NOR vs NOT 12th Match - North Group Prediction

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Northamptonshire

Ben Duckett's excellent knock of 96 was reduced to a losing cause as Northamptonshire bowlers failed to defend a whopping total of 218 and that too at home. Duckett continued from where he left at Cardiff as he got 10 runs of Raine's over. He then took 12 from Parkinson's first over. Richard Levi could not get going in the first match and departed for a personal score of 6.

Almost all of Northants' batsmen did well with Joshua Cobb and Alex Wakely contributing with the scores of 56 and 51 in 33 and 24 deliveries respectively. At one stage Northants' looked all set to defend their mammoth total before Colin Ackermann took the matter in his own hands to power Leicestershire to a win.

Although he bowled only a couple of overs, Joshua Cobb was particularly impressive with his bowling his well. He went for just 13 in his two overs and picked up an important wicket of Cameron Delport. Rory Kleinveldt bowled well until the last over where the five wides bowled by him proved to be the match for Leicestershire. Overall, Northamptonshire were good for the majority of the match, but some poor bowling in the death overs hurt them and they'd have to fix that going into the next game.

Nottinghamshire

In front of the crowd of over 12000 people, Nottinghamshire put up a disappointing performance where both their bowlers and batsmen failed to deliver. To add insult to injury, Chris Nash, one of their important batsmen, got himself injured while trying to take a catch. He is expected to miss out at least a couple of games.

Batting first, the absence of Alex Hales was clearly felt as Nottinghamshire could not really gather any momentum right through their innings. Barring Riki Wessels, who lived up to his expectation and scored quick-fire 41, no batsman could really get going for the Notts. Had it not been the quick cameos of 22 and 27 from Mullaney and Fletcher respectively, they'd struggled to get to a total of even 150.

Ish Sodhi used his experience to weave a miserly spell, but apart from him no bowler who bowled with a decent economy rate. With Chris Nash out due to the shoulder injury and Alex Hales set to miss another match, Nottinghamshire are in all sorts of troubles and would need to get their combination before time runs out.