Alex Lees falls as Leicestershire chip away between showers
Tom Taylor, Will Davis and Gareth Griffiths picked up a wicket each in 22.3 overs possible
ECB Reporters Network
16-Aug-2020
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Durham 227 for 6 (Bedingham 96, Lees 64) v Leicestershire
Rain and bad light meant only 22.3 overs were possible, during which 51 runs were scored and three wickets fell, on the second day of the Bob Willis Trophy first-class match between Leicestershire and Durham at the Fischer County Ground.
After the morning was lost to the weather, play began shortly before one 1pm, and Durham quickly lost the wicket of opener Alex Lees, who had added just two to his overnight score of 62 when the left-hander got a thin edge to an outswinger from Foxes' seamer Tom Taylor and was caught by wicketkeeper Harry Swindells.
Lees was replaced by Jack Burnham, who hit six boundaries, five sweetly struck through the off side, in going to 31, and who had built an unbroken partnership of 43 for the fifth wicket with Gareth Harte when the light closed in again and the umpires called an early tea.
On the return - again delayed - Burnham edged a Will Davis outswinger to second slip, where Colin Ackermann took a neat catch low to his left, and two balls later Harte edged a fine delivery from Gareth Griffiths, Swindells taking the catch two handed to his right.
