Hampshire captain Shane Warne elects to field but it is Durham who get off to the best start in their first Lord's final Dynamos openers Michael di Venuto and Phil Mustard plunder 39 runs off the opening eight overs in overcast conditions Di Venuto's innings is brought to an abrupt end by a brilliant diving catch by Michael Carberry off Daren Powell for 12 And Mustard soon follows, leg before to James Bruce, after smashing 49 off just 38 balls to leave Durham 69-2 Shivnarine Chanderpaul joins Kyle Coetzer at the crease in the 13th over and helps push Durham to 100-2 by the 20th over Warne brings himself into the attack but disappears for 31 in six overs as the score moves past 150 in the 29th over Coetzer brings up his half century off just 64 balls an over later as the third-wicket partnership passes 100 He then smashes a huge six off Sean Ervine before being undone by a slower one which Warne gratefully pouches Chanderpaul reaches his 71st one-day half century but is run-out for 78 after a misunderstanding with Paul Collingwood Durham captain Dale Benkenstein keeps the scoreboard turning over at around a run-a-ball as they reach 250-4 Collingwood struggles to find any fluency though and Dimitri Mascarenhas takes a running catch to end his innings on 22 Benkenstein smashes 61 off 43 balls and Ottis Gibson adds 15 as Durham post a record 312-5 in a 50 over Lord's final Hampshire's reply gets off to the worst possible start when Michael Lumb edges Gibson to di Venuto to depart first ball Incredibly, Sean Ervine follows to the same combination the very next ball to leave Hampshire 0-2 off two balls Kevin Pietersen's stay is slightly longer, but he too falls to Gibson, leg before for 12 and the Hawks are 17-3 John Crawley's 68 helps move Hampshire to 158-5 before rain intervenes and forces the players to return on Sunday Grey rainy skies ensure another late start to the action on Sunday with play finally getting under way at 1230 BST Hampshire's last five wickets fall in the space of eight overs as Durham complete a convincing 125-run victory
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