{"id":204030,"date":"2025-06-22T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204030\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:26:16","slug":"confidence-high-as-championship-returns-says-pennington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204030\/","title":{"rendered":"CONFIDENCE HIGH AS CHAMPIONSHIP RETURNS, SAYS PENNINGTON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>Dillon Pennington is raring to go ahead of the return of Rothesay County Championship action to Trent Bridge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notts ended the first block of Vitality Blast action on a high with a 24-run win away to Northants Steelbacks, and now host Yorkshire for the return of the red ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the format, so it\u2019s exciting for me,\u201d said Pennington, who has been included in a 14-strong squad for the visit of the White Rose.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750521786_yorkshire-h-championship-squad-jpg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a month of having blokes try to haul you around the park, it\u2019s good!\u201d he continued with a smile. \u201cI think we\u2019re on a really good run, and confidence is high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Green and Golds come into the eighth round of the Championship leading Division One by ten points from defending champions Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Pennington is therefore happy to state that confidence is naturally high, and it is only increased by the recent arrival of Indian all-formats international wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had our preview breakfast this morning, and everyone\u2019s up and raring to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a good group. Ishan has obviously come in too, which is exciting &#8211; he\u2019s a really good guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ishan will deputise for Kyle Verreynne while the World Test Championship-winning South African is on international duty for a two-Test series against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>He enters a group that has put on strong showings so far, but Pennington knows that must continue to earn a positive result against Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all looking forward to getting back out there for the Championship,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Yorkshire] look like they\u2019ve got a good side on paper, so that makes it an exciting challenge going into the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe beat them last time we played them at Headingley before the Blast, so we\u2019re all hopeful we can do the same here from tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Pennington claimed a five-wicket haul on the last occasion of the sides meeting in the First-Class arena, at Headingley in the last round before the Championship made way for the Blast.<\/p>\n<p>However, the seamer said he pays little attention to performances past, and, with a wry smile, gave short shrift to the suggestion that it will have an effect a month on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClean slate, go again!\u201d he chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>*******<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.trentbridge.co.uk\/selection\/event\/date?productId=10228710509278&amp;gtmStepTracking=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1749839382_wit20-engvind-banner-fb.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Pennington is raring to go ahead of the return of Rothesay County Championship action to Trent Bridge.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1401,1406,1404,1403,1407,79,1400,1402,16,15,1405],"class_list":{"0":"post-204030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-bridge","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-nottingham","11":"tag-nottinghamshire","12":"tag-outlaws","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-trent","15":"tag-trentbridge","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-west-bridgford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114724653338922303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}