Worcestershire 78 for 4 path Durham 244 (Robinson 55, Finch 3-37, Holder 3-47) by 166 runs
The England Lions keeper was chargeable for a partial restoration after Durham had subsided to 141 for 7 halfway via the afternoon session.
Former West Indies captain Holder, who is on the market for the opening 5 Championship matches, had bowled an impressed spell of 8-2-26-3 to take away David Bedingham, Graham Clark and Paul Coughlin put up lunch. However Robinson went on the offensive to such an extent that his half-century got here up in solely 41 balls with three sixes and 5 fours.
Ben Raine and Matthew Potts supplied helpful decrease order assist after which made early inroads with the ball however Jake Libby dug in for an unbeaten 35.
Worcestershire have been again taking part in first-class cricket at Chester Street for the primary time in 4 years due to the sequence of eight floods which have engulfed New Street this winter. No less than the primary two residence Championship matches after Worcestershire’s promotion with Durham from Division Two are being staged at Kidderminster.
Groundstaff are hoping for a dry spring to boost hopes of taking part in the third residence match towards Nottinghamshire – starting at Might 24 – on the county’s headquarters.
Each side have been pressured into modifications due to harm setbacks. Worcestershire’s in-form batter Kashif Ali was dominated out with a again harm suffered throughout coaching, whereas Durham tempo bowler Scott Boland suffered a foot harm in the course of the drawn sport with Warwickshire at Edgbaston. Brydon Carse was additionally unavailable on account of his match play administration schedule.
Play obtained underway half an hour late and Durham captain Scott Borthwick opted to bat on his thirty fourth birthday because the Dukes ball returned to the bowlers’ armoury. But it surely was not a cheerful anniversary for Borthwick as the house aspect struck two early blows.
Borthwick had failed to bother the scorers when a supply within the first over from Joe Leach beat his outdoors edge and hit the highest of off stump. And it grew to become 19 for two when Alex Lees pushed ahead to Nathan Smith and fell to a low catch by Holder away to his proper at second slip.
Colin Ackermann had an escape on 18 when he flicked Holder off his legs and noticed the possibility put down at midwicket. The third-wicket pair of Ackermann and David Bedingham needed to battle onerous for runs though the latter greeted Matthew Waite’s entrance into the assault with successive cowl drives for 4.
Durham reached 89 for two at lunch however Holder switched to the pavilion finish and struck within the first over again. Bedingham on 38 went to chop the previous West Indies captain however solely succeeded in chopping onto his stumps.
Leach bowled a probing put up lunch spell and was rewarded when Ackermann (47) went lbw to a supply angled again in.
Holder was consistently asking questions and struck once more when Graham Clark was lbw working to leg. Adam Finch then changed Leach and instantly tasted some success as Bas de Leede performed an identical shot and perished in the identical style.
Robinson determined assault was the perfect coverage and obtained wonderful assist from Ben Raine throughout a stand of 61 in 8.4 overs. The Durham wicketkeeper struck Waite for 2 straight sixes in an over and raced to his half-century. However Waite had the ultimate say when Robinson pushed ahead and keeper Gareth Roderick held onto a low catch.
Finch wrapped up the innings with two wickets in three balls as Raine high edged a pull via to Roderick and Callum Parkinson missed a full toss and was lbw.
However Worcestershire rapidly bumped into hassle towards the brand new ball assault of Raine and Matthew Potts. Raine had Roderick caught behind and membership captain Brett D’Oliveira provided no shot and was bowled by Potts.
Libby and Rob Jones initially dug in however then began to reel off a sequence of wonderful strokes. The stand was value 60 when Jones (32) pushed ahead to Coughlin and was lbw after which Adam Hose chopped the identical bowler onto his stumps.
