Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire

LV= Country Championship Division 1

11 am start
Trent Bridge 25th - 28th April 2011

Worcestershire Team:
Daryl Mitchell*, James Cameron, Vikram Solanki, Moeen Ali, Alexei Kervezee, Matt Pardoe, Ben Cox, Gareth Andrew, Damien Wright, Matt Mason, Alan Richardson, Jack Shantry

Nottinghamshire Team:
Mark Wagh, Paul Franks, Alex Hales, Samit Patel, Adam Voges, Neil Edwards, Chris Read+*, Steven Mullaney, Andre Adams, Luke Fletcher, Charlie Shreck.

Last Meeting:
The last first class match between Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire was at New Road in 2009 (scorecard). Gareth Andrew scored his FC career best score of 92 during the 1st innings, and Imran Arif took 5-93. Worcestershire set Notts a target of 357 to win in the final innings, which they got very close to, finishing on 351-7, helped mainly by 84 from Alastair Brown and unbeaten 70* from Notts skipper Chris Read.

Head to Head record:
Worcestershire have played Nottinghamshire a total of 122 times in FC cricket with Nottinghamshire leading the way with 41 wins to Worcestershire’s 34, with 46 drawn matches and a tied match in 1993.

Highest individual scores:
(Wor) Graeme Hick 227* New Road 1986
(Not) Reg Simpson 243* Trent Bridge 1950

Best innings bowling:
(Wor) Neal Radford 8-55 Kidderminster 1987
(Not) Bruce Dooland 8-20 Trent Bridge 1956

Milestones:
Matt Mason has reached 100 First Class matches played, taking 317 wickets at an average of 27.16

Live ball by ball coverage by BBC Hereford & Worcester either on MW738 or on line through the BBC website.

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