Leicestershire 174 for 4 (Patel 104, Hill 54) beat Durham 172 for 4 (Turner 60*) by six wickets

It was Durham's second defeat by Leicestershire in six days though the Foxes stay backside of the North Group desk, having misplaced their different six video games.

Asked to bat first, Durham posted 59 for two from the opening block of six, 35 of these runs coming in two overs after the guests went exhausting in opposition to the 2 new faces within the Foxes assault, with Matt Salisbury and Tom Scriven drafted in for his or her county Blast debuts after accidents to Mikey Finan and Will Davis in addition to Afghan worldwide Naveen.

Salisbury, who didn't play within the Blast throughout his 4 years at Durham however made eight appearances for Essex in 2014, took a wicket together with his fifth ball in opposition to his ex-team-mates when Alex Lees swung optimistically and was bowled, however took some punishment in his second over as Clark and Michael Jones plundered 17 runs, the pair having taken 18 off Scriven within the earlier over, though Clark survived a troublesome likelihood to level on 4.

Hull completed the powerplay properly for the Foxes as Jones miscued to mid-on and when left-arm spinner Parkinson produced a positive, full supply to lure Clark within the crease within the subsequent over, Durham had been 61 for 3. At midway, with Colin Ackermann and Rehan Ahmed making use of the squeeze, they had been 80 for 3, advancing to 112 for 4 from 15 overs after Parkinson made one other large breakthrough, bowling Robinson to register his a centesimal Blast wicket for the county.

The Foxes would have been dissatisfied to not declare extra wickets within the final 5, which noticed Turner and Bas de Leede swell the full by 62 runs, each clearing the ropes of Rehan's legspin, however Hull, the 18-year-old left-arm fast of whom they've excessive hopes, produced a powerful last over costing simply eight runs to complete with 1 for 26.

Needing to attain at 8.65 runs per over, the house facet suffered a right away setback, dropping Nick Welch to the fifth ball of their reply as he missed an tried sweep in opposition to left-arm spinner Liam Trevaskis, however recovered properly, with Hill pulling and scooping profitably and Patel hitting powerfully down the bottom, to be 69 for 1 from six, though the latter had an escape when Ben Raine dropped what ought to have been a simple likelihood at vast long-on.

Back-to-back boundaries off Turner took Patel to a 21-ball half-century and two extra off legspinner Nathan Sowter's subsequent over introduced the goal right down to 70 with 70 balls remaining.

And there was no holding the Foxes again on this event with Patel in harmful temper, needing simply 24 extra balls to achieve his hundred, getting there his second six in three balls over vast long-on off Sowter, and though all of it ended anticlimactically within the subsequent over as an ill-advised resolution to go for a second run to de Leede at midwicket off Wayne Parnell noticed him run out.

Nonetheless, the house facet went into the ultimate 5 overs needing simply 21 to win and although Parnell dismissed Colin Ackermann, who chopped on, and Louis Kimber, caught behind, with consecutive balls, to induce just a little nervousness within the house crowd, solely 14 extra had been wanted, Hill ending the job by pulling Sowter for his third six earlier than driving the identical bowler via additional cowl for 4 subsequent ball.