Peter Handscomb is doing his hopes of creating Australia’s Ashes group the world of fine in England.
The 31-year-old Victorian guided his new county Leicestershire to their maiden county championship victory in 19 months after following up his first-innings century in opposition to Yorkshire with a match-winning unbeaten 68 at Headingley on Sunday.
Leicestershire pulled off the second-biggest run chase of their historical past, overhauling their goal of 389 with simply three wickets and 7 balls to spare.
Handscomb’s coolness within the denouement was instrumental within the triumph after Rishi Patel’s 125 and Colin Ackermann’s 72 had underpinned the chase.
The guests nonetheless wanted 28 off the final three overs, with Handscomb bludgeoning Ben Coad for six and No.9 Chris Wright clattering 5 fours in 9 deliveries to provide Leicestershire a primary championship triumph since they beat Sussex in September 2021.
Title favourites Yorkshire, who had amassed an enormous 517 of their first innings, final misplaced at Headingley to Leicestershire in a first-class match in 1910.
Handscomb, who had been dropped on 41 within the first innings earlier than occurring to make 112, ought to have been out for 2 after tea on Sunday when Yorkshire skipper Adam Lyth spilled one at first slip off Dom Bess.
Handscomb’s coolness beneath stress got here to the fore with Leicestershire 7-327 within the 78th over, nonetheless needing 62 extra, as he got here along with Wright for the game-clinching 65 partnership in eight overs.
With PA
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