There’s little time between matches for the Notts Outlaws side at the moment. After matches in the south of the country, against Sussex and Essex, they have travelled north to the Aigburth ground in Liverpool to face Lancashire Lightning on Tuesday (4th August, 10.30am).

Notts currently top Group B and remain unbeaten after three wins and a no result from their opening four fixtures. Lancashire have just three points from the same number of matches, with a win, two defeats and a no result.

Getting into the top four spots guarantees a quarter final place, with first and second in each group securing home advantage in the next round.

Head To Head

Lancashire have shaded the overall head-to-head encounters in one-day cricket over the years. They have won 38 of the 62 of the meetings, with Notts being successful on 17 occasions.

There have also been five No Results and two complete abandonments.

32 of the 33 matches in Lancashire have been staged at Old Trafford. The one exception was a 1986 meeting in the Benson and Hedges Cup, which was played at this week’s venue (below).

Last Time

The only previous one-day meetings between Lancashire and Nottinghamshire at Liverpool took place in 1986. In the group stages of the 55 overs per side Benson and Hedges Cup, a score of 263 for seven put Notts on the way to a 20-run victory.

Rain had interrupted the Notts innings on 171 for five and the match was extended into a second day. Skipper Clive Rice top-scored for the visitors with 71, Tim Robinson made 58 from the top of the order, John Birch added an unbeaten 48 and Richard Hadlee weighed in with 37.

England international Paul Allott took three for 53 for the home side.

Lancashire were rocked in their pursuit of 264, with early wickets for Richard Hadlee and Kevin Cooper reducing them to nine for two.

The fightback was led by Clive Lloyd, who raced to 67 but he, and fellow left-hander Neil Fairbrother, who scored 33, were both dismissed by Andy Pick as the visitors stamped their authority.

Late wickets for Hadlee enabled him to finish with four for 53, to seal the man of the match award, with the Red Rose innings closing on 243 for eight.

History

Chris Read bagged six catches at Hove last week, becoming the first Nottinghamshire wicketkeeper to achieve the feat in one day cricket. He had twice claimed five catches, emulating a tally first set by Deryck Murray.

Against Lancashire at Trent Bridge in 1968, Murray caught Graham Atkinson, Jack Bond, John Sullivan, Ken Shuttleworth and Peter Lever in a winning Gillette Cup match. Murray repeated the feat a year later in the same competition, against Yorkshire at Scarborough.

One-day best figures of 4-17 by Lancashire’s David Lloyd condemned Nottinghamshire to defeat in a Benson and Hedges Cup group match at Old Trafford in 1980. The significance of the result meant that it was the Red Rose county who secured home advantage in the quarter-finals, with Notts having to travel to Northants – where they lost.

In September 1980, a large Trent Bridge crowd turned out to pay their respects to Richard Hadlee, due to play his final match in Nottinghamshire colours. However, against Lancashire in the John Player League, he produced what would be the best one-day figures of his career, 6-12, to speed Notts to an easy victory. Inspired by the response from the supporters and team-mates, he went back on his decision to leave and agreed to return the following season.

Stats (for all one-day matches between Notts & Lancs)

Highest Team Total

Notts: 276-7 (Old Trafford, 1995)

Lancs: 353-7 (Old Trafford, 1995)

Highest Individual Innings:

Notts: 119* RT Robinson (Trent Bridge, 1994)

Lancs: 134 JER Gallian (Old Trafford, 1995)

Best Bowling:

Notts: 6-12 RJ Hadlee (Trent Bridge, 1980)

Lancs: 5-13 K Shuttleworth (Trent Bridge, 1972)

Played For Them Both

Australian Test match bowler Peter Siddle has played for both Nottinghamshire and Lancashire over the last twelve months.

The Victorian joined Notts last year and made his county championship debut at Lord’s, the first of eleven first class matches he appeared in for the Trent Bridge side. He picked up 37 wickets, with a best of four for 61 and scored 250 runs at an average of 22 apiece.

Siddle, currently part of his nation’s Ashes squad, played four championship matches for Lancashire at the start of the season, making a top score of 89 with the bat and collecting 18 wickets.

Others who have represented both counties include Jack Bond, Mark Crawley, Steve Elworthy, Jason Gallian, Kyle Hogg, Gary Keedy, Steven Mullaney, Oliver Newby, Ashwell Prince and Ajmal Shahzad.

Milestones

Samit Patel (4,990) needs 10 runs to reach 5,000 in one-day cricket.

Jake Ball (45) and Luke Fletcher (44) are approaching 50 wickets in one-day cricket.

Riki Wessels (99) needs one more catch to reach 100 in one-day cricket.

Tickets

For details of admission prices and all other matchday information for this fixture, please refer to the official Lancashire County Cricket Club website www.lccc.co.uk

Coverage

BBC Radio Nottingham will be providing on-line commentary on this and every Notts match throughout the season. Access the on-line coverage via the BBC Sport website or app.

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