da dobrowin： Ian Blackwell rode his luck to make 86 in rescuing Durham from 112 for 5 toreach 288 after being put in by Warwickshire on the return to four-day cricketat the Emirates Durham International Cricket Ground
28-Jun-2010
ScorecardIan Blackwell rode his luck to make 86 in rescuing Durham from 112 for 5 toreach 288 after being put in by Warwickshire on the return to four-day cricketat Chester-le-Street. The visitors then reached 7 for 0 before bad light ended play with nine overs remaining.Blackwell frequently played and missed, while Warwickshire thought he hadgloved an attempted pull to recalled wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose with his score onfive. There was a minimum of foot movement from the burly left-hander but he hitpowerfully in collecting 10 fours off 147 balls.While Warwickshire had lost Jonathan Trott and Chris Woakes to England Lionsduty, Durham were without Liam Plunkett, allowing Callum Thorp to return afterback trouble. That gave Durham four specialist seamers and a lengthy tail, but Thorp andChris Rushworth played some handsome strokes in making 29 and 26, while MitchClaydon contributed 18.Durham’s selection hinted that the pitch would favour the seamers, which washardly surprising after Warwickshire’s Imran Tahir became the first spinner totake eight wickets in an innings against them at Edgbaston a month ago.He had to settle for two today, his googly having Phil Mustard caught at slipfor 35 after a sixth-wicket stand of 91, while Thorp became over confident andwas stumped.The ball swung in the morning, but there was also enough in the pitch toencourage the bowlers to bang a few in and Gordon Muchall, Ben Stokes andRushworth all fell when pulling, while Neil Carter found extra bounce to haveMark Stoneman taken at second slip.Michael Di Venuto pulled the first ball of the match in front of mid-wicket forfour off Carter, who then swung one away to have the left-hander caught behindin the third over, although the Australian did not look happy with thedecision.Dale Benkenstein joined Muchall at 21 for 2 and while the senior man dug inhis partner made 27 before his top-edged pull off Rikki Clarke was athleticallyheld by Boyd Rankin. The Ireland international ran in from deep mid-wicket andlooked amazed when, after diving forward, he clung on.Benkenstein made 10 before he pushed forward to the perfect away swinger fromDarren Maddy and edged to Ambrose.