Durham clinch Lord's trophy glory

FE Team | Published: August 20, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

Durham earned their first major success with a 125-run win over Hampshire in the Friends Provident Trophy final, reports BBC.
Hants resumed needing another 155 from 17.3 overs, adding 16 before losing remaining frontline batsmen Nic Pothas and Dimi Mascarenhas in seven balls.
Both players hit boundaries but Pothas holed out to deep mid-wicket for 47 and Mascarenhas was bowled by England's Liam Plunkett, who impressed with 3-42.
Durham made 312 Saturday and reduced Hants to 158-5 before rain intervened.
That challenge quickly increased when play finally resumed almost two hours later than scheduled on a grey Sunday before a smattering of spectators.
Plunkett immediately found an accurate line and length and his three dot balls to complete the 33rd over took the required rate above nine an over.
The first boundary came in the second full over of the day when a Plunkett long hop was hooked for four by Mascarenhas to ensure the rate did not reach double figures.
It was the only blemish in an impressive spell and a wicket maiden confirmed Hampshire's fate as Plunkett bowled Mascarenhas, who tried a desperate heave and saw his off-stump knocked back.
Collingwood backed up Plunkett with some accurate and clever variations of pace, giving the tailenders very little opportunity to score the boundaries needed.
His England colleague Chris Tremlett skied to mid-on and after Powell spooned a simple catch, Plunkett had the distinction of clinching Durham's first trophy in 16 years as a first-class county when he shattered Shane Warne's stumps with a yorker.
Durham dominated from the moment Warne won the toss and put them in under cloudy skies on Saturday morning.
Phil Mustard was strong on both sides of the wicket and motored on despite the departure of Michael Di Venuto, who was brilliantly caught by Michael Carberry at mid-wicket.
The wicket-keeper batsman was a run away from a deserved half century when James Bruce won an lbw verdict with a ball which pitched outside leg-stump.
West Indies left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul, who was virtually immovable against England earlier in the summer, made the most of that escape by reaching 50 off 60 balls, with the highlights big sixes off Tremlett over mid-wicket and a swept maximum off Sean Ervine.
Kyle Coetzer needed four more deliveries to reach his half century and when he thrashed Ervine, a match-winner at Lord's in the 2005 final, into the top tier of the grandstand, it looked grim for Hampshire.
But Coetzer prodded the next ball tamely to Warne at short extra-cover and Chanderpaul was run out when Collingwood rejected a second run.
From looking set to wreak carnage, Durham slowed up, but skipper Dale Benkenstein kickstarted them again by heaving Ervine and Daren Powell for maximums.
The departure of Collingwood actually helped up the scoring, as Ottis Gibson smote Tremlett over the mid-wicket fence and through extra-cover - the tall paceman's response a wild beamer.
Benkenstein hit the last three balls of the innings from Powell - whose 10 overs cost 80 - for six, four and four to put the seal on the highest score in a 50-over domestic Lord's final.