Durham's drama
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reports from Swansea
Glamorgan 212-6 Durham 213-5 Durham win by five wickets
Durham beat the Sunday league leaders, Glamorgan, from two leg byes off the final ball at Swansea yesterday, to give them a victory by five wickets in an astonishing one-day match.
At 199 for 2 and needing just 14 more runs, Durham, with only one win in the competition this season, appeared to be cruising to an easy win. But, in a dramatic finale, Glamorgan launched a dramatic attempt to retrieve the match.
And they almost pulled it off before Darren Blenkiron, needing two off the final ball from Steve Barwick, scrambled two leg byes. Matthew Maynard recovered to shy at the wicket, missed, enabling the Durham pair to run a second and claim victory.
Earlier, by taking three wickets in 10 balls, Roland Lefebvre had put Glamorgan back in sight of a dramatic win. But with his last but one ball the Dutchman collapsed in a heap, stricken by a leg injury. Bravely, he carried on to bowl his final ball before collapsing again to be taken off on a stretcher.
At this juncture, Durham still needed six to win off the six balls to be bowled by Barwick. Then it was four of three before Phil Bainbridge seemed to have struck the winning boundary only for Adrian Dale to cut it off brilliantly and return to the wicketkeeper.
But the umpire, Trevor Jesty, ruled that the three Durham runs were one short because of their failure to cross legitimately and so an amazing finale was created with Durham still needing one to tie and two to win off Barwick's last delivery.
If luck favoured Durham in those final moments, they could point to a brilliant second-innings partnership of 152 by Mike Roseberry and Manoj Prabakhar. Durham's previous Sunday best total was 189. but these two very nearly scored that on their own as they reduced Glamorgan's reputation, and that of their normally tenacious bowling quartet, to tatters.
Roseberry was particularly uncharitable in thumping a six off Watkin, Croft, Barwick, Anthony and Dale as he savaged his way to 94 from 125 balls, which included six fours.
The elegant Prabakhar gave his captain able assistance (one six and five fours in his 69) and as Glamorgan toiled a packed St Helens wondered why the home side had struggled to score as freely. Only a fine 87 by Stephen James and a lively 43 from Robert Croft gave the leaders a respectable 212.
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