International warm-up, Grace Road:
Leicestershire 182 - all out (62.3 overs)

Sulieman Benn took four for 31 to knock the stuffing out of Leicestershire

West Indies got their tour of England off to a bright start as they dismissed Leicestershire for 182 on the first day of the three-day tour match.

Spinner Sulieman Benn took 4-31 at Grace Road as an under-strength Leicestershire line-up struggled.

Leicestershire won the toss and decided to bat first on a flat-looking surface and were cruising towards lunch.

But Benn, 27, bowled Josh Cobb and then instigated a middle order collapse from which the home side never recovered.

The tourists were without captain Chris Gayle and strike bowler Fidel Edwards who were both on Indian Premier League duty while Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Jerome Taylor have been given extra time to overcome niggles.

But Benn shrugged off the loss of West Indies' established players to take a leading role in the first of three warm-up matches before the start of the Test series on 6 May.

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It was fast bowler Lionel Baker, who was due to play for Leicestershire this season as their overseas player before forcing his way into West Indies' tour squad, who claimed the early breakthrough by winning an lbw appeal against opener Tom New.

Cobb fell to Benn before lunch and he proceeded to remove opener Matthew Boyce (45), followed by stand-in captain Boeta Dippenaar and James Allenby, who both edged to first slip.

A weakened Leicestershire were missing Paul Nixon, Hylton Ackerman and Claude Henderson while they await the arrival of New Zealand overseas player Iain O'Brien.

And Jamaican medium-pacer Andrew Richardson claimed 3-43 to run through the lower order before Leicestershire's innings came to a shambolic conclusion when last man Alex Wyatt was run out attempting an unlikely second run before tea.

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