Durham hammer Gloucs by an innings & 225 runs
Durham thrash Gloucestershire by an innings and 225 runs inside three days in a one-sided County Championship Division Two match.
Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol (day three) Durham 605-5 dec: McKinney 244, Lees 129, Bedingham 118; Miles 2-89 Gloucestershire 175 & 205: Bancroft 56; Parkinson 3-25 Durham (24 pts) beat Gloucestershire (1 pt) by an innings and 225 runs Match scorecard Callum Parkinson claimed three key wickets as Durham thrashed Gloucestershire by an innings and 225 runs inside three days in a one-sided County Championship Division Two match at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol. Having not featured as a bowler until the 27th over of the second innings, the experienced left-arm spinner quickly sent back Ben Charlesworth, Cameron Bancroft and Miles Hammond to leave the home side 141-3 after they had followed on a massive 430 runs behind. A century opening stand between Charlesworth and skipper Bancroft, who top-scored with 56, had offered hope of a Gloucestershire fightback.
But once Parkinson had made inroads, the seamers took over, Matthew Potts (3-49), Kemar Roach (2-55) and Kasey Aldridge (2-32) completing a resounding victory as the hosts plunged to 205 all out. Ben Raine had earlier grabbed the last two wickets in Gloucestershire's first innings of 175 to finish with 5-45. Durham took a maximum 24 points from a resounding success.
It was a second innings defeat in as many games for the West countrymen, who were comprehensively outplayed and took just one point, leaving them on zero after a two-point deduction for a slow over-rate against Middlesex at Lord's had put them on -1. The visitors needed just 2. 3 overs to wrap up Gloucestershire's first innings after they had begun the day on 168-8 in reply to 605-5 declared.
Craig Miles, on 22, edged the first ball from Raine to first slip and the seamer quickly followed up by pinning Will Williams lbw. It looked like being a different story second time around when Bancroft and Charlesworth began positively and took the score to 77 without loss at lunch. After rain delayed the restart, they had progressed their stand to 101 when Charlesworth, on 21, got an inside edge to Parkinson and Graham Clark took the catch at short-leg.