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New Indian Express
a day ago
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- New Indian Express
In 2016, Duckett couldn't buy a run in India. Now, he's India's biggest headache. Here's how he did it
"We did loads of work one winter when he was in England," Botha says. "He would just phone me and say 'let's have a net' and we would just go. A lot of the time, it was about another pair of eyes, video analysis... the big thing for him in those days was about getting his pre delivery movements right. The bat face would close so the leg side was his go to but it also hindered him in certain areas. (Those sessions) it was fun, actually." The winter in question was 2020 when England had seemingly moved past Duckett. To be fair to the national selectors, he himself had thought his chance had come and gone. But that didn't stop him from 'removing the mask' about his own game. The two coaches at Notts and Duckett had regular conversations about his game and soon enough, the Kent-born batter was okay 'to move his game to vulnerable areas'. Botha explains. "It wasn't ground-breaking or anything," Botha remembers. "It was just evidence-based... this is where we at, you ready to take your game to where you want it to go? And credit to Ben because he really opened up and that allows... it's an in for any coach." Some of the conversations revolved around Duckett's first innings record at his then new club as well as a tendency to crossover with his feet. "The first thing we sort of worked through was getting his movements in a bit earlier," Botha, originally from Durban, explains. "He had the tendency to crossover a bit with his feet... we kind of stripped it bare. We simplified everything. After a point, he started to find his hands." This was around the time when he had inadvertently changed his bat grip following an injury. While Botha does mention it, it's not like 'we went to the nets one day to work on his bat grip.' "A lot of coaching is just waiting for the right time to say anything," he says. "I just threw a lot of balls at him, he's a short guy, he wasn't scoring enough runs square of the wicket. His off-side play was not near where he would have liked it to be from a wagon wheel point of view. He wasn't accessing backward point enough." The closed bat face was a problem. The solution was layered. "We didn't want to get too technical because that's not Ben's game. We just let him find it, we had experimental sessions and over time, he found it. There was no magic wand. It opened up the world on the off side."
BBC News
4 days ago
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- BBC News
Coach Alves leaves Notts after Paterson appointment
Notts County assistant coach Joao Alves has left the League Two club by mutual Portuguese 35-year-old had been seen as one of the favourites to succeed former boss Stuart Maynard at Meadow Lane, having stepped up to become the Magpies' number two last his four years with Notts has now come to an end just three days after Martin Paterson was appointed as head joined the club in 2021 as a match analyst, having previously worked for the club's owners, Chris and Alexander Reedtz, at Football Radar – a company founded by the Danish brothers that provides statistical football analysis and betting moved into a coaching role at Notts under Luke Williams, who guided the club to promotion from the National League in 2023. On Tuesday, Chris Reedtz confirmed that Alves was still "employed and part of the first-team coaching staff" and dismissed the suggestion that he had been the top contender for the top job."We considered a lot of candidates and I don't want to talk about specific names," Reedtz told BBC Radio Nottingham when asked about Alves' links to the job as head coach."Bookmakers' odds can be misleading sometimes, so I wouldn't put too much into that. But he is a very good coach and someone who has done a great job for the club."Paterson will have Andy Edwards as assistant head coach, with goalkeeper Sam Slocombe staying on at Meadow Lane as a first-team coach.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Leaders Notts beat rain to seal win over Yorkshire
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Headingley (day four) Nottinghamshire 228 & 393-8: Clarke 94; Coad 3-64 Yorkshire 159 & 299: Wharton 58; Pennington 5-106 Notts (19 pts) beat Yorkshire (3 pts) by 163 runs Match scorecard Five-wicket paceman Dillon Pennington helped Nottinghamshire complete a fourth win in seven matches, this one against Yorkshire at Headingley shortly before tea on day four, to strengthen their position at the Division One summit in the County Championship. Struggling Yorkshire were set a 463-target during the third afternoon and closed on 176-5, losing four of those wickets in the evening session, including one in the day's final over to Pennington. Yorkshire started the fourth day well, with top-scorer Matthew Revis and George Hill sharing a 54-run partnership to raise hopes of avoiding a fourth defeat in seven matches. But they needed much more and were later bowled out for 299 inside 121 overs, slipping to a 163-run defeat. The part-time spin of Freddie McCann made the breakthrough by bowling Hill with the first ball of a solitary over shortly before the new ball. Pennington then removed Revis for 45 just after lunch and finished with an impressive season's best 5-106 from 31 overs. Nottinghamshire claimed 19 points to Yorkshire's three and reach the midway point in the four-day campaign well placed to claim a first Championship title since 2010. Not since 2011 have they won at Headingley, a venue at which they have only ever won five Championship matches, including this. Pennington claimed three of his wickets on Monday in easing batting conditions to keep Yorkshire second-bottom in the table. Revis and new England Lions all-rounder Hill, who contributed 26, batted pretty comfortably through the first 85 minutes of a gloomy and chilly day. Although the former took a painful blow on the right thumb from the seam of Brett Hutton, he played confidently through the off-side off front foot and back on the way to a season's best score in his fourth appearance. But all Notts had to do was stay patient, and you felt success would come. And it did, even if it initially came via the most unexpected route. The off-spin of McCann was brought into the attack to bowl the 79th over, the penultimate before the new ball was due. He dragged his first ball down and Hill's eyes lit up. He went to pull, but the delivery scooted through and uprooted middle stump, leaving the score at 230-6. Seven balls into the afternoon, Pennington forced Revis - playing back - to feather behind to South African Kyle Verreynne with the score on 244. The same combination ousted Yorkshire's stand-in captain Dom Bess for 21 and then Ben Coad for five. By that stage, at 277-9, the outcome of the game was all but certain. With light rain starting to fall, last pair Jack White and Jordan Thompson resisted for more than an hour - and almost 20 overs - to threaten that theory. But Mohammad Abbas got White caught behind by Verreynne, whose sixth catch in the innings and ninth in the match sealed the win. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
BBC News
26-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
County Championship, day four - radio & text
Use the audio icons in the 'watch & listen' tab for live BBC Radio commentaries All games begin at 11:00 BST unless stated Notts need five wickets to beat Yorkshire Surrey face target of 417 against Essex at The Oval Worcestershire need to score 327 to beat Warwickshire Derbyshire require seven wickets to beat Kent Wins for Sussex, Somerset, Glamorgan and Leicestershire on day three
Yahoo
23-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Seamer Hill shines as Yorkshire & Notts batters toil
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Headingley (day one) Nottinghamshire 228: Clarke 64, Slater 52; Hill 5-40, Thompson 3-77 Yorkshire 10-2: Abbas 2-5 Yorkshire 3 pts, Nottinghamshire 0 pts Match scorecard Nottinghamshire's Ben Slater and Joe Clarke posted battling half-centuries and new England Lion George Hill claimed five more wickets for Yorkshire during a fascinating opening day of County Championship cricket at Headingley. Division One leaders Notts were bowled out for 228 by a White Rose side who sat second-bottom ahead of this seventh fixture of the summer. Opener Slater made 52 off 111 balls and Clarke 64 off 151, while Hill's seam accounted for 5-40 from 20 overs - his third haul of five wickets or more in as many matches. He is now the joint-leading wicket-taker in the country with 32. Yorkshire closed on 10-2 from 12 overs in reply, Mohammad Abbas striking twice. The hosts started well, with Jack White removing visiting skipper Haseeb Hameed, brilliantly caught one-handed at point by James Wharton diving low to his right. Even with a score of six, Hameed became the first man in Division One to pass 700 runs. Slater repelled the new ball and shared 56 for the second wicket with fellow left-hander Freddie McCann through to late morning. He reached his fifth fifty of 2025 off 109 balls. McCann fell just before lunch with the score on 65, caught low down at first slip off Jordan Thompson for 28. And when the same bowler clipped Slater's off-stump shortly after lunch, two balls after he reached 50, the score slipped to 102-3 in the 38th over. That was the first of three wickets to fall for 19 runs inside nine overs, with Notts now 121-5 in the 47th. Hill bowled Jack Haynes shouldering arms and shortly afterwards bowled South African Kyle Verreynne through the gate. Clarke reached his 50 off 123 balls and, with the help of 29 from James, advanced Nottinghamshire's cause. But Yorkshire hit back to limit the damage. The 71-stand between Clarke and James was broken by Thompson's third wicket - the latter caught behind by wicketkeeper Harry Duke following a top-edged pull. In the next over, Liam Patterson-White offered Duke a more regulation catch off Hill's prolific seam - 197-7 after 73 overs. Hill then had Brett Hutton caught at second slip and Clarke brilliantly caught by Thompson on the run at third-man following an attempted reverse scoop. White wrapped things up by bowling Dillon Pennington after he had heaved a four and six. Abbas then had Yorkshire openers Adam Lyth and Fin Bean caught behind for two apiece before close. And the concern for Yorkshire is that in their Pakistani Test star, Notts have the perfect bowler for these conditions. Report supplied by ECB Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
