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ScorecardJosh Cobb gave Leicestershire a handy first-innings lead•Getty Images
The top-against-bottom Division Two clash betweenLeicestershire and Worcestershire is well poised after the latter ended with a35-run lead at the end of day two.A 104-run partnership between Josh Cobb and Ramnaresh Sarwan and a last-wicketstand of 38 in five overs took Leicestershire to a total of 278 and a lead of 41runs after both had batted once.They looked on course for something much better than that when Cobb and Sarwanwere together but both were out in the space of two overs, Cobb for 63 andSarwan for 46 as Leicestershire slipped to 162 for 5.But some lusty hitting by Nathan Buck and Charlie Shreck added some valuableruns and frustrated the Worcestershire attack, for whom Charlie Morris took 4for 76 and Jack Shantry 3 for 66.Top-of-the-table Worcestershire then faced 27 overs and reached stumps on 76for 1 to lead by 35 runs. Buck had Matt Pardoe caught at slip in the eighthover but Daryl Mitchell and Tom Fell shared a stand of 58 to put Worcestershireright back in the game.For Leicestershire, though, it was an odd sort of day, one on which it wasdifficult to decide whether their glass was half full or half empty. Startingtheir overnight 58 for 2, Greg Smith was trapped lbw by Shantry in the secondover of the day without addition to the total.But Sarwan and Cobb kept the Worcestershire attack at bay for the rest of thesession scoring 98 runs off 29 overs in largely untroubled fashion. Cobb, withsome powerful driving through the cover area, reached 50 with an even bettershot – a straight six off Saeed Ajmal, and at lunch the home side looked in goodshape at 156 for 3.Cobb smacked the second ball after the interval to the cover boundary to raisethe century stand before the game was turned on it’s head in the space of fivedeliveries. Cobb, attempting to run a ball from Shantry to the third manboundary only succeeded in providing a catch to third slip and was out for 63off 108 balls having hit nine fours and a six.In the next over Sarwan top edged a hook shot against Morris and skied a catchto deep fine leg having made 46 off 122 balls.It meant Leicestershire had let slip an opportunity to take a firm grip on thegame and Worcestershire came back strongly. Joe Leach bagged the wickets ofNiall O’Brien and Dan Redfern, making his Leicestershire debut, and the hostsslumped to 240 for 9.But Buck hit an unbeaten 25 and Shreck scored 19 to give Leicestershire asecond batting point and a 41 run lead before Worcestershire finished the day 35runs ahead with one down in their second innings, with Mitchell (44 not out)standing firm alongside Fell (24 no).
