| LV= County Championship Division Two, Seat Distinctive Riverside (day 4) |
| Durham 457-8 dec: Bedingham 156, Clark 119; Scriven 4-81 |
| Leicestershire 143: Raine 5-51 & 173: Davis 58; Parkinson 3-27, Fernando 3-40 |
| Durham (24 pts) beat Leicestershire (2 pts) by an innings and 141 runs |
| Match scorecard |
Durham sealed an emphatic victory over Leicestershire by an innings and 141 runs, guaranteeing County Championship Division Two champions ended their magnificent marketing campaign on the very best of notes at Seat Distinctive Riverside.
The house aspect required 10 wickets to safe their seventh victory of the marketing campaign, and so they wanted solely 42.5 overs to tear by means of the Leicestershire batting line-up.
The Durham bowlers shared the wickets across the assault as Vishwa Fernando and Matt Parkinson claimed three wickets apiece, whereas Matthew Potts, Ben Raine and Jonathan Bushnell additionally struck.
The Foxes briefly held up the Durham cost within the afternoon session as Will Davis scored his maiden first-class fifty in a stand value 78 with Ben Cox.
However the hosts closed out a particular season with a dominant win, taking 24 factors from the competition and ending with a mammoth complete of 233.
Leicestershire resumed the ultimate day 13 with out loss, requiring one other 301 runs to pressure the house aspect to bat once more.
Rishi Patel added solely six runs to his in a single day complete earlier than he fended a rising supply from Potts to Ollie Robinson earlier than Sam Evans picked out Matt Parkinson at tremendous leg handing the England seamer inroads into the Foxes’ line-up.
Raine saved up the depth on the different finish and handed the skin edge earlier than he lastly prised out Umar Amin, who missed a straight one and misplaced his off-stump. The strike was Raine’s sixtieth of the marketing campaign, a brand new career-best for a single season for the 32-year-old.
Fernando discovered his rhythm to wrap the pads of Louis Kimber on three events. After having a very good lbw shout turned down, he returned together with his subsequent supply to bowl the right-hander with a magnificence. Fernando then skittled Lewis Hill to pave the best way into the Leicestershire tail inside 90 minutes.
Within the last sport of his mortgage spell, Parkinson got here into the assault and struck twice in his first over. Tom Scriven paid the value for his aggressive method advancing down the monitor and was stumped by Robinson earlier than Parkinson turned one by means of Chris Wright’s gate to place Durham on the brink.
Nonetheless, Leicestershire confirmed resolve after lunch. Davis displayed resilience with the bat to tackle Potts and firm, scoring his maiden first-class fifty from 58 balls, together with six fours and a six.
He shared a stand value 78 for the ninth wicket earlier than Fernando returned with one other rocket to uproot his off-stump for 58. The Sri Lanka worldwide ended the sport with figures of 7-80.
The tip got here shortly as Parkinson claimed his third wicket by discovering Hull’s outdoors edge to bowl out Leicestershire for 173, capping a dominant efficiency from the hosts.
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