trevaskis within the closing over to safe the win for the guests.