After getting to know each other over four days of County Championship combat at Trent Bridge, the cricketers of Notts and Durham will head north to play each over the NatWest T20 Blast format at Chester-le-Street on Wednesday evening, starting at 6.30pm.

The game will give the Outlaws an opportunity to record their first win of the tournament, after losing their home opener against Birmingham Bears last week.

Durham Jets have played two matches in this year’s Blast tournament, winning one and losing one. They lost their opening match, going down to Worcestershire Rapids at New Road but bounced back with a comfortable win over Lancashire Lightning at Old Trafford.

Head To Head

Notts Outlaws have played a total of 20 matches in the T20 format against Durham, winning ten, losing seven and with three matches being abandoned.

In the north east the Outlaws have won on three occasions (2010, 2012 and 2013), have lost four times (2003, 2005, 2009 and 2011) and the 2007, 2008 and 2014 matches were all abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Last Time

An explosive innings of 97 off 51 balls from Riki Wessels carried Notts Outlaws to a 42-run win against Durham Jets in last season’s NatWest T20 Blast match at Chester-le-Street.

The Outlaws’ third successive win kept alive their hopes of snatching the fourth qualifying place in the north group and ended Durham's chances of progress.

Going in when Alex Hales holed out at deep mid-wicket in the third over for three, Wessels hit five sixes in propelling the Outlaws to 198 for five, to which Durham replied with 156 for six.

Wessels still had eight balls left in the Notts innings to become the first man to score a T20 century for the county but he then top-edged an attempted sweep to the wicketkeeper.

James Taylor spooned the next ball straight to deep backward square but his 37 off 22 balls had helped to put the game beyond Durham in a stand of 98 in eight overs.

Durham's final home match attracted a crowd of 4,574 for the floodlit encounter and after putting the visitors in they restricted them to ten runs off the first two overs.

But Hales' departure merely brought in Wessels, who greeted Usman Arshad's first ball in the fifth over by striking it powerfully through mid-wicket from outside off stump.

That over cost 13 before Wessels drove Chris Rushworth for six as the next over yielded 16 to take the Outlaws to 54 for one after the six powerplay overs.

Wessels cleared long-on twice more in scorching to 50 off 26 balls but a stand of 65 in six overs with Michael Lumb ended when the left-hander chipped to deep cover for 31.

Samit Patel made only four before upper cutting a short ball from Rushworth to be caught by Arshad at third man.

Durham made a spirited start, racing to 39 in 3.4 overs before Phil Mustard lofted a catch to long-on off Dan Christian after making 25 off 14 balls.

Graham Clark then faced three dot balls before giving himself room to drive through the off-side, only to lose his leg stump to Jake Ball.

Paul Collingwood was unable to find the boundary in making 24 off 26 balls before lifting Steven Mullaney to long-on.

Durham slid to 89 for five in the 14th over, leaving Hastings and Gordon Muchall with an impossible task. 

Hastings hit 42 in a stand of 62 before he was bowled off his pads by Harry Gurney's final ball in the 19th over, Muchall ending the game unbeaten on 30 as Christian conceded no boundaries from the last over of the match.

History

On the very first day of T20 cricket in this country, back in 2003, the opening match of the new tournament featured Durham at home to Notts.

The game was played at Chester-le-Street on 13th June and it was Durham who emerged victorious, with a six-wicket triumph.

Jason Gallian skippered Notts and led the charge with an innings of 62 as his side posted 157 for seven.

Opener Nicky Peng led the response with an innings of 49, as the home county cantered to their target with five balls to spare.

Teams for that very first contest:

Durham: Peng, Mustard, Wells, Thorpe, G Pratt, Lewis, Muchall, Hunter, Phillips, Killeen, Davies

Notts: Gallian, Afzaal, Welton, Pietersen, Shafayat, Franks, Clough, Noon, Logan, Harris, MacGill

Stats (Notts v Durham in T20)

Highest Team Total

Notts 213-4 (Trent Bridge 2011)

Durham 187-8 (Chester-le-Street 2012)

Highest Individual Innings

Notts 97 MH Wessels (Chester-le-Street 2015)

Durham 75 P Mustard (Chester-le-Street 2011)

Best Bowling

Notts 4-25 SJ Mullaney (Trent Bridge 2014)

Durham 5-26 ME Claydon (Chester-le-Street 2009)

Played For Them Both

Seven cricketers have played in first class matches for both Nottinghamshire and Durham. The first to do so was wicketkeeper Chris Scott, who played 63 times for Notts between 1981 and 1991, then moved north to join Durham for their debut season in the county championship.

Others to have represented the two counties include: Mark Saxelby, Nathan Astle, John Morris, Will Smith, Mark Davies and Will Gidman.

Coverage

For live scorecard, regular written updates & photography throughout the four days - and a live link to the BBC Radio Commentary - Trent Bridge Live is your perfect match day companion.  

 

Notts Outlaws NatWest T20 Blast Fixtures & Ticket Information

Vs. Lancashire Lightning – Saturday 4 June 2.30pm BUY TICKETS

Vs. Derbyshire Falcons – Friday 10 June 7.15pm BUY TICKETS

Vs. Durham Jets – Friday 1 July 6.30pm BUY TICKETS

Vs. Worcestershire Rapids – Saturday 9 July 2.30pm BUY TICKETS

Vs. Yorkshire Vikings – Friday 15 July 6.30pm BUY TICKETS

Vs. Leicestershire Foxes – Friday 29 July 6.30pm BUY TICKETS

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