‘Cowardly’Durhamfoldas Abbas gets in the swing

By Richard Rae

High fives for two fives! Mohammad Abbas blew Durham away
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Embarrassed: Durham coach Jon Lewis

HEAD coach Jon Lewis described Durham’s performance as ’embarrassing’ but others used far stronger words after the visitors were bowled out twice in less than two sessions on the second day of a genuinely extraordinary match against Leicestershire.
A BBC Newcastle commentator went so far as to call some of the dismissals, as Durham were bowled out for the two lowest scores in their first-class history, as &ldq...

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