Lewis Hill has led his Leicestershire aspect to the highest of the early-season Division Two deskLV= County Championship Division Two, Uptonsteel County Floor, Leicester (day 4):Leicestershire 451-9 dec: Hill 162*, Ackermann 114; Chappell 4-115Derbyshire 254-7: Visitor 92, Madsen 75; Wright 4-38Leicestershire (12 pts) drew with Derbyshire (9 pts)Scorecard
Centuries from Colin Ackermann and captain Lewis Hill, adopted by a superb spell of seam bowling by Chris Wright, noticed Leicestershire safe the bonus factors they wanted to go to the highest of Division Two of their severely rain-affected championship draw in opposition to Derbyshire.
No play had been attainable on the earlier two days, and with the pitch nonetheless comparatively new and the outfield nonetheless very damp, there was no critical prospect of Hill and reverse quantity Leus Du Plooy agreeing to arrange a final-day run-chase for the guests.
As a substitute it was a case of maximising the bonus-point return, and, led by Hill, whose undefeated 162 was his first-class greatest, Leicestershire did simply that earlier than leaving Derbyshire 48 overs of batting.
The guests responded in type by means of Brooke Visitor (92) and Wayne Madsen (75), earlier than Wright’s 4-38 helped the Foxes safe an additional two bowling bonus factors.
Resuming with their partnership already value 141, Ackermann and Hill continued the place they left off on Thursday.
Ackermann, who had made 67 and 72 in Leicestershire’s opening-match victory over Yorkshire at Headingley, appeared again to his appreciable greatest, hitting 18 fours in reaching his century off 165 balls earlier than falling leg earlier than to Anuj Dal.
As on day one, Derbyshire’s seamers struggled to bowl a persistently threatening line and size, with the honourable exception of Zak Chappell, whose endeavour was rewarded when he had Peter Handscomb caught at second slip – certainly one of 4 catches within the innings for Madsen.
Chappell went on to select up the wickets of Rehan Ahmed, Wright and Michael Finan to make sure Derbyshire picked up three bowling bonus factors.
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