County Championship Division 2- Leicestershire v Essex – Essex complete resounding victory
On the fourth day, Essex completed a resounding victory over their opponents Leicestershire by 254 runs, in a match of the County Championship Division 2, played at the Grace Road, Leicester on July 13, 2011.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/OA-Shah-c2134 completed his century.
In reply, the host never seemed to get going as wickets fell regularly before Leicester were bundled out for a meager 138 runs, handing the visitors a comprehensive victory.
The day started with Shah bringing up a well-deserved century, hitting Leicester bowler Claude Henderson for a huge six.
The visitor took the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jigar-Naik-c1694, who took his tally of wickets to 4 in the innings. After that Essex quickly declared, with Shah and Essex captain, James Foster, remained unbeaten on 112 and 7 respectively.
Set a target of 393, Leicestershire started with a worst possible manner as opener, Will Jefferson, went on the first delivery of their second innings, by David Master. From that point onwards, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Leicestershire-c807 never looked comfortable as they continued to
lose wickets at an alarming rate.
The next to go was Greg Smith for 13 who were caught by Godleman off the bowling off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Maurice-Chambers-c1934.
When http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RS-Bopara-c2373, he was quickly followed by the innings top scorer Mathew Boyce (26) on the same score, Leicester was reeling at 56-4.
The bowling onslaught did not stop here as Tymal http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tom-New-c2702 (0), followed by cleaning up of Wayne White for 12, to restrict the Leicester to 91-6.
After good looking 25 from Jiger http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naik-c78500, he was bowled by Tom Craddock, who added another to his name, when he cleaned up Claude Henderson for 4.
Andre McDonald also contributed a valuable 25 but after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harry-Frederick-Gurney-c61806 could not take part in the match.
This meant that Leicester could only manage 138 in their second innings, leaving Essex to celebrate an emphatic victory.
All bowlers for the visiting team bowled tightly as all chipped in with wickets at regular intervals. The pick of the lot being Tymal Mills who took three crucial scalps.
Craddock took 2 victims, while there were wickets each for Masters, Chambers, Bopara and Ten Doeschate.
The result meant that Essex have revived their chances of promotion. However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 with their victory is still right behind them.
As for Leicestershire, there woes continue as they languish at the bottom of the points table in division 2.
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