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Short fires for Durham in T20 Blast

The Australia opener showed his class with a blistering knock for Durham

An onslaught from D'Arcy Short has guided Durham to a dominant eight-wicket victory over Leicestershire in their T20 Blast clash.

The Western Australian was relentless in his innings, blasting Leicestershire's bowlers to all parts of the ground before he fell for a brilliant knock of 70 at Emirates Riverside in Durham on Wednesday.

The 28-year-old Short and teammate Graham Clark refused to let the visitors settle in an opening stand of 118.

That allowed the home side to ease over the line and record their third win in five games in the county Twenty20 competition.

Leicestershire's batsmen struggled to time the ball and their total of 7-142 was never going to be enough once Short found his stride.

The Australian blasted bowler Will Davis over the top for the first six of the innings before dispatching Gavin Griffiths for four consecutive boundaries to push the run rate beyond 11 runs per over.

Short reached his half-century from 26 deliveries, with his tenth boundary of the innings, leaving Durham in a dominant position at the end of the powerplay.

Clark maintained the pressure on the Leicestershire bowlers at the other end with a six of his own over the head of Davis into the stand.

Short fell going for one big strike too many, missing a straight delivery from Callum Parkinson.

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However Clark kept the momentum going and scored his first Blast fifty of the term.

Although Ben Raine was dismissed cheaply, Durham cantered over the line with 32 balls remaining.

Leicestershire slumped to their fourth defeat in the competition and will require a special effort in their remaining matches to have any hope of reaching the knockout stages.