A uperb spell of bowling by Worcestershire’s left-arm seamer Jack Shantry sent MCC Oxford Universities slipping to a 130-run defeat in the Parks on Friday.
Shantry produced career-best figures of 7-60 off 22.3 overs, as the students, set an unlikely 339 for victory, succumbed for 208.
Four of Shantry’s victims were trapped lbw as the county cruised to a comfortable victory.
Worcestershire started the third and final day at 80-0 in the second innings, an overall lead of 220.
Despite losing a wicket in the first over, they sped along at nearly five runs per over.
Neil Pinner hit 80 off 107 balls, while Ben Cox added a rapid unbeaten half-century before the declaration came at 210-2.
Oxford lost Sam Agarwal for a duck, but Banbury’s Lloyd Sabin batted well for 30.
The main resistance came in a fourth-wicket stand of 76 between Freddie Coleman and Tom Fell, before Shantry broke the stand.
Coleman top-scored with 46 while Conelis Bodenstein added 27 late on.
The students were eventually all out for 208 in the 60th over.
Worcestershire wicket-keeper Cox claimed two more catches to take his tally of victims in the match to nine following his spectacular first-innings haul.
This was Oxford MCCU’s second first-class defeat of the season, having lost a tight match against County champions Warwickshire last month.
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