Northamptonshire 91 for 4 (Agar 31) beat Durham 90 for five (Turner 36*) through six wickets
Agar got here in at Deny. 3 and smashed 31 to provide the guests a platform to chase indisposed 91 and McManus in conjunction with Saif Zaib guided the guests house with six wickets to alternative.
Northants at the moment are within the field seat for qualification as they nonetheless have two video games to play games, with a house fixture towards Birmingham Bears and a talk over with to Lancashire nonetheless to come back. In the meantime, Durham have to hope for some beneficial effects somewhere else as they’ve only one staff recreation left, a shuttle to Derbyshire on Friday night time.
With enough of drizzle falling at Chester-le-Side road, play games didn’t get started till 5.10 pm and the sport used to be diminished to 8 overs in step with facet. The Steelbacks received the toss and elected to bowl first, with Graham Clark and Michael Jones having the position of giving Durham a excellent get started in checking out statuses.
Alternatively, Clark chipped a Jack White ball, the primary of the innings to mid-on. Ben Sanderson after were given Alex Lees for 1 to position the hosts below actual force at 2 for two prior to Turner used to be dropped through Agar first ball.
However Jones bounced again and accident back-to-back sixes, each over the leg-side boundary. Turner joined in with Jones’ bulky hitting as he pulled a David Willey ball for 6 and he adopted that up with a stupendous ramp shot for 4.
Agar got here into the assault and made an speedy affect as the harmful Jones used to be stumped for 16. In the similar over Ben Raine used to be after dropped two times at the boundary through Gus Miller.
He after discovered his run scoring groove hitting Raine for back-to-back limitations. Agar dispatched any width introduced through the Durham assault, in particular in Bas de Leede’s handiest over, which went for 23.
Nathan Sowter got rid of him for 31 along with his 2d ball as he used to be stuck at the boundary, future Sowter persevered to assemble alternatives with Breetzke dropped through Lees on 11.
Breetzke didn’t terminating for much longer as Callum Parkinson bowled him for 20, with Ravi Bopara hitting an aerial shot from please see ball, which simply avoided de Leede.
Sowter after were given the skilled Bopara for six, however Zaib and McManus struck invaluable limitations and guided the Steelbacks house.
