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Durham maintained their complete domination of their County Championship match against Lancashire on a day when David Bedingham made the highest individual score in the county’s first-class history.<\/b><\/p>\n
Bedingham’s 279 surpassed Martin Love’s 273 against Hampshire in 2003 and his innings was the bedrock of his team’s 573-9 declared.<\/p>\n
Facing a deficit of 345, Lancashire ended the day poorly placed on 155-4, with Matthew Potts taking three of the wickets. Keaton Jennings’ side therefore need another 190 runs to avoid their fourth innings defeat of the season.<\/p>\n
It was a day when other records tumbled at the Riverside as Bedingham and Colin Ackermann’s 424-run fifth-wicket partnership set a new record for any wicket for Durham, eclipsing the 334 put on by Stewart Hutton and Michael Roseberry against Oxford University in The Parks in 1996.<\/p>\n
It was also the eighth-highest fifth-wicket stand in the history of first-class cricket and the second highest first-class partnership for any wicket against Lancashire.<\/p>\n
The mammoth stand was eventually broken by the leg-spinner Luke Wells, who trapped Ackermann in front for 186 in the fourth over after lunch.<\/p>\n
Ackermann also shares former club Le4icestershire’s record partnership – an unbroken 477 for the fifth wicket with Wiaan Mulder against Sussex two years ago.<\/p>\n
Wells enjoyed more success when he had Ben Raine caught for 17 and Bas de Leede stumped by Matty Hurst for four.<\/p>\n
Tom Hartley took his only wicket of the innings by dismissing Potts for four and the declaration was applied when Bedingham was caught off Wells.<\/p>\n
He had batted 489 minutes, faced 359 balls and hit 27 fours and a six.<\/p>\n
Wells finished with respectable figures of 4-69, but was soon out in the middle again when he opened Lancashire’s second innings with Jennings. <\/p>\n
However, their alliance lasted only nine balls when the Lancashire skipper was caught off Potts for a duck.<\/p>\n
Josh Bohannon joined Wells and guided Lancashire to 49-1 at tea but the visitors lost two wickets in five balls immediately after the resumption. <\/p>\n
Wells (29) was bowled by Callum Parkinson and George Bell was caught behind by Potts for a two-ball duck.<\/p>\n
Bohannon and Hurst then added 73 for the fourth wicket before the former nicked a Potts delivery to first slip for a patient 56.<\/p>\n
Hurst ended the day unbeaten on 43 as he and George Balderson (14 not out) ensured no more wickets fell before close of play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n