Leicestershire rout Yorkshire for first top-flight win since 2003

Leicestershire rout Yorkshire for first top-flight win since 2003

Leicestershire 453 (Rehan 128, Kelly 121, R Patel 67, Evison 55, Moriarty 4-85) beat Yorkshire 185 (Wharton 56, Green 3-27) and 229 (Moriarty 51*, Davey 3-36, A Patel 3-59, Green 3-61) by an innings and 39 runs

Leicestershire

Leicestershire completed an emphatic victory inside three days as Yorkshire were bowled out for 229 at Uptonsteel Grace Road, Jonny Bairstow’s side sinking to a third defeat of the season by an innings and 39 runs.

Yorkshire

Bairstow himself went for a three-ball duck as the Foxes, who went into this round rock bottom of Division One after four consecutive defeats, registered their first win of the campaign – their first at this level since 2003 after ending a 22-year exile as Division Two champions last year.

Alex Green

Alex Green, the 19-year-old pace bowler who picked up his maiden first-class wickets in Yorkshire’s first innings, added three more, with three each for New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel and for Scotland international seamer Josh Davey.

Dan Moriarty

Dan Moriarty and Dom Bess held things up, the former cracking 11 boundaries in a career-best unbeaten 51 after Bess had hit seven fours in a defiant 40, the last two wickets adding 95 before Alex Green bowled No 11 Jack White for 21, leaving Leicestershire waiting to learn Hampshire’s fate to see if the 23 points had been enough to lift them off the bottom.