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Levi’s 20-ball fifty outdoes Umar Akmal
- Updated: May 20, 2016
Northamptonshire 168 for 5 (Levi 61) beat Leicestershire 178 for 5 (Akmal 52*, Pettini 43) by five wickets Scorecard
A brutal half-century from opener Richard Levi, made off just 20 balls, helped last year’s beaten finalists Northants Steelbacks make a winning start to their 2016 T20 Blast campaign against local rivals Leicestershire Foxes.
Even then, Leicestershire took the game to the final over, before Steelbacks’ overseas player Seekkuge Prasanna lifted the first ball he faced high over backward square for six to complete victory.
Playing for the first time under the new permanent lights now installed at Grace Road, Leicestershire were put in by the visitors, and their innings began in some style, openers Mark Cosgrove and Mark Pettini taking 62 from the six-over Powerplay.
Cosgrove’s dismissal for 27, lbw to Azharullah, …
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