Leicestershire slump to open door for Derbyshire

Leicestershire 380 and 109 for 5 (Cosgrove 49) lead Derbyshire 362 (Madsen 76, Raine 5-66) by 127 runsScorecard

Derbyshire put themselves in a position to secure their first championship win of the season after turning the tables on Leicestershire on the third day of the second division match at the Fischer County Ground.

The visitors’ lower order and tail batted with huge determination in the first half of the day, ensuring Leicestershire’s first innings advantage was just 18, before the bowlers picked up five wickets to leave the Foxes leading by only 127 with five second innings wickets in hand at the close.

Resuming on 199 for 6, Alex Hughes and Alex Mellor, the latter making his first-class debut, batted without giving a chance in raising a 50 partnership for the seventh wicket. Having done so, however, and with a personal half-century within reach, Hughes had his off stump knocked out by Richard Jones, the delivery keeping a touch low as it burst through the …

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