{"id":43307,"date":"2026-06-07T05:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/t20-blast-northants-beat-durham-for-fifth-straight-win\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:06:20","slug":"t20-blast-northants-beat-durham-for-fifth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/t20-blast-northants-beat-durham-for-fifth-straight-win\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast: Northants beat Durham for fifth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Willey then struck with the first ball of Durham&#8217;s chase as Graham Clark loosely guided a back-of-a-length ball to backward point, though McKinney was quickly into his stride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He twice pushed Willey back down the ground for early boundaries before taking two fours and a six off McSweeney&#8217;s off-spin as 16 came off the fourth over. The six, over long-on, thudded into the bottom floor of the Riverside&#8217;s Media Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, excellent Ben Sanderson (2-26) struck with successive deliveries in the fifth over as the score became 41-3. He uprooted Alex Lees&#8217; leg-stump before trapping Ollie Robinson lbw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And when McKinney skewed Zaib&#8217;s first ball of left-arm spin to backward point to fall for 33, the Steelbacks held sway at 53-4 in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McSweeney then had a hand in the next two wickets as the score fell to 90-6 in the 14th over. He had Colin Ackermann caught at cover and ran Aldridge out at the striker&#8217;s end with a throw running in from deep mid-wicket to prevent a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will Rhodes and Raine tried to recover, only for the latter to be bowled by Sales &#8211; 113-7 after 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The target became 24 off the last two overs and 14 off the last with Rhodes on 29 and T20 debutant bowler James Minto at the crease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nerveless Sales had Rhodes caught at mid-off for 31 in the last.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c4gyzeyxy2lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willey then struck with the first ball of Durham&#8217;s chase as Graham Clark loosely guided a back-of-a-length ball to backward point, though McKinney was quickly into his stride. He twice pushed Willey back down the ground for early boundaries before taking two fours and a six off McSweeney&#8217;s off-spin as 16 came off the fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43309,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43307\/revisions\/43309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}