Pettini powers up as Leicestershire make a flying start

By Luke Baker
NORTH ROUND-UP

Dazzling: Mark Pettini

LEICESTERSHIRE may be rank outsiders for the One-Day Cup but if Mark Pettini continues to play like a man possessed, then they might just continue to surprise.
Pettini plundered 159 off 135 balls – the highest List A score by a Leicestershire batsman against a firstclass county – as Warwickshire were battered by 103 runs at Grace Road.
Ably assisted by Tom Wells (67) and Aadil Ali (52), the man who had the one-day captaincy taken away from him over the winter helped his side to a mammoth 363-7 from their 50 overs – the...

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