Taylor praise for Moores after second ton

Nottinghamshire 534 (Wessels 159*, Taylor 114, Patel 84, Hutton 74, Borthwick 5-79) and 289 for 5 (Taylor 105*, Lumb 52) drew with Durham 477 (Borthwick 188*, Bird 4-109)Scorecard

The forecast rain duly arrived soon after lunch to remove any chance of a positive result, denying Durham the opportunity they would have liked to chase a target and potentially overtake Lancashire at the top of the Division One table.

It held off long enough, though, for Brendan Taylor to follow his first Championship century in almost a year with a second in the space of four days, after which the former Zimbabwe captain was eager to thank former England coach Peter Moores, who is part of Nottinghamshire’s coaching staff, for devoting time and patience to helping reboot his technique and rebuild his confidence after one of the leaner patches in his career.

Taylor’s form began to wobble in the second half of last season and when the beginning of the current campaign produced no evidence of improvement, the 30-year-old batsman decided it was time for serious action.

“I know it is probably not ideal with the season in progress but I decided to do a full-on overhaul of my technique, in particular my trigger movement and backlift,” he said.

“I started tinkering a bit towards the end of last season when I was getting out lbw quite a few times but with a lot of T20 during the winter it didn’t give me a great deal of time to knuckle down and work on my technique.

“There was a lot of stuff going on in my head and I felt I needed to eliminate the clutter in my mind and narrow things down a bit and I’m grateful to Peter Moores for being so accommodating in the time he has given me.

“We are so …

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