FORMER Hampshire bowler Kabir Ali starred with the bat when making his Lancashire debut today.
But Ali’s heroics – he thrashed a quickfire half-century – were in vain as Durham clinched a 39-run win in the Yorkshire Bank 40 match at Chester-le-Street.
Lancashire were 162 for eight in reply to Durham’s 297 for nine when Kabir went to the crease to join Jordan Clark.
They added 45 in four overs before Clark departed for a career-best 72, then Stephen Parry shared a last-wicket stand of 51 in six overs.
Kabir thrashed five sixes, four of them off Chris Rushworth, in his 24-ball half-century before he was bowled for 59 by Ben Stokes with the total on 258.
Lancashire were all out with 3.5 overs left and last year's semi-finalists now have little chance of progressing after being outplayed by Durham for the second time in this season's competition.
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