One-Day Cup, males’s semi-final, Uptonsteel Grace Highway
Leicestershire 303-7 (50 overs): Shaikh 104, Kelly 53; Pennington 3-65
Nott Outlaws 280 all out (49 overs): McCann 64, Hameed 54; A Inexperienced 4-40
Leicestershire beat Notts Outlaws by 23 runs
Leicestershire reached their second One-Day Cup closing in 4 years, overcoming Notts Outlaws by 23 runs of their semi-final at Grace Highway.
Hamza Shaikh set the 2023 competitors winners on their solution to the decider in opposition to Middlesex, scoring a match-defining 104 off 109 balls because the Foxes set a difficult 303-7 to chase.
The 20-year-old, who joined Leicestershire from Warwickshire only a month in the past, mixed with Nick Kelly (53) for a 117-run fourth-wicket partnership to offer Notts loads to do.
Shaikh ultimately fell to Liam Patterson-White, whereas Dillon Pennington went on to say 3-65 for the Outlaws.
Notts, aiming to achieve their first residence closing because the Checklist A decider was moved to Trent Bridge from Lord’s in 2021, began effectively with openers Ben Martindale and Freddie McCann placing on 63 in 11 overs.
However, together with his first supply, England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed trapped Martindale leg earlier than for 43.
The Outlaws’ chase slowed after that, and whereas the 69-run partnership between McCann and captain Haseeb Hameed helped to regular the guests, a mix-up price the opener his wicket on 63 as he was run out.
When 19-year-old Alex Inexperienced, who would end with 4-40, dismissed the ever-dangerous Kyle Verreynne (43) and Farhan Ahmed within the area of 4 balls within the forty eighth over, Leicestershire’s victory was all however assured.
The Foxes’ showdown with Middlesex would be the sixth One-Day Cup closing to be performed at Trent Bridge since English cricket’s solely remaining Checklist A contest left Lord’s in 2019.
The primary deliberate Nottingham closing in 2020 was worn out by the Covid pandemic, however there have been 5 since, all received by counties some would think about retro: Glamorgan (twice), Kent, Leicestershire and Worcestershire.
