Back to earth for Outlaws

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE were brought back to earth on Saturday night, following up Friday's thrilling victory with a damp squib of a defeat away to Lancashire in their second Vitality Blast North Group game.

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Lancashire openers Keaton Jennings and Luke Wells shared a North Group record stand of 177 inside 16 overs to set up a score of 216-3 and Notts never got close in reply as the game fizzled out.

Jennings crashed 95 off 49 balls and Wells 87 off 50.

They hit six sixes apiece and were dominant down the ground against both seam and spin.

The 13 sixes in the innings equalled a Lancashire record.

And yet Jennings had actually been dropped off his first ball, getting a leading edge to the part-time spin of Matt Montgomery, who went one-handed diving to his right and could not hold on.

Dillon Pennington, Daniel Sams and the left-arm spin of Liam Patterson-White all claimed a wicket apiece for the Outlaws but Montgomery was the pick of their attack, returning 0-20 from four overs of off-spin.

Wells reached his fifty first off 34 balls shortly before Jennings got his second in as many games off 27.