Brutal half-centuries smashed as Nottinghamshire Outlaws coasted into the Vitality Blast semi-finals at Trent Bridge with a resounding Success over Middlesex.
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This week, hales, who signed up a new contract, flayed the Middlesex attack as he also Nash shared a gigantic unbroken partnership of 165.
Nash, making his first Blast look of this season, finished with 74 from 53 balls as Nottinghamshire clinched the win with 3.4 overs to spare and booked their third Finals Day place in four years.
That outcome never looked at all later Middlesex had set his own hosts a below-par target of 161, from 31 balls by England one-day captain Eoin Morgan despite the impressive bang of 53.
The Outlaws put Middlesex in and strangled their innings from the beginning, with off-spinner Matt Carter (2-16) accounting for receivers Paul Stirling (11) and Dawid Malan (two ) in the same .
Pakistan left-armer Imad Wasim (2-31) inflicted a second double blow to the visitors with two wickets in as many deliveries – one of the prize scalp of AB de Villiers (11), that grabbed him into the hands of deep midwicket.
John Simpson raised the pace with 25 out of 21 balls and, once he’d holed off Samit Patel, it had been down to Toby Roland-Jones (26 out of 19) to maintain Morgan business as the pair included 58 at 33 deliveries.
Morgan brought up his half-century by clipping Harry Gurney for six on the leg side, but he sliced the ball that was next and also the Middlesex innings petered out as they clambered into 160-8.
Hales got Nottinghamshire off to a flying start in pursuit of the goal, swinging Mujeeb Ur-Rahman for six and four from successive chunks, because he hammered on 14 off Tom Helm’s first over and Nash soon joined in.
Middlesex’s bowlers were unable to stem the flow of runs, even together with the Outlaws and 50 passing over – when both batsmen were put off skiers at on, and they fluffed their chance of a breakthrough.
Nash was first to his half-century from 30 balls, with Hales taking four deliveries to follow suit when Stevie Eskinazi spilled a catch in the deep off Roland-Jones, and he had been given yet another lifetime on 57.
Hales finished off event from the 17th finished with his eighth six to the stands.
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