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Gurney strikes Durham amidships
- Updated: August 31, 2016
Nottinghamshire 129 for 2 (Libby 51*, Lumb 68*) trail Durham 244 (Gurney 6-61) by 115 runsScorecard
The first six-wicket haul of Harry Gurney’s first-class career lifted struggling Nottinghamshire’s woes in their Specsavers County Championship match against Durham at Chester-le-Street.
The left-arm seamer finished with six for 61 as Durham lost nine wickets in the afternoon session to be all out for 244.
Durham quickly reduced Nottinghamshire to 16 for two, but Michael Lumb survived a streaky start to take them to 129 for 2 in partnership with Jake Libby.
On a pitch which appeared to encourage attacking cricket, Durham chose to bat and raced to 77 without loss after 14 overs. At that point 33 had come off the previous three, with Keaton Jennings taking 15 off Gurney’s second over, including a six carved over backward point.
Mark Stoneman drove Imran Tahir for six over long-on, but with both batsmen on 33 the fun ended when Jennings was lbw on the front foot to a ball from Gurney which swung from outside leg stump.
Tahir, on for …
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