Head Coach Peter Moores is thrilled to have guided the Notts Outlaws to a white ball tournament double in his first season fully at the helm.

The former Sussex and Lancashire man had never previously won a domestic one-day trophy as coach going into this season.

Now he has helped secure two in the space of as many months after early July’s Royal London One-Day Cup final victory at Lord’s was followed by yesterday’s NatWest T20 Blast success at Edgbaston.

“A lot of it comes from team spirit with a good group of blokes.”

After topping the North Group and easing through a quarter-final against Somerset, the Outlaws underlined why they were bookies favourites with clinical victories over Hampshire in the semi-final and Birmingham Bears in the final.

It was the Club's first T20 trophy win since the competition was introduced in 2003.

“You don’t really imagine you’re going to have a season when you win both one-dayers” said Moores. “You target them, of course you do, and when we started the season, the real focus was on trying to get promoted out of the Second Division.

“For the one-day trophies, we knew we had a good side so we were going to go hard at it and credit to the lads, who have worked really hard.

“We have probably hit more balls than anyone else, we’ve done loads of work, and somewhere along the line we have found this way of someone delivering when it counts in pretty much all forms of the game.”

Notts lost their first two matches in this year’s Blast – the second of them when to the Bears when Luke Fletcher was struck on the head by Sam Hain’s shot, an injury that has forced him out for the rest of the season.

They also had to contend with Michael Lumb’s sudden retirement and Greg Smith’s decision to pursue an alternative career outside of cricket, as well as the return of Jimmy Pattinson to Australia and Stuart Broad to the England fold.

But overseas skipper Dan Christian and leg-spinner Ish Sodhi have fitted into the squad seamlessly, with Moores adding: “A lot of it comes from team spirit with a good group of blokes and the support staff around. And we try and have fun.

“Somebody has found a way of stepping up at the right time.”

“It was here (Edgbaston) that Fletch got hit and we had players in tears and all sorts of things. It was a really horrible day.

“Our bowlers were struggling early on because it’s been a really tough place to bowl at Trent Bridge and we had to jiggle things around a bit and the shape of the team.

“But credit to the players because they kept talking about it and no-one shied away from it and the bowlers got better because of the challenges of bowling on flat pitches.

“We kept saying we hoped we would save our best performances for the knock-outs – and we probably have. Somebody has found a way of stepping up at the right time.”