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Mustard muscle trumps Guptill’s impressive debut
- Updated: May 27, 2016
Durham 151 for 4 (Mustard 46) beat Lancashire 149 for 8 (Guptill 72, McCarthy 3-23, Arshad 3-30) by six wickets Scorecard
A fine half-century on debut by Martin Guptill could not prevent cup-holders Lancashire Lightning slumping to their second successive defeat when they lost to Durham Jets by six wickets in Friday’s NatWest T20 Blast game at Emirates Old Trafford.
Guptill made 72 off 46 balls but the New Zealand opener’s efforts were rather eclipsed by his Jets counterpart Phil Mustard, whose 46 off 18 balls included five fours and three sixes and put his side on course to overhaul Lightning’s plainly inadequate 149 for 8.
Graham Clark then took up where Mustard had left off and made 36 off 27 balls as the Jets romped home with five overs to spare.
Having been asked to bat first, Lancashire Lightning’s innings got off to a poor start when they lost Alviro Petersen and Karl Brown to successive balls in Usman Arshad’s second over.
Things got worse for the hosts two overs later when Arshad took his third wicket in ten balls, Jos Buttler skying the seamer on the off side only to see Paul Collingwood take a fine diving catch running back from point.
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