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Worcestershire CCC - 2018 Season
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T20 Blast, Northern Group

vs Derbyshire

New Road, Worcester


[Image: Worcester_Planes.jpg]


Worcs innings: The Pears won the toss and elected to bat on a cool, showery day in Worcester. Despite a decent start with plenty of boundaries, it soon became evident that the pitch was a tricky one to bat on, and when Wayne Parnell - freshly promoted to opener - top-edged one up in the air to be caught by Gary Wilson, it would doubtless have depressed all and sundry at New Road to have learned that his 12 was to be the second-highest tally on the Worcs scorecard. It was Joe Clarke we had to thank for dragging us up to a competitive score as wickets tumbled all around him, including a truly miserable middle-order collapse from 100-3 to 122-8. After a few disappointing outings of late for the young England hopeful, his 76 was the backbone of an innings that ended on the alarmingly lightweight score of 137-8.

Derby innings: In recent years, the frequent and justifiable criticism of Worcestershire as a white-ball team is that we simply rely too much on our batting. If your bowling attack leaks runs like a sieve then the pressure's always on your batsmen to score big, and you can never defend a low total. But - whisper it quietly - those days might just be over. There was some help from the pitch, which played just as awkwardly for the visitors as it did from the Pears, but from the moment Luke Wood pinned Ben Slater LBW off the third ball, the traffic was pretty one-way. By the end of the powerplay Derbyshire were just 23-3, and that became 28-4 the following over when George Rhodes took a bullet of a catch at backward point to claim the huge wicket of Wayne Madsen. To their credit, the visitors took it deep with a subsequent partnership of 53 between Godleman and Wilson, but leading wicket-taker Pat Brown added two more scalps to his tally at the death, beating the previous county best of 21 wickets in a T20 season by Saeed Ajmal, and handing Worcestershire what was, in the circumstances, a relatively comfortable 16-run victory.


Worcestershire WIN by sixteen runs



The Verdict: Back to the top of the table with three games to go, and it's now a mathematical certainty that Worcestershire will be playing a T20 quarter-final this month for the first time since 2015. Now it's simply a case of ensuring it's a home quarter-final, beginning with tomorrow night's match at Leicester.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley
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