Date-stamped : 03 Jul95 - 14:32
Durham scrape home on last-ball overthrow

By Edward Bevan at Swansea

Durham (213-5) bt Glamorgan (212-6) by 5 wkts

DURHAM ended Glamorgan`s winning sequence at the top of the table
when  they  won an exciting game at St Helen`s from the last ball
of the game.

The win had been set up by Mike Roseberry (94)  and  Manoj   Pra-
bhakar  (69)  - Durham`s first success against Glamorgan in seven
one-day games - but Roland Lefebvre and Steve Barwick came   back
for  the  final  four  overs  and almost snatched victory for the
Welshmen.

With only 19 required from the  final  four  overs,  Lefebvre   -
later taken off on a stretcher with a groin injury - bowled Rose-
berry and then had Prabhakar stumped by Colin Metson.

With six runs required from the final  over,  Barwick  also   had
John Longley stumped by Metson. Phil Bainbridge struck three from
the penultimate delivery, but the  umpires  signalled  one  short
run, which left Darren Blenkiron needing two from the last ball.

Barwick struck the batsman on the pad and Blenkiron took  a   leg
bye.  But Matthew Maynard missed with a shy at the stumps and the
batsman scampered an overthrow to win the game.

Earlier, Hugh Morris and  Steve  James  had  given  Glamorgan   a
sprightly  start, putting on 68 in 14 overs before Glamorgan lost
three wickets for only 16 runs. Morris and Maynard were run  out,
while James Boiling then bowled Tony Cottey.

James (87), who completed his fourth Sunday League fifty and  his
ninth  in  one-day  cricket  this season, and Adrian Dale rescued
Glamorgan with a run-a-ball fourth-wicket partnership of 50.

Robert Croft (43 not out) maintained the momentum, putting on  57
in eight overs before James was undone by a leg-stump yorker from
Prabhakar in the 37th over.

Durham, needing to score at 5.3 runs an over, lost  John   Morris
in  the  12th over, but the second-wicket pair settled into their
productive partnership, mainly nudging the  ball  into gaps   and
striking occasional boundaries.

Roseberry reached 50 with a six off Croft before Prabhakar   com-
pleted  his  first Sunday League half-century from 53 deliveries,
which included a six and four fours.

Morris switched his bowlers, but they were unable  to  stem   the
flow  of  runs on an easy-paced pitch, until Lefebvre and Barwick
returned to almost snatch an improbable victory.

Source :: Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
<END> Contributed by Gazza (G.Hunt@bath.ac.uk)