Durham 338 for 8 (Bedingham 152, Lees 66, Hannon-Dalby 3-54) beat Warwickshire 337 for 8 (Barnard 161, Rhodes 66, Pretorius 4-50, Bushnell 3-56) by one run

Durham ended Warwickshire's one hundred pc document within the Metro Bank One-Day Cup with an exhilarating one-run win from an exquisite, run-soaked sport at Edgbaston.

Their ice-cool nerve earned Durham's third win of the group. Warwickshire, in the meantime, already by means of to the knockout section, can nonetheless e-book a house semi-final in the event that they beat Sussex at Hove on Tuesday.

Put in, Durham misplaced Michael Jones to the fifth ball when he inside-edged Hannon-Dalby to wicketkeeper Michael Burgess. Lees then gave the innings a stable platform with stands of 55 with Scott Borthwick and 67 with Bedingham.

Lees departed livid with himself when, having taken ten from successive balls from Henry Brookes, he lifted the subsequent to mid-off. Bushnell fell first ball, to a high quality leg-side catch by Burgess, and when Liam Trevaskis edged Hannon-Dalby to the keeper, Durham have been wobbling at 156 for 5.

Bedingham and Mackintosh performed with freedom and verve so as to add 116 in 92 balls. Mackintosh struck 4 fours and two sixes in his maiden List A half-century whereas Bedingham handed his earlier finest within the format (104) with a six crunched over lengthy on off Hannon-Dalby after which hit overdrive. He crashed 40 from his final ten balls, together with three successive sixes off Craig Miles.

Warwickshire quickly misplaced Rob Yates when he top-edged Pretorius to mid-off however Barnard and Rhodes added 148 in 23 overs to maintain the large house crowd .

Barnard posted his first List A ton from 106 balls however after Rhodes lifted George Drissell to lengthy off, a cluster of wickets cranked up the strain. Alex Davies spooned Pretorius to lengthy on and Jake Bethell top-edged a slog at a good-length ball from Bushnell who then had Burgess caught at brief third man.

Barnard wanted assist and Ethan Brookes equipped it completely with clever, skilful batting which little question had a couple of watching house followers questioning why on earth Warwickshire are permitting such a extremely proficient participant go away for Worcestershire on the finish of the season.

Barnard and Brookes added 85 in 53 balls and the latter departed caught at deep mid-wicket, along with his staff again in management. Forty wanted from six overs got here down to twenty from three.

When Barnard was caught at further cowl, 15 have been wanted from 13 balls. Pretorius bowled Jake Lintott in a superb over which left Warwickshire needing 9 from the final. Bushnell bowled a high quality final over of full size which denied the Bears the 2 boundaries they wanted and closed out a really memorable victory