{"id":601942,"date":"2026-05-24T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601942\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:44:08","slug":"t20-blast-james-rew-sam-curran-and-moeen-ali-star-as-eight-remain-unbeaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601942\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast: James Rew, Sam Curran and Moeen Ali star as eight remain unbeaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durhams&#8217; strong start to the Blast season continued with a dominant performance to beat Leicestershire Foxes by six wickets with six overs to spare at the Riverside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Potts 3-28, including two wickets in an over, checked the Foxes charge with the bat as the visitors were restricted to 148-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opening pair of Graham Clark (62) and Alex Lees (45) put on 107 for the opening partnership \u2013\u00a0the former registering a 19th 50-plus T20 score for Durham,  eclipsing a club record set by Phil Mustard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite losing four wickets for 21 runs after Lees was dismissed, Colin Ackermann (19) and wicketkeeper Ollie Robinson (10) saw Durham home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moeen rolled back the years for Yorkshire, giving crucial momentum to the middle of a big run chase to down Derbyshire at Headingley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin Andersson helped the visitors to 194-4 with a superb unbeaten 81. But, arriving at the wicket with Yorkshire wilting at 49-3, the former England all-rounder hit a 35-ball 51.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Moeen was out at 123-7 Yorkshire still needed 72 runs, but an unbeaten ninth-wicket partnership between Andrew Tye (32) and Hasan Ali (31) got the White Rose over the line with four balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire sit second in North Group, behind Durham on eight points but with a slightly inferior net run-rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durhams&#8217; strong start to the Blast season continued with a dominant performance to beat Leicestershire Foxes by six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}