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Leicestershire v Kent, Grace Road, 2 days

August 3, 2011

Leicestershire 257 and 148 to 5 219 v Kent

A devastating spell of left arm ball Kent seamer Adam left his County Championship Division Two match against fellow fighters willing finely Leicestershire at Grace Road. Mr. Ball was 3 to 14 in 7.2 overs as Leicestershire fell from 126 2 to 148 for 5 to lead by 186 runs at the end of the second day.


Earlier in the day Leicestershire offspinner Jigar Naik has also produced a spectacular performance with figures of 5-34 as Kent lost their last seven wickets for 58 runs, dropped to 219 everything to hand Leicester a lead of the first 38th sleeves

The hosts then seemed to move in a dominant position, Will Jefferson and Matt Boyce to share their half-century opening partnership of the game. They put a 72 25-overs first bowled off-spinner James Tredwell Jefferson was 37 when the batsman tried to work the ball from the side leg.

Then Tredwell trapped LBW by Greg Smith, Ball was taken before the attack, and quickly turned the match in favor of Kent again. First, he was caught behind Boyce, two tracks for less than half a century, and then removed by Josh Cobb in the same way as the young man went to an ambitious drive, from the carrier.

Ball struck again with what proved to be the last ball of the day, after Wayne White IPN 14 to dampen hopes of victory Leicestershire first championship since the season opener against Northamptonshire.

Kent, who started the day at 47 for 3, had a good pre-lunch session with Martin van Jaarsveld and Darren Stevens shared a fourth-place pedestrian 114 in 29 overs. Both have been very lucky in the first hour of the day, Stevens dropped slip and several other shots fly through the power of the border.

Both reached their half centuries, in which Stevens is off only 60 balls and hit 11 fours before finally edging Naik slipping a little 'before lunch, had 67

But the afternoon session went away in Leicestershire, where Naik star performer. He took the big wicket Van Jaarsveld, who was also a catch to slip, and then added to the scalp, and Tredwell, balls, and Geraint Jones to the list require five wicket for his second tour season.

Nathan Buck also returned to one of his best form, collecting the March 49, with Kent in the last six wickets falling to 43 operates in nine acquisitions.

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