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Cobb hits third century as Leicestershire win again

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Josh Cobb hammered his third consecutive one-day century as Leicestershire Foxes made it three wins from three YB40 matches.

In the beautiful setting of the Wormsley cricket ground, Cobb finished unbeaten on 128 as the Foxes beat the Unicorns by six wickets after being set 254 to win.

Leicestershire probably felt that they had allowed their opponents 30 or so runs too many and that appeared the case when they slipped to 120-4 in the 24th over of their run chase.

But Cobb was joined by Shiv Thakor and the two added 136 for the fifth wicket with some hard hitting and sharp running when the pressure threatened to mount.

Thakor was 64 not out at the close and he took the Foxes to victory with a glorious cover-driven four from the final ball of the penultimate over.

Cobb rode his luck, it has to be said, as he was dropped twice before he had reached 50.

However, he also showed great maturity as he got his head down in the middle overs and worked the ball around, refusing to go for the big shot until the right ball came along.

He crashed a brace of sixes over long-off, but it was his third and fourth maximums in the 32nd over which took him into three figures and really turned the tide.

That was in the midst of a powerplay in which Cobb and Thakor upped the rate perfectly with 41 runs coming off just four overs to take the score from 173-4 to 214-4 and put the winning line in sight.

The Unicorns gave a good account of themselves after being put in to bat and their total was a useful one after they were given a sound start by Lewis Hill and Tom Lancefield.

Hill is well known to the Grace Road club having played a good deal of second-team cricket as well as figuring for Lutterworth in the Everards League He was the major player in the opening stand of 32 before he was caught at deep midwicket off the bowling of Rob Taylor for 26.

Leicestershire struggled for a breakthrough and Lancefield, who was dropped on 15, and Mike O'Shea made steady progress as they took their side to 114 before a miscommunication saw O'Shea run out for 46 when he had looked in little trouble.

Lancefield and former Derbyshire all-rounder Garry Park ran hard between the wickets, but the good thing from County's perspective was that boundary count was kept to a minimum.

Lancefield played extremely well for his 58, his innings ended when Taylor trapped him lbw, but Park continued to scamper and improvise as his side looked to set a target in excess of 250.

Vishal Tripathi gave the innings some acceleration, too, notably in the powerplay, which saw Unicorns' fourth-wicket pair add 36 runs in four overs.

Shiv Thakor ended Tripathi's stay on 43 and Taylor captured his third wicket when skipper Keith Parsons edged behind.

Park went past 50 but was held in the deep by Matthew Boyce off Anthony Ireland but his contribution ensured the Unicorns had a competitive total.

Cobb hits third century as Leicestershire win again


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