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NTU 141-5, UoN 143-6

Cricket post-match interview:

The University of Nottingham rounded off a victorious Varsity series on Friday with a win in the cricket at Clifton Campus.

A beautiful sunny day helped to attract a healthy crowd of 700-800 people as Trent batted first. The home side started brightly, and it took until the 16th over for Uni of to take their second wicket. That however was the beginning of a late flurry of wickets as NTU went from 119/1 to a final score of 141/5.

UoN lost batsmen more quickly than their hosts, finding themselves 59/3 at one point, but always maintained a satisfactory run-rate to reach their attainable target of 142 with 3 overs to spare.

Venue: Clifton Campus
Date: Friday 5th June 2015 (13:00)

Cricket pre-match interview:

Cricket is the final sport of this year’s Varsity series.

It’s a fact that can only remind you of last year, for which cricket was the last event too. The Varsity series was level at 7-7 heading into the fixture, meaning that it would determine the outcome of the whole series. In a turn of events that you literally could and probably would script, that series outcome ended up going down to the final ball. Fortunately, the University of Nottingham prevented Trent from scoring a boundary on that ball, and thus UoN took the 2014 series 8-7, as well as a 6-4 lead in the all-time series.

The cricket team member Ashley Merritt, who fielded that famous last ball in 2014, doesn’t expect this year’s event to go down to the wire in such dramatic fashion.

“I honestly don’t think it will be as close,” he told URN.

“I’ve only played against Trent twice, and the two times I’ve played against them we’ve won and we haven’t had major problems.

“In Varsity last year we didn’t play well at all.

“I think this year with the talent we’ve managed to develop in our squad, with a couple of the incoming players, I honestly would back us to beat them.”