It's not the winning that counts

What is there to do in the (ever decreasing) period between the end of one football season and the start of the next pre-season friendlies ? Especially when there's no World Cup / European Championship to fill the summer months.

Fortunately, someone came up with the novel idea of making cricket (cricket !!!) interesting.

20/20

Two teams, 20 overs each, who can score the most runs. No stupid "power-play" rules, no fielding restrictions, just 20 overs of slogging.

So off on a works jolly to the Notts v Derbyshire game last night.

Notts got off to a flyer, and never dropped below a good 10 runs per over rate. A final score of 203 helped by at least three dropped catches and several fielding slip-ups.

Derbyshire never got out of the blocks and by the end of the second over were not only 16 runs short of their required rate, but also two wickets down. They needed just the 58 off the final over. Enough said.

It's not the winning that counts, it's the hammering any team from just down the A52 firmly into the ground.