Raine rules in difficulty to rain on Northants’ promo rampage
Northants won by 6 wicketsReportBen Raine ended up with 4 for 57 - Getty ImagesNorthants 199 for 8 (Proctor 82, Raine 4-54) lead Leicestershire 128 (Raine 57, Sanderson 5-39, Gleeson 5-49) by 71 runs
Ben Raine is a combative soul, a sort of Ben Stokes type without the England caps, the headings and the fondness for street theatre. Nearly solitarily, he has actually challenged the idea that Northants will pip Nottinghamshire for promo which Leicestershire are condemned to a winless season.Raine played age-group cricket with Stokes at Durham. Even on such days like this, he will most likely firmly insist that he would enjoy to be compared to him. He struck 59 to avoid a thrashing and after that took 4 wickets to welcome hopes of an improvement beyond belief. Ideally he followed up with an e...