Budinger Century & Trevaskis Five-Fer Fire Foxes To Derby Day Delight

By Jon Culley, ECB Reporters’ Network supported by Rothesay

Leicestershire Foxes built on a superb century from opener Sol Budinger to thrash neighbours Notts Outlaws in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup at Kibworth, winning by 124 runs after the visitors were bowled out for 209 in 38 overs.

Budinger, who started his career at Trent Bridge, made 102 from 80 balls as Leicestershire totalled 333 for eight from 50 overs. His second hundred in three visits to the well-appointed club ground included three sixes and 13 fours.

He shared a third-wicket stand of 106 in 15 overs with Shan Masood (50 off 60), while Peter Handscomb and Liam Trevaskis each scored 45 with 99 runs coming off the final 10 overs.

Jack Haynes hit 56 from 62 balls in the Notts reply but no other top-six batter made more than 23. Left-arm spinner Trevaskis took a career-best five for 52 as the Foxes made it two wins from three to keep themselves among the Group A front-runners.

Opting to make first use of what looked a good batting track, the Foxes lost Rishi Patel second ball, leg before to Brett Hutton after taking a boundary of the first delivery.

But Budinger looked in great touch from the outset, receiving support from Ian Holland (32 from 38) as the first 10 overs yielded 58 for one before the latter was stumped off Liam Patterson-White.

Budinger pulled and drove Patterson-White for two of his sixes, adding a third with a superbly-timed pick-up off Lyndon James, the third taking him the left-hander to 95, a 75-ball century needing just two more deliveries.

Having matched his score against Essex here two years ago, Budinger looked good for a few more but did not quite get hold of an attempt to clear the straight boundary off Rob Lord and Pocklington, sprinting round from wide mid-on, threw himself into a fine catch in front of the sight screen.

Masood was caught at long-on and Ben Cox at deep square, but Handscomb, after a circumspect start, joined Trevaskis in injecting some momentum, each hitting maximums off Patterson-White before holing out. Ben Mike’s 13-ball 25, with cleanly-struck sixes off Hutton and Lord, took the total past 320.

Nottinghamshire’s reply suffered an early setback when Ben Slater was out caught behind off Chris Wright. The visitors were virtually level with the Foxes at 57 for one from 10 after Haynes and Haseeb Hameed had shared eight boundaries but the entry of Scriven into the attack snared Hameed with a superb first ball that had the Notts skipper caught behind with no argument.

Haynes numbered nine boundaries in reaching fifty from 51 balls but by the halfway point the Outlaws were not only slipping behind the required rate, they had lost four more wickets at 128 for six.

Freddie McCann fell to an impressive diving catch by Handscomb at midwicket to give Scriven a second wicket, Haynes was leg before trying to sweep Trevaskis, who also had Tom Moores trapped in front playing across the line before Sam Seecharan was caught at square leg.

James and Patterson-White added 46 but both were out in the same over by Trevaskis, leaving the Outlaws 174 for eight in the 32nd. 18-year-old quick Alex Green picked up his 11th wicket of the competition when Pocklington skied to midwicket, before Trevaskis bowled Hutton to finish the job.