Worcestershire 226 for five (Bracewell 55, Hose 51*) beat Nottinghamshire 170 (Hales 71, D'Oliveira 4-11 Brown 4-25) by 56 runs

Worcestershire Rapids made it 4 wins from 4 matches within the Vitality Blast after their 226 for 5 - the second highest whole of their historical past within the T20 format - proved method too many for North Group rivals Notts Outlaws at Trent Bridge, who misplaced by 56 runs.

Nott coach Peter Moores admitted: "We are struggling without three frontline bowlers and that hurt us tonight. Having said that we didn't play well, which is frustrating because we lost control of the game right from the start. Steven Mullaney and Matt Carter bowled well on a really good pitch but the other lads didn't quite get it right."

Rapids piled up an enormous 87 with out loss within the six powerplay overs, D'Oliveira setting the tempo with 44 from 20 balls, Bracewell not far behind with 38 from 17. Both cleared the ropes twice.

The pair placed on 98 in 41 balls for the primary wicket, though Bracewell had a let-off on six when chipping Afridi to quick midwicket, the place Colin Munro stretched an arm above his head however might solely push the ball behind him. That got here throughout an eventful over that noticed the Pakistan star visibly aggrieved over a no-ball name for having too many fielders outdoors the ring, his temper not helped when the additional ball flew off the sting of Bracewell's bat for 4.

A breakthrough for the Outlaws arrived when D'Oliveira holed out to deep sq. leg off Samit Patel within the seventh over, after which two wickets in consecutive overs hinted at a fightback as Bracewell was bowled making room to chop and Mitchell Santner, again from the IPL to start out a 3rd stint with the Rapids, gave Mullaney a straightforward caught-and-bowled.

But at 125 for 3 within the eleventh, Jack Haynes was joined by Adam Hose so as to add one other 53 from 22 balls, the previous cracking a few slog-swept maximums earlier than Matt Montgomery accomplished a tremendous catch on the run at deep further cowl to finish his progress on 42 from 25 balls.

Mullaney, simply the decide of the Outlaws bowlers, conceded solely two from the seventeenth however the final three overs noticed Afridi and Conor McKerr give up one other 41 for the solitary wicket of Kashif Ali as Hose completed 51 not out from 27 balls with three fours and 4 sixes, two off McKerr within the penultimate over and an audacious scoop for one more off Afridi within the final.

Needing greater than 11 runs per over to go near the Rapids' whole, the Outlaws had been comfortably forward of that with 76 on the board from the powerplay, though they misplaced one in all their key weapons when Joe Clarke, after an escape on 17, was caught at quick tremendous leg for 25 off 16 balls.

Hales was discovering the gaps within the discipline with ominous regularity, reaching his third fifty of this season's Blast in 21 balls with two sixes, carved over further cowl off Adam Finch and off-spinner Bracewell, in addition to seven fours, however a few tight overs from Bracewell and Santner's left-arm spin introduced the primary component of scoreboard stress and yielded a dividend for the Rapids when their former team-mate Colin Munro, one other who may need finished some severe injury, skied one off Brown to be caught at lengthy on.

Two extra wickets misplaced within the subsequent over, as new Montgomery and Tom Moores each discovered fielders of their efforts to place the stress again on the visiting aspect in opposition to D'Oliveira's leg spin, left the Outlaws 99 for 4 after 10 overs with Hales seemingly now their solely hope of creating a recreation of it.

But he misplaced extra companions when Bracewell bowled Lyndon James and Mullaney was caught on the additional cowl boundary by a diving Hose off D'Oliveira, Hales departing in the identical over, throwing every thing into an identical shot however falling to an excellent catch, once more by Hose, who parried the ball above the rope and caught it because it dropped.

Afridi's 4 sixes off one Bracewell over supplied a flurry of late leisure however he, Samit Patel and Matt Carter predictably perished of their determined pursuit of runs because the Outlaws had been bowled out for 170 within the nineteenth over.