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County Championship: Rishi Patel and Liam Trevaskis knocks help Foxes start solidly against Sussex

Rishi Patel (left) and Peter Handscombe (right) touch gloves after reaching lunch against Sussex
Rishi Patel (left) and Peter Handscombe (right) shared a stand of 78 for the fourth wicket against Sussex on the opening day
Vitality County Championship Division One, Leicester (day one)
Leicestershire: 326-8; Patel 87, Trevaskis 82*, Handscomb 51; Hudson-Prentice 3-50
Sussex: Yet to bat
Leicestershire (2pts) lead Sussex (3pts) by 326 runs with two wickets remaining
Match scorecard

Leicestershire saw three batters make half-centuries as they finished day one of their County Championship Division Two clash with Sussex on 326-8 after losing the toss at Grace Road.

Rishi Patel – who made 1,075 Championship runs last summer – hit 12 fours and two sixes in a fluid 87, Australia’s Peter Handscomb contributed a steady 51 and all-rounder Liam Trevaskis was 82 not out on his Foxes county debut.

Sussex had the home side 63-3 midway through the morning session on a green-tinged pitch but were not able to press home their advantage.

They used eight different bowlers with Fynn Hudson-Prentice (3-50) the pick of them.

Patel and Marcus Harris put on 59 before Harris was caught behind for 24 off Ari Karvelas, with Louis Kimber exiting cheaply after having his off-stump uprooted by Hudson-Prentice shortly after.

Skipper Lewis Hill also fell to Hudson-Prentice next ball but Patel and Handscomb added 78 for the fourth wicket before the former fell five overs after lunch when he was tempted by a short ball from Danny Lamb and gloved a relatively easy leg-side catch to John Simpson behind the stumps.

Trevaskis provided solid support for Handscomb in a stand that added 65 for the fifth wicket and helped Ben Cox rebuild after the Australian was bowled by off-spinner Jack Carson, beaten in the flight attempting to slog-sweep.

He helped eke out a further 49 with Cox before the latter bottom-edged into his stumps and 43 with Ben Mike, who was caught-and-bowled off a leading edge after the second new ball had been taken.

Tom Scriven was well caught at midwicket as Hudson-Prentice picked up a third wicket inside the last four overs of the day.

Cox’s demise provided a wicket for Tom Clark, the opening bat who had not bowled his medium pace since September 2022 because of injury.

Report supplied by ECB Reporters’ Network.


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