Carded to bat at seven, the all-rounder emerged at number five when Gay edged Tom Taylor behind.<\/p>\n
Stokes spent six balls on nought then moved off the mark with a nudge to fine leg off seamer Darley. There was an alarm when he inside-edged the experienced Taylor between his legs, but Stokes looked to be in to his work with two boundaries \u2013 a handsome drive straight off Darley and a fine tickle off Taylor.<\/p>\n
But when Home replaced Darley, Stokes took no time to assess the youngster highly rated at New Road as the paciest bowler on the staff.<\/p>\n
With no footwork, Stokes flirted at a back-of-a-length ball and offered the edge to Ethan Brookes, who took a smart tumbling catch.<\/p>\n
As he builds up to England’s first Test against New Zealand on 4 June, Stokes will get another chance to bat in the second innings of this match, then could play again for Durham against Kent next week.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Saturday, Stokes bowled six overs without adding to his two wickets from the first day.<\/p>\n
He bowled three overs at the beginning of the morning session and three with the second new ball, taking his total for the innings to 20.<\/p>\n
As Stokes’ workload was managed his absence from the attack was felt when Home and Darley \u2013 combined age of 41 and with two previous first-class matches between them \u2013 frustrated Durham with the 10th-wicket stand.<\/p>\n
Darley, 21, was obdurate in his support of Home. The number 11 faced 108 deliveries for his 12.<\/p>\n
Home played some wonderful shots, including a sweet cover drive off Stokes for four. His 106-ball stay included two sixes.<\/p>\n
Their stand delayed lunch and was eventually ended when Darley edged behind off Ben Raine, completing the Durham seamer’s third five-wicket haul of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carded to bat at seven, the all-rounder emerged at number five when Gay edged Tom Taylor behind. Stokes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-660606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}