Leicestershire CC2, 13-16 April, Grace Road
By Scorecards
April 18 2005
Durham's opening game of the season, against Leicestershire at Grace Road. Both teams have new captains and will be keen to get off to a good start. Durham have the rare benefit of Steve Harmison and Paul Collingwood.
| Durham 1st innings | Runs | Mins | Balls | 4s | 6s | |
| MEK Hussey (c) | c Habib b Masters | 253 | 591 | 426 | 33 | 3 |
| JJB Lewis | c Nixon b Maddy | 50 | 125 | 102 | 7 | 0 |
| PD Collingwood | c Ackerman b Gibson | 18 | 77 | 73 | 2 | 0 |
| GJ Muchall | run out | 82 | 159 | 145 | 9 | 0 |
| DM Benkenstein | lbw b Gibson | 16 | 45 | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| N Peng | lbw b Masters | 39 | 121 | 103 | 6 | 0 |
| GR Breese | lbw b Gibson | 10 | 37 | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| P Mustard (wk) | st Nixon b Snape | 28 | 39 | 36 | 1 | 2 |
| LE Plunkett | not out | 11 | 25 | 23 | 1 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 8, nb 8) | 16 | ||||
| Total | (8 wickets declared, 161 overs) | 523 | ||||
Did not bat:
SJ Harmison, M Davies.
Fall of Wickets:
1-93 (Lewis), 2-148 (Collingwood), 3-314 (Muchall),
4-343 (Benkenstein), 5-446 (Peng), 6-479 (Breese),
7-491 (Hussey), 8-523 (Mustard).
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Gibson | 44 | 10 | 121 | 3 |
| DeFreitas | 25 | 8 | 84 | 0 |
| Masters | 33 | 9 | 117 | 2 |
| Maddy | 16 | 4 | 59 | 1 |
| Henderson | 34 | 5 | 104 | 0 |
| Snape | 8 | 1 | 23 | 1 |
| Maunders | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Leicestershire 1st innings | Runs | Mins | Balls | 4s | 6s | |
| DDJ Robinson | c Collingwood b Plunkett | 14 | 37 | 27 | 1 | 0 |
| DL Maddy | c Benkenstein b Plunkett | 10 | 28 | 23 | 2 | 0 |
| A Habib | run out | 15 | 72 | 41 | 2 | 0 |
| JK Maunders | lbw b Plunkett | 4 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| HD Ackerman (c) | lbw b Plunkett | 7 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| JN Snape | b Davies | 19 | 38 | 30 | 3 | 0 |
| PA Nixon (wk) | not out | 17 | 63 | 47 | 1 | 0 |
| OD Gibson | run out | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| PAJ DeFreitas | c Hussey b Collingwood | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| DD Masters | c Breese b Davies | 1 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| CW Henderson | c Benkenstein b Plunkett | 22 | 33 | 29 | 3 | 0 |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 5, nb 4) | 14 | ||||
| Total | (all out, 39 overs) | 123 | ||||
Fall of Wickets:
1-28 (Maddy), 2-35 (Robinson), 3-41 (Maunders),
4-49 (Ackerman), 5-75 (Snape), 6-75 (Habib), 7-80 (Gibson),
8-81 (DeFreitas), 9-88 (Masters), 10-123 (Henderson).
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Harmison | 11 | 0 | 36 | 0 |
| Plunkett | 14 | 1 | 43 | 5 |
| Collingwood | 6 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
| Davies | 8 | 4 | 19 | 2 |
| Leicestershire 2nd innings (following on) | Runs | Mins | Balls | 4s | 6s | |
| DDJ Robinson | c Hussey b Plunkett | 19 | 65 | 44 | 3 | 0 |
| DL Maddy | c Collingwood b Plunkett | 2 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| A Habib | b Harmison | 8 | 23 | 21 | 1 | 0 |
| JK Maunders | c Hussey b Benkenstein | 50 | 161 | 133 | 6 | 0 |
| HD Ackerman (c) | lbw b Davies | 19 | 61 | 43 | 4 | 0 |
| JN Snape | c Benkenstein b Harmison | 23 | 70 | 50 | 2 | 0 |
| PA Nixon (wk) | c Mustard b Davies | 32 | 93 | 84 | 4 | 0 |
| OD Gibson | b Harmison | 0 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| PAJ DeFreitas | b Harmison | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| DD Masters | lbw b Plunkett | 19 | 75 | 53 | 2 | 0 |
| CW Henderson | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 1, w 2, nb 4) | 12 | ||||
| Total | (all out, 75.3 overs) | 184 | ||||
Fall of Wickets:
1-10 (Maddy), 2-25 (Habib), 3-38 (Robinson),
4-74 (Ackerman), 5-130 (Snape), 6-130 (Maunders),
7-131 (Gibson), 8-131 (DeFreitas), 9-184 (Nixon),
10-184 (Masters).
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Harmison | 19 | 7 | 30 | 4 |
| Plunkett | 18.3 | 4 | 55 | 3 |
| Collingwood | 8 | 3 | 15 | 0 |
| Davies | 13 | 5 | 34 | 2 |
| Benkenstein | 10 | 4 | 26 | 1 |
| Breese | 7 | 2 | 18 | 0 |