![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755959007_img-20250823-wa0011.jpg\"\/)
<\/p>\nPaul Franks says his Outlaws 50-over side are motivated to put on a performance for the Trent Bridge faithful in their final home game of the Metro Bank One Day Cup group stages.<\/p>\n
Notts entertain Surrey on Sunday 24 August (11am start), a matter of weeks before the sides do battle at the Kia Oval as the top two teams in Division One of the County Championship.<\/p>\n
A 15-strong squad has been named for the occasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever Surrey come to town it\u2019s always a big game of cricket, and we\u2019ve got another big game coming up against them in a few weeks\u2019 time as well,\u201d reflected the One Day Cup Head Coach after Friday\u2019s reverse to Gloucestershire<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll want to play well, of course. We\u2019ve got some thinking to do about the shape of our team, and we\u2019ll do that when the emotion has settled down a bit, and come back on Sunday and try and put on a really good performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s defeat to the group leaders followed back-to-back victories at Hampshire and Glamorgan \u2013 a sequence of results which sees the Outlaws still mathematically in with a chance of knockout stage qualification.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we were excellent in Wales, and very very good in Southampton at different times,\u201d said Franks.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately you\u2019ve got to try and be better for longer than the opposition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to be perfect over 100 overs, but if you can edge it in the crucial moments you give yourself the best chance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019ve managed to do in the games we\u2019ve won, but in the games we\u2019ve come near to winning \u2013 like the tie (against Worcestershire at the John Fretwell Centre) \u2013 we weren\u2019t quite good enough for long enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s something where, over the course of the day, we\u2019ve got to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n
This summer\u2019s 50-over campaign has allowed fresh faces such as Byron Hatton-Lowe and Joe Pocklington to take their first steps in first-team cricket, while Academy graduate Sammy King hit a brisk 21 against Gloucestershire in his seventh senior appearance for Notts.<\/p>\n
And Franks feels the opportunities afforded to the trio, and others in similar positions, will be beneficial in the long run.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis competition creates those opportunities, creates opportunities for us to give players different roles and responsibilities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou hope they\u2019re going to thrive off that and build their knowledge of the game, but you want to try and win along the way as well, so you\u2019re trying to marry a lot of things in at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Franks says his Outlaws 50-over side are motivated to put on a performance for the Trent Bridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[18304,1721,18306,15257,18308,101,18303,18305,56,54,55,18307],"class_list":{"0":"post-88589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-bridge","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-nottingham","11":"tag-nottinghamshire","12":"tag-outlaws","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-trent","15":"tag-trentbridge","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-west-bridgford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88589","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=88589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}