http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Leicestershire-c807 struggling to save the match against Kent
Leicestershire stretched their second innings lead to 100 against Kent in a match of the County Championship Division Two, at Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kent-c802
scored 459 runs in their first outing whereas Leicestershire managed 251 and 308/7 in both their respective innings.
Kent went off to a terrific start in the match after winning the toss and electing to bat first. The team’s opening pair, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robert-Key-c2349, scored a huge partnership of 198 runs, taking the game away from the opposition.
Denly ended up being the top scorer for his team, scoring 143 runs from 247 balls. He struck 22 fours in his classy knock and laid a solid platform for the lower-order batsmen to come.
Key and Sam Northeast also played brilliantly, but both missed out on centuries. They managed 91 and 99 runs respectively. However, the lower-order batsmen failed to capitalize on a solid start, as none of them managed to score a decent score.
Kent still managed to post a solid first innings total, as they were not troubled much by the visitors’ bowling attack. Only Wayne White was the bowler in the visitors’ team to cause a few problems for the opposition. He finished with four wickets.
In reply, the Leicestershire batsmen failed to make an impression, as they were all-out for 251. Opening batsman, Will Jefferson, played exceptionally well, scoring 77 runs for his team, but didn’t get much support from the other players.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jigar-Naik-c1694, remained unbeaten on 44 until he ran out of partners from the other end.
Kent’s bowlers, Matt http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JC-Tredwell-c1676, shared five wickets each in the innings. They didn’t allow the batsmen to settle down and dominated the innings completely.
The visitors were forced to follow on and they continued to struggle in the match. They lost four wickets for just 100 runs in their second outing. The top scorer from the first innings, Jefferson, only managed nine runs this time around.
However, the innings was held together by Leicestershire’s middle-order batsmen, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 and White, who put together 129 runs for the fifth wicket partnership. They scored 96 and 71 runs in their respective innings, but failed to carry on and make a big one
for the team.
Jigar Naik and Claude Henderson were unbeaten on 22 and 28 respectively, when the day was called off by the umpires.
Robbie Joseph picked up four wickets out of the seven to fall in the day.
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