Connor Marshall took 3-35 from 13 overs and struck 43 from number eight but his all-round efforts couldn’t stop the Nottinghamshire Academy falling to a 31-run defeat at the hands of Caythorpe.
After their victory over Mansfield Hosiery Mills at the weekend, the Academy had picked up their third victory in the previous four games and were looking to continue that run with their trip to Caythorpe.
Ben Kitt, one of the stand out performers for the Academy in 2016, took four of the first five wickets to fall, as the hosts fell to 108-5.
Marshall and Liam Patterson-White (2-36) then took the duties of cleaning up the tail but Hasnain Nasir (30) and Caythorpe Captain James Hemmings (31) lifted the hosts up to 206 all out.
The Academy’s innings followed a much similar pattern to that of Caythorpe’s, the visitors falling to 87-6 after Tim Wyatt was dismissed for 40.
Paul Franks, who hit an unbeaten 78* in the victory over Mansfield Hosiery Mills on Saturday, once again salvaged the innings alongside Marshall.
The Academy Captain struck 37 whilst Marshall added 43 to his Saturday score of 47*, as they shared a 68-run seventh-wicket stand.
However, when Franks and Marshall were dismissed by Matthew Dowman and Hishaam Khan respectively, Caythorpe ran through the tail to take a 31-run victory and leapfrog the Academy in the process.
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