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An eye on the opposition
fixture that, in 2015, attracted a Notts
Outlaws NatWest T20 Blast record
crowd of 13,582.
Hamish Rutherford, who scored 62
off 47 balls that night and could be
one of three Kiwis in the visitors’
starting line-up alongside James
Neesham & Neil Broom, ranks Trent
Bridge among his favourite venues.
“I played there a few years ago with
Essex in the quarter-final, there was a
great crowd and it’s a lovely place to
play cricket,” he says.
“The game last year was a close one
and it was a packed house with a very
good atmosphere then as well.
“I don’t think many of the Derbyshire
players had played in-front of a crowd
like that.
“On a lovely night, there are not many
places better.”
With local derby bragging rights
hopefully in the bag, the Outlaws’
next home assignment will be the visit
of the Durham Jets on the first day of
July, with Notts aiming for a repeat
over Paul Collingwood & co having
completed the double over the men
from the north-east in 2015.
Eight days later, the aim will be to
make it payback day asWorcestershire
Rapids return to the scene of their 20-
run triumph last season.
That night Notts experienced first
hand the precocious talent of Tom
Kohler-Cadmore, who scored 75 off
39 balls including five sixes, while
former Derbyshire left-hander Ross
Whiteley is always a dangerous
presence in the middle order.
TheYorkshire Vikings know about
Sheffield bornWhiteley’s presence
better than anyone.
They watched him plunder 11 sixes in
a belligerent cameo of 91 not out off
35 balls at Headingley last year.
But Andrew Gale’s men fared
somewhat better against the Outlaws
in 2015, recording a double over
Mick Newell’s men, but that couldn’t
prevent theWhite Rose from crashing
out, alongside Notts, at the group
stages.
“There was
a great
crowd &
it’s a lovely
place to
play cricket.”
Rutherford onTrent Bridge
Charlie Shreck spent ten
years with Nottinghamshire