Durham completed a remarkable four-wicket win against the Nottinghamshire Outlaws at Trent Bridge in a run-chase that will live long in the memory.
From a position of 8/2, battling half-centuries by Graham Clark & Cameron Steel kept Durham in touch before Paul Collingwood saw it home with 73 not out.
Here we look at some of the numbers behind the chase, the Royal London One-Day Cup campaign so far & where it leaves Keaton Jennings’ men heading into the final two matches.
298 – The eventual score of 299/6 with five balls remaining was the second highest chase in our List A history
160 – The third wicket stand between Clark & Steel was worth 160, the highest for the third wicket against Nottinghamshire in our List A history. It’s even more impressive when they came together at 8/2 in the third over chasing two shy of 300.
Three – It was only Steel’s fifth List A game & Clark’s barely a veteran with 16 under his belt, but the pair smashed their previous career-bests in this format against a bowling attack full of international players. Steel passed his in the 15th over before Clark did similar in the 23rd.
Paul Coughlin’s knock of 22 in a 40-run partnership alongside Paul Collingwood made it three career-bests with the bat in one innings.
191* – Collingwood’s last three innings have yielded 191 runs without dismissal. Two have seen Durham to victory, including last night, while he added a crucial 53* against the Northants Steelbacks at Emirates Riverside.
They have come off a combined 150 balls with no fewer than 22 boundaries, three of which went the full distance…
200 – It takes the 40-year-old’s average up to a whopping 200, having been dismissed just once in five innings!
Five – The number of wickets inside the final two overs at the cost of just nine runs, with both Paul Coughlin & Mark Wood narrowly missing out on hat-tricks. After the Outlaws built momentum, the comeback in the closing overs proved pivotal in the end.
16 – James Weighell continues to lead the Royal London One-Day Cup wicket-takers & three more at Trent Bridge made it 16 for the season so far. He hadn’t even played a game in this format before this season.
1,453 – The amount of runs chalked up by the batsmen in six games to date. It has come in 265.3 overs, meaning the runs have flowed at almost five-and-a-half per over throughout the entire competition so far.
2/7 – It may not have been their night at Trent Bridge but Keaton Jennings (403 runs) & Michael Richardson (352) have made more than telling contributions so far. With three hundreds & five half-centuries between them, the pair sit in the top seven run-scorers across both groups in this year’s tournament.