Wayward Notts made to suffer by Collingwood
FORMER England one-day captain Paul Collingwood showed there’s life in the old dog yet as Durham won a second successive T20 Blast tie with a 66-run defeat of Nottinghamshire on Wednesday.
The 40-year-old was named man of the match after his unbeaten knock of 44 off half as many deliveries got Durham to 178-7.
And Collingwood claimed bowling figures of 1-22 off four overs, taking the scalp of Sam Wood (17) as Notts were dismissed for 112 with four balls to spare.
Visiting coach Mick Newell was frustrated with his attack’s failure to dismiss Collingwood.
“We need to execute our skills better with the ball,” he said.
“So to that end we’ll look at the possibility of some match practice in the next few days rather than just nets.
“If you can deliver it in nets that’s okay, but at the moment we’re not delivering in the middle.”
Phil Mustard had been the Durham hero on Friday in their comfortable six-wicket win over Lancashire.
Despite New Zealand star Martin Guptill’s excellent 72 at the top of the order on debut, he had little support as Lancashire posted 149-8.
And Durham, led by opener Mustard (46), wasted little time in reply, putting on 43 runs off the first two overs, before eventually chasing down their target with five overs to spare.
The result of the week though, was achieved by Northamptonshire who successfully completed their highest-ever T20 run chase to defeat Derbyshire by three wickets.
Captain Wes Durston (47) led the assault as the visitors to the County Ground made 195-7. Despite requiring almost ten runs an over, Northants reached their target with seven wickets down and two balls to spare, opener Richard Levi (58) making a 28-ball half century.
Skipper Ian Bell hit 66 in Birmingham’s 155-7 innings, but was upstaged by Brett D’Oliveira who hit an unbeaten 62 off 38 balls to get Worcestershire over the line with five deliveries to spare.
Bell said:“We want to play with no fear and we probably didn’t get that right.We didn’t cash in during the middle period.We were 20 runs short.”
Leicestershire also blitzed Yorkshire by 54 runs, Ben Raine taking 3-7 after earlier top-scoring with 48 runs.