MCC wrapped up a 174 run victory with a day to spare against Nottinghamshire despite a better second innings from the county champions who were eventually bowled out for 293 in Abu Dhabi. Paul Franks top scored with 73 but they were never in the hunt for the target after the top order was blown away.

Rahul Dravid earlier became a useful quiz question for the future as he scored the first century of the English season. He was last man out for 106 with MCC making 357 as Luke Fletcher claimed another four wicket haul.

MCC soon made inroads into Nottinghamshire despite being without Steve Kirby following his match ending foot injury. Hamid Hassan was again impressive removing Mark Wagh and Alex Hales in his opening spell, while Toby Roland Jones also claimed a brace to leave the county side in tatters on 21 for 4.

Finally, though, they put up some resistance with four batsmen passing fifty. It started as Ali

Brown (55) and Chris Read (51) added 111 for the fifth wicket until Roland Jones returned to trap Read lbw. The end looked to be nigh when Gary Keedy struck in the following over to claim his first scalp of the game when Brown departed.

But Franks and Steve Mullaney (62) put bat to ball during an entertaining seventh wicket stand of 129 which gave MCC’s bowlers harder work. Keedy and Mohammad Nabi, the Afghanistan allrounder, were given lengthy spells to rest the quicks and it was Keedy who broke through to end Mullaney’s effort.

Nabi then enjoyed some late success with the wickets of Fletcher and Brett Hutton before the final man, Franks, fell to the deserving Hassan as he completed a match haul of seven wickets.

The significance of this game is the continuing trial of the pink ball. Listening to Chris Read’s comments yesterday he was saying that the new ball at twilight was moving about significantly and was almost unplayable for a spell. This is borne out by the uneven nature of the scorecard with the top orders struggling and the lower order thriving. However tempting the idea of day/night Tests, we need to make sure that everything is right before such a radical innovation and on the evidence so far there are still problems with the pink ball.

I am really happy the way these two Afghan guys played at MCC among International players, importantly we have to thank MCC organisers and managers who gave them the apportunity to play and shine thier talent. Me as an Afghan and cricket fan would like to request Dravid, to recommend some Afghan players in IPL auction, they can be proved very handy.

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