Fresh off the back of recording Nottinghamshire’s best-ever List A bowling figures, a delighted Brett Hutton spoke of his jubilation at the Outlaws’ crushing derby-day win over Leicestershire Foxes.

Notts set their hosts 255/9 in a match reduced to 47 overs per side as Haseeb Hameed hit an unbeaten 99*, before Hutton ripped through the Foxes’ batting order to record figures of 7-26 in a 105-run victory.

“It’s a great win,” smiled Hutton. “We’ve been looking forward to these couple of games, because it essentially felt like we were in the knockout stages already.

Hutton’s rampant spell saw Leicestershire fall well short of their target, with only Wiaan Mulder, who made 79 before becoming Hutton’s seventh wicket, passing 30.

However, the right-armer was keen to stress that as happy as he was to set the record, the performance of the team outweighs everything else.

“Personal milestones are of course a great thing in cricket, but they’re always made better by a win. It’s always nice, but that win is more important.

“I’d take a team win over it being my individual day, every day, but it just happened that today was my day. It’s all about the team, and we go about things our way as Notts, and we will continue to do so.

“We’re going to carry on playing our way; we’re going to make some noise and play some music, and ultimately let our cricket do the talking. Thankfully today, we put in a good team performance.”

Hutton shared the new ball with debutant Toby Pettman, who bowled eight overs, and although he fell short of recording his maiden first-team scalp, Hutton was hugely complimentary of his teammate’s spell.

“We were all chuffed for Toby, who bowled brilliantly. His figures might not show how well he bowled, but he really did well.

“On debut, to bowl the first over, is brilliant, and that first over was excellent. It was aggressive, it had good movement and bounce, and it was beautiful.

“All the work he’s done paid off today, and he’s put his name in the hat for a lot of things moving forward now.”

In addition to Pettman, Hutton was also full of praise for his captain Hameed, whose 99* represented his second successive fifty and was one short of recording his second century in this season’s Royal London Cup.

“His performance was huge,” said Hutton. “That was something we’ve spoken about recently; we’ve put in good performances with the bat but we’ve needed that one man to go on sometimes and make a significant score.

“Hass did that today. It was unfortunate he ended on 99, but in terms of the team, he did absolutely the right thing. It was a massive contribution, and got us to a point where we thought our score really had us in the game.

“We had a lot of conversations yesterday about all of us being up for the fight and doing the right thing, so it’s great to put a win together.”

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