Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire: Scores & match report

Match scores (Market Warsop)

Nottinghamshire won by 6 wickets 

Leicestershire inns: 217 (43.5/50 overs. Cosgrove 80, Pettini 39, Hill 30; Pattinson 4-42, Gurney 3-29, Broad 2-48)

Nottinghamshire inns:  218/4 (38.2/50 overs. Patel 79, Taylor 51*, Mullaney 50; Chappell 2-44)

Match report

Notts Outlaws boosted their hopes of qualifying for the Royal London One-Day Cup knockout stages with a six-wicket win over Leicestershire Foxes at Welbeck.

James Pattinson took four for 42 as the Foxes were bundled out for 217 in only 43.5 overs after being asked to bat first.

Mark Cosgrove, with 80, played the only innings of any substance for the visitors but when he fell the visitors lost their way and slipped from 179 for four to 194 for nine.

Samit Patel led the run chase by speeding to 79 from 60 balls and it was left to a fourth-wicket stand of 80 between Brendan Taylor and Steven Mullaney, who both made half-centuries, to take Notts to the finishing line.

In cold, blustery conditions, Cosgrove arrived at the crease in the seventh over of the morning after Luke Fletcher and Harry Gurney had reduced the visitors to 18 for two.

Cameron Delport crashed two early drives into the stumps at the non-strikers end and though his luck appeared to be changing when he top-edged a delivery from Gurney high over third man for the only six of the innings, he made only eight before giving keeper Chris Read one of his three catches.

Mark Pettini made 39, sharing in a third-wicket stand of 65 with Cosgrove before becoming Pattinson's first wicket. The Australian then spent most of the next hour trying to keep warm on the boundary edge before returning to blow the middle and lower order apart with three wickets in four balls.

Both Lewis Hill, who made a breezy 30, and Rob Sayer, who fell first ball, were trapped lbw and Tom Wells was then yorked for just three.

Pattinson also thudded a thunderbolt onto the boot of Zak Chappell, who was still hobbling when he tamely fell to Gurney at the other end.

Cosgrove, who is yet to score a one-day hundred in England, seemed about to correct that anomaly but was undone by Gurney and ballooned the ball to Patel in the covers.

Gurney finished with three for 29 and Stuart Broad claimed two for 48, finishing the innings by bowling skipper Clint McKay for 14.

The Notts innings got off to the worst possible start as Chappell trapped Michael Lumb lbw first ball but Patel made the most of his early arrival in the middle to race to an impressive 50, which included 10 boundaries in only 30 balls.

Riki Wessels, having made 85 not out and 114 in the last two years at Welbeck, managed only 20 before nicking Wells behind but the home side overcame his loss with another punishing stand.

Patel and Taylor put on 58 in 10 overs to take the game completely away from the Foxes. Patel, who had hit 14 fours in his punishing innings, tossed away the chance of a century by hitting Chappell to substitute fielder Jamie Sykes on the point boundary.

Mullaney hit both Wells and Aadil Ali for sixes as he raced to his second fifty in consecutive matches, getting there from only 42 deliveries, but almost immediately hoisted Ali to deep midwicket.

Taylor was unbeaten on 51 as Billy Root stroked the winning run with 70 balls to spare and the win moves Notts on to six points, ahead of the Foxes in third place in the North Group.