Dashing Durham setting the pace

By Benji Moorehead

With 11 of the first 16 games in Division Two finishing in a sodden stalemate, coupled with points for draws being reduced from eight to five, four-day victories have become as priceless as a dry afternoon this season.
Durham have got two of them, signs that the Riversiders are recalibrating after years of hardship. Sussex, who have undergone something of an overhaul over the last two summers, have also bagged a win, equalling their tally for the whole of last season.
But most popular, surely, was Leicestershire’s extraordinary chase of nigh-on 400 at Headingley in round ...

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