Ben Raine reigns earlier than Storm Agnes rains on Durham’s victory parade

Leicestershire 96 for six (Raine 4-44) path Durham 457 for 8 dec (Bedingham 156, Clark 119, Borthwick 63) by 361 runs

Durham pushed the tempo early seeking to safe most batting factors and declare with Storm Agnes threatening to wreck prospects of play within the afternoon and, after resuming on 409 for five, Bedingham moved to 1000 first-class runs for the season.

He then went to 150 within the recreation with a six and an all-run 4 as Durham appeared to speed up in the direction of a declaration.

Jonathan Bushnell and Paul Coughlin have been out slogging as Durham declared on 457 for 8, earlier than Raine and Fernando took over with the ball.

Raine dismissed the highest 4 within the hour earlier than lunch, Fernando choosing up his first two wickets for Durham earlier than rain arrived at 1.45pm, earlier than play was finally referred to as for the day at 3.40pm.

Durham continued their championship celebrations on day two with Bedingham steering them to a place of nice power with superb pictures as he raced to his milestones.

Bushnell tried to comply with swimsuit however skied Hull to Sam Evans at cowl for 19 earlier than Tom Scriven cleaned up Bedingham for an excellent 156 as Leicestershire picked up their second bowling level.

Paul Coughlin and Raine noticed Durham to most batting factors for the eighth time this season earlier than Coughlin’s wicket introduced the declaration, leaving Leicestershire simply over an hour to bat earlier than lunch.

They made a gradual however regular begin till Ben Raine bought into his groove, eradicating Rishi Patel’s off stump, earlier than bowling Sam Evans, pinning Umar Amin and Louis Kimber lbw first ball in the identical over in a exceptional spell of bowling because the clouds and lights got here into play.

Leicestershire returned after lunch to gray clouds and full lights illuminating the bottom because the hosts zoned in on the stumps.

Fernando picked up his maiden wicket in Durham colors as Harry Swindells chopped on to the Sri Lankan worldwide to depart Leicestershire in actual hassle at 74 for five. He then picked up Lewis Hill lbw three balls later for 25 because the wickets continued to tumble.

Scriven and Ben Cox began to indicate indicators of a mini partnership, flashing pictures away to the boundary as they tried to tug Leicestershire out of a gap that appeared to solely get deeper with each passing ball.

The rain that threatened to wipe out a lot of the afternoon began to reach at 1.45pm and the umpires took the gamers from the sector 5 minutes later, to not return for the rest of the day.