FRIENDS PROVIDENT t20, Edgbaston:
Leicestershire 172-6 beat Warwickshire 140 by 32 runs
Match scorecard

Hodge has now hit 20 half centuries in his eight-year Twenty20 cricket career

Leicestershire got their faltering FP t20 campaign going with a 32-run win over Warwickshire at Edgbaston.

After three defeats on the bounce, the Foxes stormed back to make 172-6 before wrapping up victory by dismissing the home side for 140 in 16.5 overs.

Brad Hodge top scored with 54 in a throwback to his last Twenty20 fifty for the county on the same ground in the 2004 final against Surrey.

Will Jefferson then smashed 50 from 31 balls to put the visitors in charge.

In reply, a chaotic performance by the Bears began when England's Jonathan Trott was given out, caught low down at cover by James Taylor, on TV replay evidence.

And it then got worse as three of the home batsmen were run out by substitute Matthew Boyce.

This was all in sharp contrast to Leicestershire's progress to their highest Twenty20 total this season.

After rejoining the Foxes for this year's competition, Australian Hodge had hit only 38 runs in five innings before making 43 against Yorkshire at Grace Road on Sunday.

But, with form restored, he subdued Warwickshire's attack in successive partnerships of 71 with Jacques du Toit (40) and 73 in eight overs with the hard-hitting Jefferson.

It was only a third Twenty20 defeat of the summer in eight games for second-placed North Group title hopefuls Warwickshire, while Leicestershire's third win gives their quarter-final chances a boost.

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