`Gutted´ Luke Fletcher 落ちるs just short of maiden century

Luke Fletcher was “gutted” after a calamitous run-out cost him a maiden first-class hundred.

Fletcher’s agony was (疑いを)晴らす as he was run out for 92 ? a career-best 得点する/非難する/20 that helped his Nottinghamshire 味方する take 支配(する)/統制する at Durham.

The nightwatchman’s eighth-wicket stand of 108 with James Pattinson helped to take the 訪問者s to 305, a lead of 143, and in a 47-over final 開会/開廷/会期 Durham 回復するd from 24 for three to の近くに on 162 for five.

Luke Fletcher (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Luke Fletcher (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Fletcher never looked like getting out as he equalled the career-best 得点する/非難する/20 he made away to Hampshire in 2009. He manoeuvred his stocky でっちあげる,人を罪に陥れる solidly into line to 封鎖する the good b alls, 避けるd the short ones ーするつもりであるd to unsettle him, and drove with an 当局 which belied his first-class 普通の/平均(する) of 14.46.

His 153-ball innings cruelly ended after he slipped when trying to turn 支援する from halfway 負かす/撃墜する the pitch.

Had he not also dropped his bat he would have 回復するd his ground at the 非,不,無-striker’s end.

“To get to 92 was brilliant and it put us in a strong position,” he said. “But I was gutted to get out the way I did. I felt really comfortable all day and just 手配中の,お尋ね者 to be 患者 once I got to 90 and started to think about a century.”

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