Wickets tumble between Leicestershire and Middlesex on a bowler-friendly first day at Leicester.
Career-best bowling from Ben Mike and loan signing Ben Green enabled Leicestershire to dismiss Middlesex for 86 as the opening day of their Vitality County Championship match saw 21 wickets fall in bowler-friendly conditions.
Leicestershire had extended their lead to 133 by reaching the close at 40-1 after Sol Budinger, caught off a top-edged pull, was out for the second time in the day. Both openers departed within the first seven overs. A rare failure from Rishi Patel, leg before half-forward to Roland-Jones for his first single-figure score of the season, preceded the departure of Budinger, who marked his first appearance of the season with two boundaries before edging Higgins to give Leus Du Plooy the first of three catches at second slip.
Louis Kimber followed his epic, record-breaking 243 against Sussex last week with a 15-ball duck, caught at backward point off a leading edge, before Green edged to second slip and Ben Cox feathered one behind. Mike found the edge to have Mark Stoneman caught at second slip in his first over and produced an inswinger missed by Sam Robson, before Green added to Middlesex’s problems.
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