MATCH REPORT: Lancashire claim first win of 2026 One-Day Cup in dramatic victory in Leicester
Keaton Jennings made a brilliant 135 from 134 balls, Marcus Harris 71 from 46 and 17-year-old Joe Moores a career-best unbeaten 41 from 15 as Lancashire racked up 383 for four in their 50 overs, the second highest List A total in their history, to set up a 21-run victory over Leicestershire Foxes in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup.
After slumping to 22 for four, Ruan de Swardt’s List A career-best 126 off 116 balls, coupled with Hamza Shaikh’s 91 off 88, gave Leicestershire an outside chance of pulling off a remarkable win.
With Ben Cox (43 off 25) and Tom Scriven (39 not out off 24) chipping in as well, in falling short the Foxes were left to rue a poor performance in the field that saw five catches dropped, a costly missed run-out and 26 conceded in wides and no balls.
From 56 without loss after 10 overs after being put in, Lancashire powered to 139 for one at halfway, losing Matty Hurst for 22 when he gloved a short ball from Scriven, who held a good catch at mid-on as Bohannon departed at 178 for two.
It was the chances that got away that haunted the Foxes. Cox dropping Hurst on 20 was swiftly corrected. More costly was the run-out Josh Davey failed to complete when Jennings was sent back by Harris on 92.
The Australian was dropped by fine leg Josh Hull on six and backward point Jonny Tattersall on 16. He reached fifty from 37 deliveries, lofting two sixes each off Scriven and Ajaz Patel before ‘keeper Cox safely pouched a top-edge off De Swardt.
Harris added 101 for the third wicket with Jennings, who punished any errors in line and length in hitting 18 fours and was just four short of a List A career-best when Tattersall caught him at deep square leg.
Even then, the Foxes’ torture was not over as Moores and fellow teenager Rocky Flintoff shared five sixes, adding another 72 in the last five overs.
In reply, irrespective of the impressive way in which De Swardt and Shaikh rebuilt their innings, Leicestershire’s fate appeared sealed after just 33 balls, by which point they were 22 for four.
Stephen Eskinazi was leg before to Mitch Stanley, then Tom Bailey (3-48) bowled Ian Holland and Jonny Tattersall and had Rishi Patel caught behind in a superb opening spell.
But Shaikh, on his Grace Road debut after moving from Warwickshire, added 179 with De Swardt for the fifth wicket and looked odds on to follow his unbeaten century against Surrey at Guildford on Friday with another, hitting nine fours and three sixes, before he was undone looking for a second in three balls off off-spinner Arav Shetty.
De Swardt, in his final outing before Nick Kelly returns from international duty, completed his fourth List A hundred from 105 balls, marking the achievement by launching Shetty for two sixes in an over.
But after Cox and De Swardt holed out in the same over to left-arm spinner Charlie Barnard, any outside chance of a remarkable home win realistically disappeared.
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