Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire: Scores & match report

Match scores (New Road)

Worcestershire win by 5 wickets (D/L Method) 

Nottinghamshire inns (50 overs): 273-6 (Lumb 104, Root 46; Leach 3-50)

Worcestershire inns (20 overs): 169-5 (Whiteley 41 no, Clarke 40; Ball 2-42)

March report

Worcestershire opened their Royal London One-Day Cup campaign with a five-wicket Duckworth/Lewis-win over Nottinghamshire Outlaws at New Road.

The Outlaws compiled 273 for six thanks to Michael Lumb's eighth limited-overs century, 104 from 126 balls (eight fours, three sixes).

After a series of showers left Worcestershire with a revised target of 168 in 22 overs, they passed it with 12 balls to spare.

Twenty-year-old Joe Clarke set up the chase with a classy 40 (26 balls) before Ross Whiteley (41 not out) saw it spectacularly through.

The Outlaws' innings had started brightly with 37 from 8.3 overs before Alex Hales fell lbw to Joe Leach to the last ball before the players went off for rain. After a short interruption, Rikki Wessels chipped Ed Barnard to deep mid-wicket but Lumb batted responsibly to shore the innings up with support from Samit Patel and Billy Root.

Lumb and Patel added 65 in 12 overs before the latter, having looked in excellent form for 46 from 42 balls, holed out to Moeen Ali. After Brendan Taylor missed a slog and was stumped by yards, Root settled quickly and made an impressive 46 from 42 balls on his limited-overs debut in a stand of 84 in 13 overs with Lumb.

Lumb finally fell to a brilliant catch by wicketkeeper Ben Cox (his 50th dismissal in limited-overs cricket) from an edge off Leach. The Worcestershire captain led the wicket-taking with three for 50 but will have been disappointed with his side delivering nine wides, giving the Outlaws more than an extra over's batting.

The Rapids' reply started briskly with 19 runs, including four fours in the first two overs, but then Jake Ball dismissed both openers in three balls. Tom Kohler-Cadmore sought six over the leg-side but found only Root at deep mid-wicket before Ali attached a good-length ball and sent it straight to Stuart Broad at mid-off.

Clarke and Brett D'Oliviera defied deepening gloom to add 60 in eight overs with the former executing a couple of sublime ramp-shots off the pacemen, before both fell in quick succession. Clarke drove Luke Fletcher to cover and D'Oliviera was bowled by fellow spinner Patel.

That brought together two new batsmen - Whiteley and Ben Cox - in poor light but they responded by compiling a partnership of 49 in 22 balls, and Whiteley's clean hitting proved the decisive factor in a compelling spectacle.