Donald inspires Derbyshire Falcons to win over Notts Outlaws

Donald hit eight sixes in his 84 from 31 balls and Martin Andersson followed up his half century and six wickets at Leicester on Wednesday with five sixes in an unbeaten 69 off 43.

The Falcons raced to 234 for 4, their highest T20 score, with 16 sixes in the innings another Derbyshire record.

On a night of batting pyrotechnics,Tom Moores gave the Outlaws hope with seven sixes in an unbeaten 75 from 34 balls and Jack Haynes scored 45 off 26, but they came up short on 211 for 6.

Donald said: "It was good to put on a display in front of a packed house. We've looked really good in the last few games.

"We rode our luck a bit but fortune favours the brave in T20 and it certainly fell our way but once we got going it felt like we were pretty hard to stop.

"That's the way we're trying to set up, to get ahead of the game, give ourselves a chance. There's a balance to be found but we thought that was the best way of doing it tonight and it certainly paid off.

"We were looking at the average scores and they're getting up to 200 plus so we know we need to keep our foot down and that's certainly my job, I'm no good for anyone trying to knock it around so I'm going to keep going but hopefully I'll last a bit longer soon."

Notts Outlaws assistant head coach Paul Franks admitted his side had been well beaten: "It's always a game we look forward to and it creates its own opportunities but we've been well beaten and we have to say that.

"There was some good stuff at times from us but the match defining performance came from Anuerin Donald, that's a fantastically aggressive innings from him, but it's a really difficult defeat to take and everybody in there is feeling that right now.

"We have to use this as fuel moving forward. the rivalry is what it is and we've had more than our fair share of good times in this and today is a tough day.”