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Hain’s T20 debut silences 10,000 at Trent Bridge
- Updated: May 20, 2016
Birmingham 185 for 4 (Hain 92*) beat Nottinghamshire (Wessels 52, Smith 42, Patel 3-23) 179 for 7 by 6 runs Scorecard
Sam Hain powered Birmingham Bears to an impressive six wicket victory over Notts Outlaws on the opening evening of this season’s NatWest T20 Blast competition.
Set to score 180, the Bears reached their target with two balls to spare, in front of a Trent Bridge crowd of 10,423. Hain, playing the first T20 match of his career, had opened the innings and finished on a highly impressive 92 not out. The 20-year-old scored his runs from only 54 balls, hitting 12 fours and two sixes.
Riki Wessels, the Nottinghamshire batsman, said: “Sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say, “Well played” because that was a brilliant innings from Sam Hain.
“We thought 180 was a challenging target, I found it quite difficult out there to bat. It was a new wicket and the ball stuck in the wicket a touch and I thought we’d got a really good score but unfortunately the rain and the dew spiced the wicket up beautifully for batting.”
Earlier, Notts made 179 for seven, with Riki …
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