9:06AM, Mon Jul 2, 2012

Durham Dynamos Beat Leicestershire Foxes By Eight Wickets In Friends Life Twenty-20

By James Craggs and Phil Forster Location: Emirates ICG

Video: Phil Mustard: Everyone played their part in Leicestershire win

Durham kept alive their hopes of reaching the Friends Life t20 quarter-finals with a comprehensive nine-wicket victory over holders Leicestershire at Chester-le-Street on Sunday.

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The Foxes' tame defence of their title hit a new low as they struggled to 114-7 after being put in and allowed Durham to race home with 6.4 overs to spare.

Durham now have four wins and four defeats from their eight outings in teh competition and if they beat Leicestershire again at Grace Road on Friday they will go into next Sunday's final game at home to Lancashire with quarter-final hopes very much alive.

Leicestershire opener Abdul Razzaq batted for all but three balls of the innings for 47, while Phil Mustard (51) made a 29-ball half-century in Durham's opening stand of 82.

Chris Rushworth began the match with the Twenty20 rarity of a maiden over and followed up with three more dot balls, before Razzaq cut him for four and then six before ending the over with an off drive for four.

But Razzaq then went back into his shell and found the boundary only three more times in his 57-ball innings.

With the ball darting around in the early overs, Razzaq left several balls and Graham Onions conceded only two off each of his first two overs.

Leicestershire were restricted to 21 off five before Josh Cobb (10) drove Onions over long-on for six, only to be struck on the boot by the next ball as he deaprted leg before.

With Ramnaresh Sarwan run out for a duck when he turned Gareth Breese to backward square leg, Matthew Boyce (16) and Ned Eckersley (13) were the only other Leicestershire players to reach double figures as the visitors posted their meagre total.

Durham scored only three off the opening over, bowled by Matthew Hoggard, but then the runs began to flow.

Mustard crashed six fours and three sixes as he raced to his half-century before being trapped lbw by Cobb.

But his departure proved only a momentary setback to the hosts and Herschelle Gibbs was unbeaten on 49 when Ben Stokes (15 not out) finished the match by driving Nathan Buck for a six over long-off.