Willey then struck with the first ball of Durham’s chase as Graham Clark loosely guided a back-of-a-length ball to backward point, though McKinney was quickly into his stride.<\/p>\n
He twice pushed Willey back down the ground for early boundaries before taking two fours and a six off McSweeney’s off-spin as 16 came off the fourth over. The six, over long-on, thudded into the bottom floor of the Riverside’s Media Centre.<\/p>\n
However, excellent Ben Sanderson (2-26) struck with successive deliveries in the fifth over as the score became 41-3. He uprooted Alex Lees’ leg-stump before trapping Ollie Robinson lbw.<\/p>\n
And when McKinney skewed Zaib’s first ball of left-arm spin to backward point to fall for 33, the Steelbacks held sway at 53-4 in the eighth.<\/p>\n
McSweeney then had a hand in the next two wickets as the score fell to 90-6 in the 14th over. He had Colin Ackermann caught at cover and ran Aldridge out at the striker’s end with a throw running in from deep mid-wicket to prevent a second.<\/p>\n
Will Rhodes and Raine tried to recover, only for the latter to be bowled by Sales – 113-7 after 17.<\/p>\n
The target became 24 off the last two overs and 14 off the last with Rhodes on 29 and T20 debutant bowler James Minto at the crease.<\/p>\n
Nerveless Sales had Rhodes caught at mid-off for 31 in the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willey then struck with the first ball of Durham’s chase as Graham Clark loosely guided a back-of-a-length ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625123","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\/625123","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=625123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}