Nottinghamshire kept their County Championship title challenge on track as they bowled out Worcestershire for 182 on day one of their Division One clash.<\/p>\n
Former Pears seamers Dillon Pennington (4-50) and Josh Tongue (3-59) reduced their old team-mates to 53-6 before Gareth Roderick (61) and Tom Taylor (40) offered some resistance.<\/p>\n
Notts closed day one on 46-1 to lay a strong platform for a victory which would keep their surprise title-bid right on track \u2013 and all but relegate the hosts to Division Two.<\/p>\n
The visitors won the toss and chose to bowl in anticipation of early life in the pitch and found plenty to reduce the home side to 37-5 in the 15th over. <\/p>\n
Pennington struck the first two blows, unfurling a lifter to take Rehaan Edavalath’s edge through to wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne and then jagging one back in to trap Kashif Ali lbw.<\/p>\n
Three wickets then fell on 37 as Tongue removed Jake Libby, caught behind, and then flattened Brett D’Oliviera’s off-stump with the last two balls of his over. <\/p>\n
When Pennington pinned debutant Daniel Lategan in front, three wickets had fallen in five balls.<\/p>\n
Tongue was mightily close to a hat-trick at the start of the next over when Roderick survived a huge lbw shout, but the next wicket wasn’t long in coming as the Pears stirred some self-destruction into their difficult morning. <\/p>\n
Ethan Brookes played Pennington to mid-off, saw a single that wasn’t there and was well-beaten by Haseeb Hameed’s direct hit.<\/p>\n
When Matthew Waite clipped Lyndon James to mid-wicket just after lunch, it was 86-7, but Roderick and Taylor rebuilt sensibly against strangely defensive fields. <\/p>\n
They added 71 in 17 overs and Taylor was deeply frustrated to sky a pull at Tongue and perish minutes before rain arrived to trigger an early tea.<\/p>\n
After forked lightning amid dark grey skies, Nottinghamshire then polished off the innings upon resumption. <\/p>\n
Pennington pinned Ben Allison lbw and then Roderick, having dug out a fighting 102-ball half-century, was lbw, sweeping to Liam Patterson-White.<\/p>\n
Nottinghamshire lost skipper Hameed, bowled by Taylor, to the second ball of their innings as the pitch continued to offer some movement and good carry. <\/p>\n
But Ben Slater and Freddie McCann added an unbroken 46 in 16 overs to the close, not without some playing and missing, to leave the East Midlands side scenting a big first innings lead as they hunt a seventh County Championship title.<\/p>\n
Report supplied by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottinghamshire kept their County Championship title challenge on track as they bowled out Worcestershire for 182 on day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-128812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}