Durham leading four-day match against Middlesex – Cricket news
In the ongoing County Championship Division One four-day match between Durham and Middlesex, the former have secured a lead by 152 runs with nine wickets remaining by the end of the third-day of play at Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street.
After scoring 37 runs in their second innings without any loss at stumps on the second day of play, Durham looked destined to pile a lot more on the third day.
However, due to unfavourable weather the innings was cut short with Middlesex managing to take only one wicket in the day which was of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Burnell-Harris-c65517 after hammering a beautifully crafted half century. At
the time of this wicket, Durham were on 68 runs.
Later, with Keaton Jennings (28) and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scott-Borthwick-c2466 (11) unbeaten, Durham ended the day with 89 runs on the board.
The match is equally balanced and could still go either way if the weather allows a full day’s play tomorrow.
Middlesex had it wrong right from the start when they chose to field after winning the toss on the opening day. While they got their first wicket with only seven runs on the board, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782’s second-wicket partnership between Jennings and Borthwick outplayed
the Middlesex bowlers, who were smacked all around the park and were left clueless as to what was going on.
This partnership took the score to 108, before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gareth-Berg-c1457 made inroads by grabbing the wicket of Borthwick, who faltered with a score of 52 runs to his name.
However, later down the order http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Phil-Mustard-c2183 hammered an inspiring knock of 62 runs to help his side finish the innings with something to fight for.
From http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Corey-Collymore-c1283, was their best performer with four wickets to his name.
However, they had a terrible start to their first innings as their top-order was annihilated against an outstanding bowling attack with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Onions-c1449 doing most of the damage.
With the top five batsmen back in the pavilion, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Simpson-c1722 clobbered 42 runs before their side crumbled on 196.
Onions was the obvious difference between the two sides with his five-wicket haul.
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