Cricket
For any cricket fans out there, it looks like there was a corker of a day at Trent Bridge today:
Fourth day of Notts v Middlesex in the County Championship. In the first three days, Middlesex had made 505-9 declared on their first innings, Notts had replied with 392 all out. Middlesex had reached 220-5 by stumps yesterday. This morning, Middlesex lost wickets regularly, before declaring on 271-9, about 1 1/2 hours before lunch - leaving Notts needing 385 to win. Not since 1926 have a team achieved a score that high in the final innings of a match to win at Trent Bridge, but guess what...
- After ten overs of the reply, Notts were on 65-1
- At lunch, they'd reached 108-0 off eighteen overs
- A couple of wickets fell in the afternoon, but by tea, they were up to 234-2, with 151 needed to win, but with only 37 overs left to get them...
- which of course they duly did - 387-4 off 74.4 overs :Hales 94 from 142 balls, Jacques 76 from 79, Lumb 68 from 82, Taylor 56* from 94, Wessels 74* from 48 balls, only Samit "the most frustrating batsman in history" Patel failing with his 5...
- And to top it all, Wessels hit a six off Eoin Morgan to win the match and put Notts top of the table...
Now that is what you call a comeback, and that, England, is how you bat in your second innings!
Only one match, and probably no more than a Wisden footnote in cricketing history, but that's what I call a game (and also proof positive of the value of Twitter to the working cricket fan).