Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nLeicestershire reached their second One-Day Cup final in four years, overcoming Notts Outlaws by 23 runs in their semi-final at Grace Road.<\/p>\n
Hamza Shaikh set the 2023 competition winners on their way to the decider against Middlesex, scoring a match-defining 104 off 109 balls as the Foxes set a challenging 303-7 to chase.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old, who joined Leicestershire from Warwickshire just a month ago, combined with Nick Kelly (53) for a 117-run fourth-wicket partnership to give Notts plenty to do.<\/p>\n
Shaikh eventually fell to Liam Patterson-White, while Dillon Pennington went on to claim 3-65 for the Outlaws.<\/p>\n
Notts, aiming to reach their first home final since the List A decider was moved to Trent Bridge from Lord’s in 2021, started well with openers Ben Martindale and Freddie McCann putting on 63 in 11 overs.<\/p>\n
But, with his first delivery, England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed trapped Martindale leg before for 43.<\/p>\n
The Outlaws’ chase slowed after that, and while the 69-run partnership between McCann and captain Haseeb Hameed helped to steady the visitors, a mix-up cost the opener his wicket on 63 as he was run out.<\/p>\n
When 19-year-old Alex Green, who would finish with 4-40, dismissed the ever-dangerous Kyle Verreynne (43) and Farhan Ahmed in the space of four balls in the 48th over, Leicestershire’s victory was all but assured.<\/p>\n
The Foxes’ showdown with Middlesex will be the sixth One-Day Cup final to be played at Trent Bridge since English cricket’s only remaining List A competition left Lord’s in 2019.<\/p>\n
The first planned Nottingham final in 2020 was wiped out by the Covid pandemic, but there have been five since, all won by counties some would consider unfashionable: Glamorgan (twice), Kent, Leicestershire and Worcestershire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One-Day Cup, men’s semi-final, Uptonsteel Grace Road Leicestershire 303-7 (50 overs): Shaikh 104, Kelly 53; Pennington 3-65 Nott…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}