Report Robin Das hits first senior white-ball hundred to end Nottinghamshire hopes Jamal Richards' five-wicket haul dents Outlaws as young Essex side seal win ECB Reporters Network 11-Aug-2024 • 6 mins ago File photo: Robin Das gets down to reverse-sweep • ECB/Getty Images {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","contentUrl":"https://img1.hscicdn.
com/image/upload/f_auto/lsci/db/PICTURES/CMS/360800/360866.4.jpg","caption":"File photo: Robin Das gets down to reverse-sweep"} Essex 219 for 3 (Das 100*, Thain 83) beat Nottinghamshire 218 (Montgomery 52, Richards 5-31) by seven wickets Nottinghamshire Outlaws' hopes of reaching the knock-out phases of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup were ended when an Essex side who were already eliminated still pulled off a crushing victory by seven wickets at Trent Bridge.
Robin Das , opening and still unbeaten, posted a maiden white-ball century off the last ball of the match. The 20-year old Jamal Richards , one of five in the Essex side raised like Das in north-east London, earlier claimed 5 for 31 with wholeheated, bustling pace. His best figures in all cricket halted an Outlaws surge to 96 for 1 and later helped induce a plummet from 163 for 4 to 218 all out despite Ben Slater's 47 and 52 from South African Matt Montgomery.
Other youngsters then saw Essex maturely home as Das and Noah Thain , neither of them yet past his 23rd birthday, put on 185 for the third wicket. Das finished with 100 from 119 balls whilst the teenage Thai.