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'Wheels not off' after first Leics loss
Leicestershire's first defeat of the season will not trigger panic, says Foxes all-rounder Logan van five-wicket T20 Blast loss to Northants Steelbacks came two days after the County Championship Division Two leaders opened their white-ball campaign with victory against East Midlands rivals wickets lost in the first over and an early batting collapse had Leicestershire at 39-7 and staring at the prospect of setting a club-record low total in the competition.A knock of 42 from Van Beek helped then to 122 all out, and while they had Northants 75-4 in the 14th over, Ravi Bopara's unbeaten 46 off 40 balls took them home with four balls to spare."We just had a terrible start, and that doesn't mean the wheels have fallen off or anything like that," Van Beek told BBC Radio Leicester."We just have to acknowledge it. We had a bad start, that was it. We now have another game in two days' time, so let's click into that." Van Beek says the early difficulties at Wantage Road did nothing to diminish the new levels of confidence the side has found in the opening months of the coach Alfonso Thomas has spoken in recent weeks about how it has taken "baby steps" to lift Leicestershire out of the County Championship doldrums to the top of the Division Two five victories in seven matches leading up to the start of the T20 campaign is as many wins as they managed in the second tier of the red-ball game between 2019 and 2024."Even in this situation, because we have been winning you kind of have a bit of an instinct that 'all right we can pull this out of the fire here'," Van Beek said."You have a good feeling going into games and a good feeling going into situations knowing you are winning and have the momentum."Leicestershire are next in action on Wednesday at Old Trafford where they face North Group leaders Lancashire Lightning, who have won all three of their T20 matches.
BBC News
25-05-2025
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Leaders Leicestershire thrash lacklustre Lancashire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester (day three)Lancashire 206 & 248: Jennings 112; Van Beek 4-61Leicestershire 457: Ahmed 136, Hill 119, Holland 50; Balderson 3-106Leicestershire (24pts) beat Lancashire (3pts) by an innings and three runsMatch scorecard Leicestershire's remarkable season continued apace with victory over Lancashire by an innings and three runs to further reinforce an already formidable lead in Division Two of the County a 251-run advantage on first innings, brought about largely by centuries from Rehan Ahmed and Lewis Hill, they bowled Lancashire out for 248 to complete a fifth win of the season, all of which have been achieved with a day to Jennings, who stepped down as Red Rose captain earlier this month in the light of his side's woeful start to the campaign, gave his side hope of salvaging something with a characterful 112, but no other batter made more than 26 in another dismal performance from the winless van Beek was Leicestershire's most successful bowler with 4-61 and there were two wickets each for Josh Hull, Tom Scriven and watched Leicestershire progress merrily through Saturday at 4.23 runs per over compared with their own 2.65 on day one, Lancashire might have imagined runs would come more easily to them on day three, yet it took 29 overs to trim 74 off their deficit in the first more, they lost three wickets in doing so, including perhaps critically that of their leading scorer and principal hope of avoiding defeat here, Marcus Australian perished in the penultimate over before lunch as captain Peter Handscomb repeated his first-day tactic of bringing back his new-ball bowlers for a pre-interval burst. It brought success then and it did again as Harris flashed at a ball outside off stump to be caught behind for provided a third wicket of the morning for Van Beek, who had been 2-9 from six overs after his first spell, having dismissed Luke Wells and Josh Bohannon in the space of three deployed an uppercut to lift a short delivery over the slip cordon but did not control the shot and Lewis Hill, with a gusty crosswind adding an extra element of difficulty, took a well-judged catch at wide third man. Bohannon then edged to second slip for a second-ball the collapse sparked by Van Beek's breakthrough before lunch on day one was not repeated, thanks largely to Jennings, who showed the strength of his character in a difficult season to guide Lancashire to 209-5 at tea thanks to the 32nd first-class hundred of his career, his 16th for his current was doubtless not the most fluid among them on a pitch starting to produce variable bounce, and he survived a chance on 58 when a diving Ben Cox could not get his gloves around a flick down the legside off Hull, but it kept his side in the finding support from Matty Hurst, who was caught behind off a fine delivery by Scriven, in adding 70 for the fourth wicket, Jennings reached the milestone as a meaty pull off Van Beek brought him a 10th fifth wicket added a further 58, although George Bell's dismissal off a top-edged pull just before tea detracted a touch from what had otherwise been a solid session for the visitors, who were still 42 behind at the breakthrough Leicestershire craved was not far away, Jennings falling seven overs into the evening session, his demise brought about by a ball that reared up off a length from Scriven and caught the batter's right glove, Handscomb taking an excellent catch at that, Lancashire's downfall came about at pace. Hull brought one back to bowl George Balderson and Ahmed's leg spin came into the game to have Tom Bailey caught behind, with the England all-rounder following up by trapping Anderson Phillip leg then took a splendid catch on the run off his own bowling to remove Tom Hartley and spark Leicestershire's celebrations in a season in which promotion already looks theirs to lose with the Championship season only at the halfway supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
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23-05-2025
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Lancashire on back foot against Leicestershire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester (day one)Lancashire 206: Wells 36, Hurst 31; van Beek 3-38, Hull 3-43Leicestershire 59-2: Ahmed 26*; Williams 1-13, Bailey 1-28Leicestershire 3 pts, Lancashire 0 ptsMatch scorecard Winless Lancashire squandered a promising start to be bowled out for 206 on day one of their visit to runaway Division Two leaders Leicestershire in the County Van Beek and Josh Hull took three wickets each as Lancashire, who had been 74-0 in the 28th over, were dismissed an hour after tea and Leicestershire added three points to the impressive 115 banked from four wins and two of the Red Rose batters made starts but none could turn them to anything of consequence, with Luke Wells' 36 their top made an unsteady start to their first innings, losing openers Sol Budinger and Rishi Patel inside the opening seven overs, but had progressed to 52-2 at the hoping to see Jimmy Anderson in a first-class match at Grace Road for the first time in 20 years were disappointed after Lancashire decided he should miss this match to manage his recovery from injury, having bowled 28 overs against Derbyshire last hosts won the toss and opted to bowl first on a green-tinged pitch, through their four worthy seamers, led by the division's leading wicket-taker Ian they were successful only once in a morning session with which Lancashire, after their struggles of the season so far, would have been lost Keaton Jennings (27) leg before in the first over of Van Beek's second spell, but 77-1 at lunch was at least fortunes took a turn for the worse in the middle session, the first ball of which saw a tentative Wells, who was dropped at first slip on 10, caught behind as Van Beek struck celebrations were understandably animated with the departure of Harris for 10. The Australian made more than 1,000 first-class runs over two stints at Grace Road. He could count himself unfortunate this time, bowled by a ball from Ben Green that dislodged the leg bail after seeming to pinball off his thigh pad and the back of his was rather less bad luck involved in the four other dismissals that left Lancashire 171-7 at tea. Josh Bohannon, beaten for pace, was leg before to a good delivery from Hull, but George Bell and Matty Hurst, both caught at slip within the space of three deliveries bowled by Holland and Tom Scriven, may reflect that they should have played better Handscomb, who caught both, the first at the second attempt, instinctively grabbed on to another deflection as George Balderson became a second victim for Scriven. This time it was via a superb ball that went past the edge and hit the off stump. Scriven was denied when diving wicketkeeper Ben Cox put down Tom Bailey on four, but Leicestershire were well on Hartley (23 not out), marshalled a degree of resistance as Leicestershire's bowlers got into the tail, but Bailey was bowled offering no shot. Lancashire dragged their total past 200 before Anderson Phillip, off a steepling top edge, and Will Williams were caught tamely, was caught at midwicket, and Patel at second slip as Williams and Bailey claimed a wicket each with the new with Lewis Hill at the crease to temper Rehan Ahmed's exuberance, Leicestershire recovered from 24-2 to close on 59 without further Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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18-05-2025
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Leicestershire beat Middlesex to end Lord's drought
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Lord's (day three)Middlesex 232 & 143: Hollman 42; Van Beek 3-28, Green 3-32Leicestershire 274 & 102-3: Budinger 25, Hill 23*Leicestershire (20 pts) beat Middlesex (3 pts) by seven wicketsMatch scorecard Three wickets apiece for seamers Logan van Beek and Ben Green set up Leicestershire's first red-ball victory at Lord's in 45 years, flattening Middlesex to strengthen their position as County Championship Division Two Beek took 3-28 – including two wickets in as many balls – while Green's 3-32 also played a pivotal role in ensuring the home side were dismissed for 143 in their second collapsed after Sam Robson and Max Holden's opening stand of 51, losing six wickets for 34 despite Luke Hollman's defiant knock of left the Foxes hunting a modest victory target of 102 and they got there with three wickets down, skipper Peter Handscomb hitting the winning runs off Hollman to secure his side's fourth win in six Beek's initial spell in the morning was on the costly side, with Robson picking him off three times to the short leg-side fence as he and Holden wiped out their 32-run overnight deficit without changes of bowling at both ends brought Leicestershire success, with Robson pinned in front by a Green delivery that seamed back at him, although Tom Scriven's successful lbw shout against Holden might have been missing leg began his innings brightly, crunching Green through the covers for four, but Middlesex soon became bogged down and their lack of runs eventually gave way to a clatter of avoiding a pair, Leus du Plooy never looked entirely comfortable and was trapped leg before as Van Beek got one to straighten before Ryan Higgins flashed hard at the next and Peter Handscomb clung on at second struggled through to lunch at 79-4, but their prospects continued to deteriorate after the interval as Ian Holland drew Ben Geddes into an edge to slip and Van Beek bamboozled Jack Davies with a ball that took out his off boundary off Van Beek was the first in well over an hour of play, but Zafar Gohar quickly added another, thumping Josh Hull to the rope beyond mid-off to lift his side's total into three seventh-wicket pair ground out a dogged partnership of 40 before Green returned to dismiss both Gohar and then Hollman in identical fashion, jagging the ball back to hit the top of middle and off.A brisk undefeated 16 from Toby Roland-Jones hauled Middlesex's slender lead just above 100 before leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed mopped up the tail with two wickets from successive Budinger launched Leicestershire's pursuit with gusto, clubbing Dane Paterson for two boundaries in a quickfire 25 before dragging onto his leg stump, while Holden's well-judged catch over his shoulder as he ran back from cover accounted for Rishi also departed, caught behind off Middlesex's teenage debutant Naavya Sharma, but it was not enough to derail the Foxes as Handscomb and Lewis Hill steered them across the Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
