"Convicts" lock-out the Foxes

With the easiest of warm-up matches on these shores; the Australian tourists thumped Leicestershire by 102 D/L runs.


The Convicts major opposition came from the weather that firstly restricted their their inning from 50 to 41 but then made the Leicestershire target easier to 239 from 36. At 89/2 in the 17th over the Foxes were at their nearest to achieving the improbable but after that they slid to 136 all out.


Australian XI  241/8 (41 ov)


David Warner 74 retired out
David Hussey 37
Matthew Wade 32


Abdul Razzaq 3/39


Leicestershire 136 (29.4 ov)


Greg Smith 44
Matt Boyce 38
Paul Dixey 17

Clint McKay 4/31




Elsewhere, Essex beat Middlesex by 6 runs at Lord's and Bears game against Somerset was cut short by rain at Edgbaston after 7.1 overs of the first innings.