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Mark Stoneman, who failed twice at Lord’s and hasn’t passed 60 in 11 Test matches, has been left out

Andrew McGlashan28-May-2018England have responded to their thumping nine-wicket defeat at Lord’s by recalling Keaton Jennings for the second Test against Pakistan at Headingley with Mark Stoneman dropped following a continuation of his poor form in the heavy loss.Jennings, 25, scored a century on his Test debut against India in Mumbai but lost his place midway through last season after struggling to build on that early milestone.However, following a move from Durham to Lancashire, he has been one of the few in-form batsmen on the domestic circuit this season. He has scored two centuries in the County Championship, including one against a strong Nottinghamshire attack, and has carried that form into the Royal London Cup.

Someone in form: Jennings’ season

County Championship 314 runs @ 44.85; two hundred
Royal London Cup 306 runs @ 76.50; one hundred, two fifties

Stoneman failed twice at Lord’s – bowled by Mohammad Abbas in the first innings and defeated by a one that kept low from Shadab Khan in the second – in a display bereft of confidence.He had been somewhat fortunate to retain his place in the first place following a lean start to the season for Surrey. In his 11 Tests he has made five half-centuries but not gone beyond 60, with a distinct slump in his performances after getting hit on the helmet at the WACA.”Keaton Jennings showed a strong temperament in scoring a hundred on his Test match debut against India in December 2016,” national selector Ed Smith said. “Keaton has found good form in county cricket this season, including three centuries in his last seven innings.”Mark Stoneman misses out at Headingley. Mark has experienced a disappointing start to the 2018 season and had a difficult Test match at Lord’s.”With the swap of Jennings for Stoneman confirmed, the one decision to be made on the final XI is whether there is a return for Chris Woakes, who was the man to miss out from the 12 at Lord’s. Mark Wood was preferred in the hope that he could provide a different element to the pace attack but his first-innings return of 2 for 74 was underwhelming.England squad: Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root (capt), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Dom Bess, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad, James Anderson, Chris Woakes

Sri Lanka fought desperately despite a spectacular collapse lit up by a Faheem Ashraf hat-trick, and held the ascendancy right until Shadab Khan smashed a six with Pakistan needing eight from three balls

The Report by Danyal Rasool27-Oct-2017AFP

There was a hat-trick from Faheem Ashraf, and a Sri Lankan collapse that saw them lose eight wickets for 14 runs. That might suggest another rout of the hapless visitors, but nothing could be further from reality. In the game of the entire tour, Pakistan edged home with one ball to spare, with only two wickets in hand when the winning runs were struck. They were struck by none other than golden boy Shadab Khan, who smashed a six off the game’s penultimate ball to wrench victory from Sri Lanka’s desperate, clawing hands.This was a complete T20 game, beginning with intelligent batting by Sri Lanka, put in after Pakistan won the toss. That was followed by a remarkable collapse from 106 for 1 to 120 for 9. Pakistan looked like they were cruising early on, before an excellent spell by captain Thisara Perera dragged Sri Lanka back. From there, they held the ascendancy right until the last three balls. Pakistan needed eight off them. Shadab hit a straight six and a couple off the next delivery denied Sri Lanka’s valiant young side victory in an astonishing contest.It was Sri Lanka’s best game of the limited-overs tour. The batsmen early on deprived Pakistan of wickets while keeping the score ticking. A 63-run second-wicket partnership between Gunathilaka and Sadeera Samarawickrama set Thisara’s men up for a score above par, with fast bowlers Hasan Ali and Usman Khan expensive in the early overs.Shadab was the only bowler in the middle overs able to rein in Sri Lanka. At one point, they might have been eyeing 150, but a superb spell from the teenager prevented them from cutting loose. He has added another variation, a quicker one that can reach 120kph, and it removed Sri Lanka’s top scorer Gunathilaka amidst their late collapse. Shadab might not have taken heaps of wickets, but his figures of 4-0-14-1 were to prove crucial.In the madness of Sri Lanka’s final overs, Faheem Ashraf emerged as the hero with a sensational hat-trick, removing Dasun Shanaka, Isuru Udana and Mahela Udawatte off the last three balls of the 19th over. It was Pakistan’s first T20I hat-trick and, in truth, couldn’t have come from an unlikelier source.Poor running and brilliant fielding hurt Sri Lanka’s innings: there were three run outs, The wickets that crumpled in a heap towards the end crushed their hopes of a late charge, and while it was still an improvement on yesterday, they still finished with a below-par 124.Pakistan were tentative in their approach to the chase, almost as if they had forgotten what to do when a match become mildly competitive. Fakhar Zaman was run out after miscommunication with Ahmed Shehzad, before Babar Azam fell victim to an incorrect lbw decision. But skipper Perera rose to the occasion, giving his side a real chance of victory, accounting for both Shehzad and Shoaib Malik in his first two overs.For a while, Mohammad Hafeez and Sarfraz Ahmed looked in control, never letting the asking rate get out of sight. But once Hafeez holed out to long on with Pakistan still requiring 31, panic set in. Perera returned for his final over and got rid of Imad Wasim, and terrific fielding in the deep saw Pakistan’s captain run out three balls later. Twenty-one were still required off 14, and with three wickets remaining, Sri Lanka were firm favourites.Udana conceded only four in a brilliant penultimate over, but the drama all lay in the last over. Faheem was caught at long-on off the first ball of Vikum Sanjaya’s over, and with 11 needed off four, Pakistan were up against it. It looked even graver for them when Hasan sliced one straight to long-off, but was reprieved by a crucial dropped catch, allowing Pakistan to scramble three. That brought on strike Shadab, a young man whose honeymoon with cricket simply refuses to end. Two balls and eight runs later, the contest was suddenly over, and Shadab’s joy, as well as Abu Dhabi’s, was unconfined.

Prithvi Shaw became the first Mumbai batsman to score a hundred on Ranji Trophy debut in more than two decades, after Amol Muzumdar last achieved the feat in 1993-94, to highlight Mumbai’s semi-final win against Tamil Nadu

The Report by Arun Venugopal in Rajkot05-Jan-2017
ScorecardFile photo – Suryakumar Yadav’s 73 in the first innings had helped Mumbai get a 106-run first innings lead•PTI

That Mumbai did not so much storm as saunter into their second successive Ranji Trophy final and their 46th in all – a six-wicket win over Tamil Nadu in two sessions will qualify as nothing less – will gladden them for more than one reason. Firstly, it was a strong opening partnership, an elusive ingredient all season, that set up the chase of 251 on the final day.Secondly, and more importantly, it was Prithvi Shaw, a 17-year-old debutant, who was in the vanguard with a fearless hundred. During the course of his 175-ball 120, Shaw also became the first Mumbai batsman to score a hundred on Ranji Trophy debut in more than two decades, after Amol Muzumdar last achieved the feat in 1993-94.If one delivery were to sum up the contrasting fortunes of Shaw and Tamil Nadu, it was the second ball of the 51st over. Shaw, on 99, steered Vijay Shankar to gully, and as B Indrajith completed the catch, he was shattered. Even as Shaw tried to drag himself off the field, the umpires asked him to wait to check for the no ball.As it turned out, Shankar had overstepped; Suryakumar Yadav instantly went up to Shaw and patted his shoulder. Four balls later, Shaw steered Shankar to gully again. But, this time the ball went along the ground and Suryakumar dashed to the danger end. As Shaw’s helmet came off to reveal his pubescent face, the magnitude of his achievement on the big stage hit home.This wasn’t the first instance, though, of Shaw seeing off a nerve-wracking period; he and his partner Praful Waghela were put under considerable pressure by Tamil Nadu’s bowlers and close-in fielders yesterday – it showed in the nervy running between the wickets – and there was no respite in the morning session either, when play began after a 35-minute delay owing to poor visibility caused by dense fog.This time, however, Shaw wasn’t looking to play for stumps, and found his bearings with a crunchy backfoot punch through covers off Aswin Crist in the second over of the day. Despite two gullies and a short point breathing down on him, Shaw continued to middle the ball confidently. He was similarly unruffled by Dinesh Karthik’s chirp about the impending bouncers from behind the stumps, and was comfortably ducking them.When he leant forward to Crist and produced two punchy cover drives off successive deliveries, it became further evident that neither Crist nor Vignesh posed a threat to him. Also, with little swing on offer, captain Abhinav Mukund turned to Aushik Srinivas, his lead spinner. Aushik hadn’t conceded a run in his three overs late on Wednesday, but Shaw slog-swept his first delivery of the morning from the line of the stumps; it was a shot that would fetch him rich returns all day. Emboldened by Shaw, Waghela, too, unwrapped a brace of powerful sweeps against Aushik, who went for 31 in his four-over spell and was taken off the attack.Shankar and B Aparajith were introduced belatedly, but the outcome wasn’t going to change. If swatting Aparajith for a six over long on was another illustration of Shaw’s bravado, he showed in the next delivery that he could be sensible too; he stayed on leg stump, beside the line of the ball, and gently worked the ball off the backfoot into the vacant cover-point region for a single. Ironically, the top-edged pull for four that brought up Shaw’s fifty was the only shot that lacked conviction. Despite losing Waghela, who was caught after top-edging a pre-meditated sweep off a good length, Mumbai went into lunch the more confident team at 113 for 1.Left-arm seamer T Natarajan, who had been introduced only an over before lunch, was Tamil Nadu’s latest gambit. Mumbai’s response was to unleash a double-barrelled assault, with Shreyas Iyer and Shaw having fun at their opponents’ expense. Aushik returned for a fresh spell, and bowled from over the stumps to target the rough outside the right-hand batsmen’s leg stump. Whenever Shaw didn’t kick the ball away, he swept furiously off the rough.The field was now spread out and the spinners bowled defensive lines to provoke a loose shot, but despite only 29 runs coming in the first 10 overs after lunch, Iyer and Shaw didn’t lose their heads. Eventually, it was Tamil Nadu’s patience that wore thin, as neither the change of bowlers or ball – two balls were replaced in the space of 10 overs – brought them the desired results.Shankar ended the 91-run stand by removing Iyer in the 47th over, but Suryakumar blew out the faintest flicker of hope for Tamil Nadu with some lusty hitting. The only element of interest was if eventual man-of-the-match Shaw would hit the winning runs, but he perished to a slog after attempting to finish the game quickly The winning run in the following over was an anti-climax when Siddhesh Lad turned Aparajith’s delivery into the leg side for a single; it was a good few seconds later – after the scorers provided the confirmation – that Mumbai knew they had done it. In a chase that was as effortless as it was meticulous, who could fault them.

Afghanistan earned a hard-fought two-wicket win in the second ODI against Bangladesh in Mirpur to level the three-match series

The Report by Mohammad Isam in Mirpur28-Sep-2016
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsAsghar Stanikzai scored a crucial half-century in a tricky chase for Afghanistan•Associated Press

Afghanistan earned a hard-fought two-wicket win in the second ODI against Bangladesh in Mirpur to level the three-match series, banking on astute planning to leave the home crowd at the Shere Bangla National Stadium stunned. The win came mainly through a 107-run partnership for the fifth wicket between Mohammad Nabi and captain Asghar Stanikzai in a chase of 209. Both batsmen were out with Afghanistan 35 away from a win, but Najibullah Zadran rallied the lower order and the side scraped through with two balls to spare.Nabi and Stanikzai came together at the crease in the 16th over with Afghanistan at 63 for 4, following Mohammad Shahzad’s miscued slog to backward point off Shakib Al Hasan. The pair struck a four and a six off Shakib in the same over but had to wait another 5.4 for another boundary.Despite the lull in boundaries, the pair kept rotating the strike and Stanikzai fought cramps to score his sixth ODI fifty, which included four fours and two sixes. Nabi, who had taken the wickets of Shakib and Mashrafe Mortaza earlier in the match, missed out on the landmark when Mashrafe trapped him lbw in the 40th over, and the side lost Stanikzai in the next over, caught at the deep square leg boundary off debutant Mosaddek Hossain.Rashid Khan became Shakib’s fourth victim, in his final over, trapped plumb in front for 5, with Afghanistan 20 runs away from the target. Mirwais Ashraf played out Shakib’s last two deliveries carefully, and the bowler ended with returns of 4 for 47. Najibullah and Ashraf then saw off the next over, which was Mashrafe’s last.The match could have still swung Bangladesh’s way had Mushfiqur Rahim completed an easy stumping of Zadran with 13 runs required. Bangladesh’s players were crestfallen, but Taskin ended up removing the left-hander in the final over with the scores level. The winning hit came from the other Zadran, Dawlat, who slashed a boundary through backward point.Afghanistan’s chase had started with Shahzad flicking a four off the first ball before Nawroz Mangal took two fours off Shakib in the fourth over. Two balls later, however, Mangal misread Shakib’s length and spooned a catch to cover. Shakib went onto have Rahmat Shah lbw for a two-ball duck in the same over.Shahzad sparkled briefly and added 45 runs for the third wicket with Hashmatullah Shahidi, who was trapped lbw for 14 by Mosaddek off his first ball in ODI cricket. Shakib then had Shahzad skewing a catch to backward point for a run-a-ball 35.Bangladesh’s innings would have ended sooner had it not been for the 43-run stand for the tenth wicket between Mosaddek and Rubel, who kept out Rashid’s hat-trick delivery in the 43rd over. Rashid was rampant at that stage, having removed Taijul and Taskin off successive balls.Mosaddek finished with an unbeaten 45, including four boundaries and two sixes. The scoop over long leg and pull over midwicket stood out. When he had come out to bat, Bangladesh were 138 for 5 with Shakib having been given out lbw to a debatable decision. Mosaddek saw wickets tumble around him, but stayed composed.Earlier, Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah added 61 for the third wicket, but Bangladesh lost their last seven wickets for 86 runs. That proved the turning point.

Andre Russell will not play in Kolkata Knight Riders’ crucial match against Gujarat Lions in Kanpur on Thursday

Nagraj Gollapudi17-May-2016Andre Russell will not play in Kolkata Knight Riders’ crucial match against Gujarat Lions on May 19. The 28-year old allrounder limped off the field midway through the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Monday with a suspected injury to his left leg; he did not travel with the squad that reached Kanpur on Tuesday evening.Russell is the tournament’s third highest wicket-taker with 15 scalps, and Knight Riders’ fourth highest run-scorer with 188 runs. He bowled 2.3 overs against Royal Challengers and left the field twice, first midway through the Royal Challengers innings and after bowling three deliveries of the 19th over. In the penultimate over, Russell was helped off the field after he tumbled for the third time in his follow-through.With Knight Riders needing to win both their remaining matches to confirm a place in the playoffs, they will hope Russell can regain his fitness as soon possible. The medical staff is monitoring his injury and a definitive prognosis is likely in the coming days.Knight Riders have 14 points from 12 games and have to face Lions away and Sunrisers Hyderabad at home. They are among four teams with a positive net run-rate (0.28) and can make the knockouts even if they do not win any more matches. In that case, however, Knight Riders will have to depend on other teams’ results going their way as well.

Jamie Overton’s call up for the England squad alongside brother Craig has raised hopes that England could be about to see the first twins ever play together in the international side

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Jun-20153:06

Dobell: Overton twins’ selection not a huge surprise

England have called up Somerset fast bowler Jamie Overton to their ODI squad for the remaining two ODIs against New Zealand. Jamie joins his brother Craig in the squad and presents the prospect of England fielding twins in the same match for the first time.Jamie Overton, the 21-year-old from Devon, replaces Liam Plunkett who has been ruled out of the series with a thigh strain having played the first two matches of the series. Craig Overton replaced Chris Jordan who was also injured after the second ODI.These are selections based on future potential rather than performance, exciting in the recognition of might one day be achieved, but it would be possible to advance a case that they are illogical and lacking credibility if county statistics are to be given any credence. Perhaps England are just taking a development check. After all, building for the 2019 World Cup is the mantra.Somerset have rarely seen them in the same side together, partly because of injuries, partly because they remain inconsistent performers, although they did combine to devastating effect for the first time this season against Yorkshire last month. Even so, for them both to be called up by England in the same match before their county careers are barely established would be startling.Jamie is a bowler of genuine pace and imposing height at six-foot-five. He was first called up to the England squad against Australia in August 2013 but was not handed a debut. That winter he was picked for England Lions but was forced to pull out of the tour because of a knee injury.Jamie’s 2014 was also hampered by injury and when he did return could not win a place back in Somerset’s first XI and ended up back playing club cricket in Devon but he did spent time during the winter with the England Performance Programme and made a promising start to this season. But after a series of impressive spells, picked up another problem during the Middlesex Championship match at the end of April and was forced back on the sidelines.His ability with the white ball is less obvious. He has played only 14 List A matches and has taken 20 wickets at 27.00 with an economy rate of 6.27. He began the season with six wickets in three County Championship matches but with the white ball has proved expensive, conceding 128 runs in 12 overs from four matches.With Jamie missing from Somerset’s County Championship side, Craig, with better all-round ability, was brought in and played a key role in his side’s first victory of the season at Nottinghamshire, scoring a vital half-century and taking six wickets. But when both twins appeared against Yorkshire at the end of May they sent the cider pumps buzzing with a stand of 76 runs from only 5.5 overs – one of the few times they have both played together for Somerset.Craig himself has struggled with injuries, missing almost all of 2013 but bounced back to win a place on the England Lions tour to South Africa in January this year, only to have to come home early because of an ankle injury that eventually required surgery – something he says was actually a blessing in disguise. He has only appeared in the County Championship this summer yet could be in line for a one-day international debut this week, possibly alongside his twin.Their father Mark has played cricket for many years for North Devon CC, where they first knocked up on the outfield at Instow. When they began to play, it was Jamie who became the threatening fast bowler while Craig’s qualities seemed more rounded with both bat and ball. They were educated at West Buckland School, where one of the most iconic West Country cricketers, Harold Gimblett was also educated.If they ever play together, they might even one day outrank the Bedsers in English folkore. But only one of the Bedsers made it an international level, a reminder that sometimes achievement falls unevenly on twins. it was Alec who became one of England’s great bowling stalwarts in the post-war years, with his brother Eric only playing for England in a practice game against Tasmania on England’s 1950-51 tour of Australia.

The players’ auction of the Bangladesh Premier League has been shifted to December 20 while the tournament’s second edition is set to begin on January 18

Mohammad Isam15-Dec-2012The players’ auction of the Bangladesh Premier League has been shifted to December 20 while the tournament’s second edition is set to begin on January 18, with the opening ceremony to be held the previous day. It had been earlier announced that the auction would be held on December 9. But since that co-incided with the home series against West Indies, the date had to be shifted.”We will hold the opening ceremony on January 17 and start the tournament on January 18,” Ismail Haider Mallik, the new BPL secretary, said. “The players’ auction will take place on December 20 while a new franchise will be finalised tomorrow. We will bring on board Rangpur as the seventh franchisee.”The announcement was made at a press conference; it was also an occasion to introduce the new faces in the BPL governing council. Afzalur Rahman Sinha is the new BPL chairman (replacing Gazi Ashraf Hossain) while Mallik has been made secretary (in place of Sirajuddin Mohammad Alamgir) after the previous directors’ body of the BCB dissolved in late November and was replaced by an ad-hoc committee soon after, which included both Sinha and Mallik.But the new BPL committee has had to tackle the same issues, chiefly pertaining to player payments as well as having a contract between the organisers and the six existing franchises.”We will have the agreements with the franchises completed before December 20. There will be a few instructions regarding players’ payment. For instance, 25% of the payment has to be made between the players’ auction and the start of the tournament.”Before the last match of the tournament, 25% should be paid and the rest of the money will be paid within six months of the end of the last match. These are just some of the technicalities that will be incorporated in the agreement,” said Mallik.The organisers, this time as well, have been defensive, taking the “too little time to prepare” line when it comes to solving disputes (like player payments, contract with franchises, etc) from the previous tournament. Sinha, the new chairman, believes that since the new governing council took over in late November, they haven’t had enough time to sort out all the disputes.”We have had very little time to solve the disputes. We are letting the ball roll as of now because we won’t get any other free slot to host the tournament. We will definitely solve the disputes with the franchises but as of now the tournament has to go on.”The disputes regarding the foreign players’ payment have been solved, we have heard a few disputes with the local players but we have been in the BCB for only a few days. We will definitely solve it in the coming days. Ten to twelve days’ time, that is not enough to host a league like the BPL.”Both Mallick and Sinha assured the payment will be made in time and that it will “go through the BCB” from the franchises this time. “The payment will be done through the BCB this time. Franchisees will pay us and we will pay the players.”We have given the franchises a time to make all remaining payments to the local players and they have agreed. We are very hopeful that they’ll give the entire payment,” Sinha said.

Glamorgan have signed Shaun Marsh, the Australian top order batsman, as their second overseas player for this year’s Friend’s Life T20.

Alex Winter05-May-2012Glamorgan have signed Shaun Marsh, the Australian top order batsman, as their second overseas player for this year’s Friends Life t20. He joins Marcus North who has arrived to play for the rest of the season. Martin van Jaarsveld has also been signed but holds a British passport.Marsh, a powerful left-handed top-order batsman, will attempt to revive Glamorgan’s T20 fortunes. Since losing to Leicestershire in the 2004 semi-final, they have failed to make any impression on the competition, something a major regime change two winters ago was designed to rectify.”Having played in both IPL and the Big Bash in Australia, I’m really looking forward to drawing on my experience and hitting some runs when I join up with Glamorgan,” Marsh said.”I played alongside Marcus at Western Australia before, so it will be great to join up with him again. Hopefully we can have a great t20 tournament and with the final of the competition in Cardiff it should be a great summer ahead.”Marsh, 28, has scored 2,563 domestic T20 runs at 42.01 with a strike rate of 135.82. He scored 117 runs in two innings for Perth, helping them to the semi-final of the Big Bash League in Australia, where he played with North. He is currently playing for Kings XI Punjab in the IPL, having scored over 1,300 runs in the competition.Matthew Mott, Glamorgan head of elite development, said: “To bring in a player of Shaun’s calibre, a genuine match winner, to the top of the batting order will make us a more potent attacking force and with Shaun’s experience of the competition across the world, he will also provide our young guns with a great deal of confidence.”

Kumar Sangakkara is a doubt for the opening Test against South Africa after splitting the webbing on his right hand

Firdose Moonda at Willowmoore Park11-Dec-2011Kumar Sangakkara is a doubt for the opening Test against South Africa after splitting the webbing on his right hand during the warm-up match against an Invitational XI in Benoni. His concerns added to Sri Lanka’s problems as they ended the rain-hit three-day match in a more wounded state than when they began having also watched Nuwan Pradeep tear his right hamstring.Pradeep suffered his injury after bowling ten deliveries on the second day and, while he was not immediately ruled out of the tour, it seems likely he’ll soon fly home . Sri Lanka were already without four injured quicks who didn’t make the original squad. Sangakkara, meanwhile, faces a tight timeframe to be ready for the first Test at Centurion on Thursday after tearing webbing between the first and second fingers on his right hand while fielding at point and did not bat on the final day.He has had three stitches in the wound and hopes “it will settle over the next three to four days.” However, although the injury was played down by team manager Anura Tennekoon, Sangakkara himself was cautious about his prospects. “We just have to keep an eye on it and see how we go,” he said. “That’s the annoying thing about these little injuries. We can’t say for certain.”One thing Sangakkara was sure of was that he will not take the field next week unless he is declared fully fit, even though he is able to hold a bat with his current injury. “You probably could [play] but you don’t want to hamper the side by being half-fit,” he said. “You need to be 100% to play in a Test match. I have to be confident that I can handle a bat, otherwise I won’t play.”There is a glimmer of hope for Sri Lanka, though. Their bowling reserves may be beefed up by the return to fitness of two of the four injured seamers who are currently back home. Prior to their departure to South Africa, Nuwan Kulasekara, Dhammika Prasad, Shaminda Eranga and Suranga Lakmal were all ruled out of their tour but the former two could be called back into the side.”It’s not been a great few months. We’ve got eight or nine really top-class fast bowlers but when you have half of them nursing injuries it doesn’t help the side’s cause,” Sangakkara said. “Kulasekara and Dhammika Prasad both have just come back to bowling now so they will stand a good chance of coming back on the tour.”No replacement players have been named yet but Sri Lanka are expected to make assessments in the next two days and take a call about whether they need additional players ahead of the first Test.

Jonathan Trott reminded the England selectors that he can play Twenty20 cricket as well as the longer form of the game

16-Jun-2010
ScorecardJonathan Trott reminded the England selectors that he can play Twenty20 cricket as well as the longer form of the game as Warwickshire claimed a five-wicket Friends Provident t20 win over Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston.David Hussey top-scored with 81 not out in Nottinghamshire’s 176 for 6. But Trott hit an aggressive 46 at the top of the order as the hosts inflict a first defeat on Notts in this season’s competition.Trott made a double century in the first Test against Bangladesh last month but missed out on a place in the World Twenty20 squad and has also been omitted from England’s squad for the forthcoming one-day internationals against Scotland and Australia.He faced 30 balls for his highest Twenty20 score of the season and his opening stand of 74 in 40 balls with Neil Carter set Warwickshire on course for their third win in the competition – a result which moved them into second place in the North group, a point adrift of Nottinghamshire.The pitch, which was used for the third time in six days, was still full of runs but Nottinghamshire were plunged into early trouble before Hussey came to the rescue. The visitors were 35 for 3, which quickly became 40 for 4, when Hussey came to the crease.But the Australian steered them to a strong total with an innings of superb placement. There were two sixes – both straight driven off Imran Tahir and Rikki Clarke – and eight fours in Hussey’s 42-ball innings but he also expertly found the gaps on the long Rea Bank boundary to scamper twos and singles. His 81 was his highest Twenty20 score in England.Chris Read, who has handed over the captaincy to Hussey for this competition, gave excellent support in a fifth wicket stand of 78 in nine overs and Paul Franks sustained the assault with 23 from 12 balls after Read drove to Trott at deep backward point.In reply, Warwickshire stuttered after Trott was caught behind carving at slow left-armer Graeme White and they lost three wickets for eight runs in three overs. However, Clarke and Ant Botha saw them home with seven balls to spare with a unbroken sixth wicket stand of 54 from 29 balls.Clarke atoned for bowling four overs for 48 by rattling to 34 from 22 balls which included three sixes, the most decisive a leg-side flick off Dirk Nannes in what proved to be the final over.