County Championship Division Two match between Leicestershire and Northamptonshire headed towards a draw
The match between Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, of the County Championship Division Two, at the County Ground Northampton in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 seems to be headed towards a draw.
The visitors have a 53-run lead with 10 wickets in hand, as they ended the third day’s play on 52 without a loss on Thursday, May 26, 2011. With only one day of play left, it is hard to get a result out of this game.
The visitors managed 313 in their first innings after winning the toss and electing to bat first on a good batting pitch.
However, the things didn’t turn out to be ideal for Leicestershire, but the day was saved for the team, courtesy a brilliant ton by Australia’s, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Barry-McDonald-c44289.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Andrew-Golding-Boyce-c75105, collected 36 runs before he was sent back to the pavilion and things started to get worse for the visitors.
However, McDonald was in devastating form, as he smashed the opposition bowlers to all parts of the park.
The flamboyant right-handed batsman pounded 26 fours and two massive sixes, collecting 164 runs in the innings. These runs came off just 140 deliveries and set the match up for Leicestershire.
There was some support for McDonald from the lower-order batsmen as well, as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wayne-Andrew-White-c96336 scored 47 runs for the team during a century stand with the Aussie all-rounder.
A cameo innings of 23 runs from South Africa’s, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Claude-William-Henderson-c51164, helped the team get past 300 and ended up with 313.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Lucas-c1332 took three wickets.
In reply to the first innings total of Leicestershire, the home team managed almost the same amount of runs in their first outing. Northamptonshire collected 312 runs before getting all-out and didn’t allow the opposition to take a significant lead.
The team was in a spot of bother after losing some quick wickets at the top of the order, but middle-order batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 of
it.
Apart from Wakely’s innings, there was no other batsman in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chaminda-Vaas-c1223, who ended up with 46.
McDonald, who was the hero with the bat for his team, did a terrific job with the ball as well, taking three wickets in the innings.
There were a few overs left before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Close-c51347 of play on third day and the visitors survived them.
Openers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/William-Ingleby-Jefferson-c97368 and Boyce, were unbeaten on 15 and 36 respectively, guiding the team’s total to 52, with an overall lead of 53.
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