RESULT
Leicester, April 26 - 29, 2015, LV= County Championship Division Two
251 & 429
(T:376) 305 & 283

Northants won by 92 runs

Report

Northants edge ahead on fluctuating day

Northamptonshire's seamers took five wickets in the second hour of play to bowl the visitors back into a match which ended the day finely balanced at Grace Road

Northamptonshire 251 and 105 for 2 (Peters 50) lead Leicestershire 305 (Robson 75) by 51 runs
Scorecard
Northamptonshire's seamers took five wickets in the second hour of play to bowl the visitors back into a match which ended the day finely balanced at Grace Road.
The hosts lost five for 37 and were grateful to Clint McKay and Ben Raine who stuck around long enough to give them a first innings lead before they were bowled out for 305. However, Northamptonshire had time to put on 105 for 2 before stumps for an advantage of 51.
Leicestershire's overnight batsmen Angus Robson and Ned Eckersley had batted without alarm in taking the Foxes' first innings from 102-1 to 139 when Robson, on 75, cut at a rising delivery from David Willey and edged to Stephen Peters at first slip.
Eckersley then edged an outswinger from Olly Stone to Alex Wakely at second slip for 28, before Willey bowled Neil Pinner for a duck off the inside edge, a well-pitched up delivery that swung back at the right-hander.
Soon afterwards, Mark Cosgrove drove at a ball from Stone that left him off the pitch and edged a catch behind, and when Niall O'Brien went in the same way shortly before lunch, driving at a delivery from Mohammad Azharullah without getting to the pitch of the ball, Leicestershire had gone from 139 for 1 to 176 for 6.
When Tom Wells went caught behind feeling for a wide delivery from Stone shortly after lunch, Leicestershire were still 50 runs adrift of Northamptonshire's first innings total, but McKay joined Raine in compiling a partnership of 87 for the eighth wicket.
Australian seamer McKay, making his first-class debut for Leicestershire, hit five fours and one six in going to 47, but was caught at long-on by Willey off the bowling of Josh Cobb as he attempted to bring up his half-century with another maximum.
Raine also went for 47, hitting across the line at a slower delivery from Azharullah, and Charlie Shreck chipped Rory Kleinveldt straight into the hands of Richard Levi at midwicket to bring the innings to a close.
A first innings lead of 54 looked a useful one for Leicestershire, and it would have been even more so if Leicestershire had not dropped three catches in the evening session. Peters was dropped twice, by Pinner at second slip and McKay at long leg, both times off Raine, in going to 50 before finally being held at gully by Robson off Shreck.
Levi was also put down, by Robson off the unfortunate Raine on 17, before being held by Pinner at second slip off the same bowler for 20.

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