Roasted Phoenix

Nice day for it...

Despite there being a big crowd at Trent Bridge this afternoon - about 8,000 - the top deck of the Radcliffe Road Stand was, as always, kept locked. Very annoying.

Notts won the toss and chose to bat first, but the tactic of using Graeme Swan as a 'pinch-hitter' failed again when he holed out second ball - just as he had the day before yesterday.

Happily, the rest of Notts' top order all did well: Fleming and Singh both got thirty-odd, before Hussey and Read roasted the Phoenix bowlers, adding 95 in less than ten overs. It might not have been quite such a good score had Matthew Wood not fallen over the boundary rope while taking a catch though...

Just to add injury to insult, he twisted an ankle as he fell

A stretcher was brought out for him...

- but he managed to limp off without it.
The stretcher made another appearance later on...

...when Anurag Singh dislocated his shoulder fielding on the boundary.

An inevitable consequence perhaps of the ultra-short crash-bang-wallop nature of Twenty20 cricket

where bat, ball and fielders are flying all over the place, especially when Aussie Darren Lehmann got going...

For a while it looked like Notts' impressive total of 195 from their twenty overs might not be enough, as Lehmann and Craig White racked up the runs - taking Yorkshire to three figures several overs faster than Notts. But Lehmann was trapped lbw by a slower ball from Gareth Clough, and soon after Craig White swept a delivery from Graeme Swann straight to Notts substitute Josh Mierkalns...

So, Notts win another Twenty20 match. Maybe they are getting the hang of it.

There was no sign of that tortoise today though...

Notts 195-4 (20 overs: Fleming 35, Singh 35, Hussey 58, Read 48no) beat Yorkshire 174-6 (20 overs: White 41, Lehmann 48) by 21 runs.