Naik takes eight but Red Rose complete victory

* Head Coach Andrew McDonald spoke to BBC Radio Leicester’s Richard Rae after the game, the interview is available HERE. Thanks to Graham Hardcastle for his hard work today again too.

Jigar Naik collected a career-best 8-179 from 44.3 overs but Leicestershire lost to Lancashire by an innings and 157 runs on the third day of the LV=CC match at Emirates Old Trafford.

Off-spinner Naik claimed all of the six Lancashire wickets to fall today during a 9.3-over spell which cost him 53 runs.

But Ashwell Prince, Arron Lilley and Kyle Jarvis all starred as Lancashire secured a 23-point win to stretch their lead at the top of Division Two.

Prince completed a fourth century of the season during a frenetic opening session which saw Lancashire score 169 runs in 29 overs and lose their remaining wickets to advance their first innings from 314-4 to 483 all out. The first five Lancashire wickets all shared in excess of 50.

The veteran South African batsman added 30 to his overnight tally of 74, while off-spinner Lilley’s 59 off 41 balls marked his second successive fifty after one against Derbyshire at Southport last month.

While Prince is the country’s leading Championship run-scorer with 939 runs, Jarvis is the highest wicket-taker with 55 from nine matches after he picked up 5-44 from 15.4 overs as Leicestershire were dismissed for 119 in the second innings.

Naik, who was unfortunate not to pick up more wickets yesterday, collected deserved reward as he eclipsed the 7-96 snared at Surrey in 2010.

The off-spinner had Alex Davies (29) caught by Charlie Shreck at mid-on, James Faulkner (8) held at slip by Andrea Agathangelou and Prince stumped by Niall O’Brien for 104 off 171 balls having brought up his century off 167.

Naik went on to claim two wickets in two balls in the 123rd over as Tom Bailey (27, 20b) went the same way as Prince before Jarvis (0) was bowled by one that turned a long way. A third stumping of the innings followed as Lilley's bright knock came to an end.

Lilley continued his good day by taking three wickets in 13 balls shortly before tea as Leicestershire, faced with a first-innings deficit of 276, slipped to 90-6 inside 32 overs. The young spinner finished with 4-28 from 15 overs in support of paceman Jarvis.

Former Zimbabwe seamer Jarvis trapped O’Brien (10) lbw and bowled Angus Robson (27) with an in-ducker as he offered no shot, leaving he score at 47-2 in the 12th over. Australia all-rounder Faulkner had captain Mark Cosgrove (4) caught at deep point by Lilley in the 19th with 58 on the board.

Lilley then had Umar Akmal (20) caught behind by Davies on the sweep, with the ball ricocheting up off the batsman’s boot, Ned Eckersley (27) caught at first slip by Paul Horton and Ben Raine (0) held by Prince at second slip, the latter two in the 32nd over.

County were 93-6 off 35 overs at tea and Lancashire completed their win in the first hour after the interval. Jarvis trapped Naik (3) lbw and bowled Taylor (0) with successive balls in the 41st over, Lilley had Andrea Agathangelou (18) caught behind in the 48th before Jarvis got Shreck (0) leg before in the next over.

Leicestershire bowling figures: Sheikh 16-4-64-0, Raine 20-2-53-1, Naik 44.3-7-179-8, Shreck 29-7-82-0, Taylor 14-5-77-1, Agathangelou 1-0-5-0.