SOMERSET passed up a good opportunity to inflict a third successive AXA League defeat on Leicestershire after needing only 11 off the last two overs with three wickets in hand.

That became 10 off the last over, bowled by Jimmy Ormond, with the last pair together. Keith Parsons, faced with the task of having to hit a six off the last ball, holed out at long-on, where Dominic Williamson took the catch inches inside the boundary rope.

Ormond's return of four for 32 was a Sunday League best, and proved instrumental in Leicestershire's victory for he had instigated an early-order mini-collapse by taking three wickets in five balls.

On a slow Grace Road pitch that was a disappointing one for a limited-overs match, Leicestershire found that forcing the pace against Somerset's all-seam attack was difficult. So, too, did the visitors, once the hardness of the new ball had worn off.

Somerset reached 48 for one in the 10th over before Ormond's triple breakthrough. Paul Nixon's second catch was his 100th in Sunday League cricket.