One-Day Cup: Ed Barnard stars as Bears, Pears, Foxes, Durham, Derbyshire win

All-rounder Barnard was once again the Warwickshire hero at Chelmsford as the Bears recorded their highest successful List A run chase to beat Essex.

Nick Browne (75) and Charlie Allison (69) helped the hosts, who only won One-Day Cup game last summer, post a challenging 324-7.

But, on the same ground where he hit his previous career-best 165 in the County Championship in May, Barnard made his unbeaten 173 off 140 balls, also surpassing his previous List A score of 161, aided by Rob Yates (42), Will Rhodes (41) and Michael Burgess (59 not out) as last year’s semi-finalists won with 14 balls to spare.

Leicestershire had the weather to thank as an extended rain-break left Nottinghamshire needing to come back out and score 55 runs from just 23 balls.

India Test star Ajinkya Rahane enjoyed a debut innings of 71 for the Foxes, supplemented by captain Lewis Hill (81) and Sol Budinger (75) before some late big hitting from Ben Cox and Ben Mike took them to 369-6.

But the rain intervened with Notts on 50-0 from 10.1 overs and, when they resumed after a two-and-half-hour stoppage, the revised Notts target was 105, off just another 3.5 overs.

Ben Slater and debutant Freddie McCann were both retired not out but Tom Scriven quickly settled it with his first two balls as he claimed the wickets of Jack Haynes – lbw – and Lyndon James, caught on the mid-wicket boundary, before Notts ground to a halt on 89-6 – 16 runs short.