Just Cruisin'

The weathermen fooled me again. They were forecasting a rainy morning so I assumed there would be a delayed start and used that as an excuse for another hour in bed - which is why I ended up watching the start of the match on Ceefax. Charlie Shreck had Scotland in trouble straight away; although not as much trouble as the students of Durham University were in last week when he took 5-6. The Saltires didn't provide much more of a challenge than the students though: without Ryan Watson (84) and Aussie Ian Moran (45) it would have been a walkover.

Mind you, when Russell Warren got out, and I looked at the scoreboard and saw Notts (at 11-1 in the fifth over) were ten runs behind the Duckworth-Lewis target, I thought they were going to make heavy weather of it as per usual. So it was great to see the youngsters Will Smith and Samit Patel put on 185 to see Notts home with almost ten overs to spare.

Notts 196-1 (Will Smith 95no, Samit Patel 93no) beat Scotland 192 all out (Ryan Watson 84, Chris Cairns 4-30) by 9 wickets.