Some breathtaking hitting from Tom Wells gave Leicestershire Foxes their second Natwest T20 Blast victory of the season with a four-wicket win over Durham Jets at Chester-le-Street.
Wells smashed 31 runs from just 18 balls as Foxes got over the line with five balls to spare.
The visitors had looked to be cruising towards their target of 178 but a flurry of wickets left them needing 26 off 12 balls before Wells smashed 24 off the penultimate over.
Having won the toss and electing to field, captain Josh Cobb tossed the new ball to two Foxes T20 debutants – Dan Redfern and Charlie Shreck.
Shreck, playing his first T20 game since 2008, showed his rustiness with two wides with his first two balls before being drilled for consecutive boundaries by opener Phil Mustard.
Fellow opener Mark Stoneman also found the boundary on a good surface, a forward defensive racing through the covers for four as Durham charged to 30-0 from three overs.
Seamers Anthony Ireland and Ben Raine bowled tidily to reduce the rate as the boundaries began to dry up.
Jigar Naik made the breakthrough with his first ball, trapping Stoneman lbw for 17 attempting a reverse sweep. He then bagged Mustard for 36 with a stunning reaction catch off his own bowling.
Calum MacLeod stepped up the rate for the Jets, hitting Naik for two sixes over cow corner in the spinner's final over but, like Mustard, failed to kick on and was bowled by Shreck for 42, trying an extravagant ramp shot over fine leg.
Foxes took wickets at regular intervals as England all-rounder Ben Stokes was run out for 20 with a direct hit from Tom Wells before John Hastings smashed one straight to Cobb at mid-off first ball off Raine and, with three overs left, Durham were 144-5.
Gordon Muchall, supported by former England captain Paul Collingwood, provided some late firepower with a flurry of boundaries, before being caught at point for 43 as Ireland took two wickets in the last over.
The Foxes' reply got off to positive, if unattractive, start as Cobb edged the first ball of through slips for four.
The Foxes' captain was going well as he welcomed Stokes into the attack by smashing him back over his head into the car park before smearing him through the covers.
Cobb's brutal cameo was then brought to an end by a stunning catch by MacLeod on the boundary at long-on.
Ned Eckersley and the in-form Greg Smith took a while to find their stride but eventually began to get going, Eckersley launching Stokes over mid-wicket for six, before Smith reverse-swept the first two balls of off-spinner Gareth Breese's first over for four.
Smith was sent on his way when he was adjudged lbw off Keaton Jennings, much to the batsman's disgust.
Durham seamer Usman Arshad was taken out of the attack for bowling two no-balls above waist height in the over. Eckersley was unperturbed though, hitting a four and a six, as the over went for 26.
The Foxes looked to be cruising but lost a flurry of quick wickets in quick succession.
This brought their run-rate to a standstill as they scored just eight runs in three overs, leaving themselves 26 to win from the last two overs. Wells nearly only needed one, as he smashed three sixes and a four off Collingwood's last over.
