Sporting Digest: Cricket

TOUR MATCH

(One-day game)

Leicestershire v New Zealand

LEICESTER: New Zealand won by seven wickets.

(New Zealand won toss)

LEICESTERSHIRE

P V Simmons c Hartland b Nash 3

*N E Briers c Young b Morrison 12

J J Whitaker c Morrison b Hart 43

V J Wells c Nash b Hart 26

B F Smith c Morrison b Hart 11

P N Hepworth c Fleming b Thomson 8

P A Nixon c Rutherford b Nash 22

G J Parsons b Morrison 3

A R K Pierson c Parore b Davis 15

M T Brimson not out 3

D J Millns run out 0

Extras (lb12 w5 nb6) 23

Total (53.3 overs) 169

Fall: 1-17 2-17 3-61 4-94 5-101 6-123 7-128

8-153 9-169.

Bowling: Morrison 9-2-23-2; Nash 6.3-1-28- 2; Larsen 9-2-25-0; Davis 7-2-22-1; Hart 11-1- 27-3; Thomson 11-1-32-1.

NEW ZEALAND

B R Hartland b Pierson 38

B A Young c Simmons b Brimson 36

A C Parore not out 39

*K R Rutherford c Wells b Brimson 8

S P Fleming not out 35

Extras (b8 lb1 w3 nb2) 14

Total (for 3, 33.5 overs) 170

Fall: 1-71 2-94 3-103.

Bowling: Millns 4-0-23-0; Parsons 3-0-14-0; Simmons 4-0-18-0; Wells 3-0-15-0; Brimson 10-1-39-2; Pierson 9.5-1-52-1.

Did not bat: S A Thomson, G R Larsen, D J Nash, D K Morrison, M N Hart, H T Davis.

Umpires: B Dudleston and T E Jesty.

NO PLAY YESTERDAY

Oxford University v Warwickshire

THE PARKS (Third and final day): Match drawn.

WARWICKSHIRE - First Innings 303 for 5 dec (D P Ostler 149).

OXFORD UNIVERSITY - First Innings 47 for 2.

RAPID CRICKETLINE CHAMPIONSHIP (Second day of three): Swansea: Leicestershire 466 for 8 dec (D L Maddy 131, P E Robinson 114). Glamorgan 311 for 4 (A Roseberry 125, A J Dalton 94). Old Trafford: Nottinghamshire 224 (P J Martin 5-36, G Chapple 5-75) and 79 for 1. Lancashire 232 for 7 dec (P J Martin 95). Northampton: Northamptonshire 204 (V C Drakes 6-41) and 91 for 4. Sussex 216). No play yesterday: Maidstone: Kent 229. Surrey 44 for 0. Uxbridge: Yorkshire 419 for 7. (First day of three): Finchampsted: Hampshire v Somerset.