Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Trent Bridge (day three)
Nottinghamshire 377 & 104: Clarke 37; Lumsden 5-36
Hampshire 304: Lehmann 133* & 61-6: Mayes 21*; Stone 3-15, Pennington 3-18
Hampshire (4 pts) want 117 extra runs to beat Notts (6 pts)
Title-chasing Nottinghamshire are closing in on a unprecedented victory towards Hampshire on a day wherein 19 wickets fell at Trent Bridge.
After the guests have been bowled out for 304 of their first innings earlier than lunch, Hampshire, mired on the foot of the County Championship desk and 73 behind on first innings, reworked the house facet’s 13 with out loss to 47-6.
Eddie Jack, who turned 21 on Wednesday, swept apart the highest three in 17 balls and 17-year-old Manny Lumsden, on debut, had two in his first seven.
After Scott Currie joined the wicket-taking, Lumsden, with tempo and carry, then swept away three extra in 13 balls to return 5-36 in 104 all out, leaving Hampshire to achieve 178 for a 3rd win of the summer time.
Roused, Notts diminished them to 11-4 when Jake Lehmann went for 2 after his unbeaten 133 earlier. It turned 27-6 when two fell on the identical rating. By the point dangerous mild halted frantic proceedings at 17:00 BST, the unbroken seventh-wicket had lowered the goal to 117 extra runs required with 4 wickets in hand.
There was extra life than on Wednesday in a pitch that had maybe began to crack and each Olly Stone and Dillon Pennington claimed three wickets in seven-over new-ball spells.
Felix Organ top-edged a swipe to be held at a tantalising second try at mid-on by Pennington who then had Nick Gubbins and Toby Albert in three overs.
Albert, driving, was outstandingly taken low down at backward level by Sam Seecharan, a substitute fielder, on a day when no possibilities escaped amid the excessive rigidity. Lehmann, slicing and top-edging, adopted as Stone reprised the bowling that introduced him 10-94 in Nottinghamshire’s final win, towards Surrey three matches in the past.
When Nottinghamshire had batted once more 35 minutes from lunch they could have turned ideas to when their declaration may comply with and the way beneficiant a goal they might danger.
Haseeb Hameed had in reality quickly gloved the muscular Jack behind for 5 and Freddie McCann miscued him to 3rd man for 4 because the carnage commenced.
Six balls after the interval, Jack hit the highest of Ben Slater’s off stump and after 22 runs had doubled the rating, Lumsden produced the very good balls of pace and sharp bounce that did for Jack Haynes and Mitchell Hay, as captain Ben Brown moved additional in direction of 10 catches within the match.
Currie eliminated Liam Patterson-White from a top-edged pull and, after 28 had are available in a counter-attacking six overs, he starightened one to bowl Fraser Sheat for 16. Lumsden eliminated Olly Stone to make it 88-8.
Not so for Nottinghamshire. 4 overs later, after Joe Clarke, for 37, and Pennington had each gone to nice operating catches making an attempt to tackle Lumsden, they have been all out at an early tea.
Notts had earlier grasped their third and ultimate bowling level with 16 balls to spare after Hampshire resumed their first innings on 267-7 with 10 bonus-point overs remaining. Hampshire, their final pair collectively, have been 9 runs in need of a second batting level on the cut-off level earlier than ending on 304.
Ought to they win, the bonus-point aspect might but be important for Notts, 4 behind leaders Somerset, however would look educational for Hampshire in the event that they lose. They would want to shut a 32-point hole to keep away from relegation.
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