Dynamos v foxes - as it happens!

Leicestershire won the toss and have elected to bat first. Gordon Muchall is replaced by Liam Plunkett, who makes his first appearance since returning from injury.  

Neil Killeen and Mitchell Claydon opened the bowling followed by a double change which saw Liam Plunkett come on at the Pavilion End and Ben Harmison at the Bennett End.  It's Harmison who makes the breakthrough when Jim Allenby (19) was caught at extra cover by Dale Benkenstein.

Neil Killeen returns to bowl the fifth over and bowls Du Toit for 5.  With bowling changes every over Blackwell and Breese bowl their first overs.  After 10 overs Leicestershire were 60-2.

Ben Harmison returned at the Pavilion End to bowl the eleventh over and had opener Mathew Boyce caught by Will Smith on 19 with his first ball.  Paul Nixon became Harmison's third victim in the 15th over when he was caught by Breese on 9.

The hosts passed the hundred mark in the sixteenth over, 101-4.  Dippenaar reaches his half century off 40 balls, hitting five fours and a six.

Mitchell Claydon picked up two wickets in the 18th over leaving Leicesterhsire 115-6 - James Taylor caught by Plunkett at the leg side boundary on 5 and his replacement, Wayne White, bowled for a first ball duck.  

Leicestershire were 125-7 once Boeta Dippenaar was caught by Phil Mustard off the bowling of Neil Killeen for 63.  Claude Henderson was caught by Will Smith on the boundary off the last ball of the innings, giving Claydon his third scalp of the match.

Leicestershire finish with 133 on the board. Phil Mustard opens the batting with a confident David Warner, who hits the first two deliveries from Harris, bowling from the Bennett end, for a four and a six.

Durham passed the fifty mark in the fifth over with Warner on 31 and Mustard on 18.  Claude Henderson was brought on to bowl from the Bennett End in the seventh over and had David Warner (44) caught on the boundary by Wayne White having faced 18 balls, hitting five fours and three sixes.

Phil Mustard (27) was given out lbw off the first ball of Henderson's second over, and his replacement Kyle Coetzer (3) fell to the same fate a few balls later.

After 10 overs Durham were 87-3, in comparison to Leicestershire's 60-3 at the same point in their innings, and went on to pass the hundred mark in the thirteenth over.

Ian Blackwell was caught by Du Toit at mid on off White for 19.  Will Smith (4*) joins Dale Benkenstein (33*)  at the crease and they go on to hit the winning runs securing Durham a place in the quarter finals and a place in the first division of next year's P20 competition.

Dynamos v foxes - ARRIVING AT GRACE ROAD

Durham Dynamos travel to Grace Road to face Leicester in their final group stage match of the Twenty20 Cup.  Both sides are vying for the second quarter final place after the Dynamos were only able to pick up one point on Friday due to the match at Riverside against Lancashire being abandoned without a ball being bowled.

The Men in Black go into the match in third place, one point behind their opposition.  The squad enroute to Leicester is largely unchanged from the Dynamos previous two games, Liam Plunkett, who was due to play in Friday's game is added and is likely to play.



The Dynamos arrive at Grace Road where the sun is shining, the bus drops the team at the opposite side of the ground to the pavilion due work occurring at the normal entrance gates so all the kit has to be brought across the pitch to the dressing room.  For once there isn't a long walk to the Media Centre as we're handily parked right next to it! The Media Centre is situated at the front part of the building which houses the indoor school, directly opposite the pavilion. 

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