All-rounder Dinesh Mongia played a pivotal role in the Leicestershire's thrilling 12-run victory against Worcestershire in the County Championship Division II match at Leicester.

Required to score just 141 to win, Worcestershire were bowled out for 128, after being relatively safe at 95 for four at one stage.

Mongia, who contributed 66 in Leicestershire's first innings score of 225 and 36 in the second innings, took two vital wickets after Ottis Gibson and Stuard Broad captured three wickets each.

Gibson's prey included Steven Davies, who hit his own wicket on 49. He actually trod on his own stumps as he stepped back to pull a short-pitched delivery.

That wicket opened the floodgates as Broad and Mongia ripped through the lower order.

There was even the run-out of Ray Price to aid Leicestershire's cause further as the ninth wicket fell with the score on 114.

Matt Mason then hit two boundaries as the match went to the wire, but when Mongia trapped last man Nadeem Malik lbw, the hosts could start celebrating.

For a while, it looked like Leicestershire would barely make Worcestershire bat again as they slumped to 174 for nine.

But Paul Nixon hit a brilliant 85 and featured in a vital partnership with last man Charl Willoughby which was worth 64.

India captain Sourav Ganguly [Images], despite producing an unbeaten 84 in Glamorgan's second innings score of 256 for three declared, ended up on the losing side.

In the Frizzell County Championship First Division match at Southgate, Middlesex produced an astonishing run chase to consign Glamorgan to their seventh championship defeat.

Glamorgan declared their second innings on 256 for three, leaving Middlesex to hit a highly improbable 406 from 80 overs.

But with Ed Smith and Owais Shah hitting centuries, and Ed Joyce adding a rapid unbeaten 70, Middlesex somehow got home with 13 balls to spare.

The Southgate wicket yielded nearly 1,700 runs in all, with just 14 wickets falling throughout the four days.

Smith hit 20 boundaries in his 145, which occupied just 171 deliveries. Shah smashed four sixes and 12 fours in his 155, which came off 202 balls.

But the quickest scorer was the brilliant Joyce, who came in at number four and became the first man in the country to pass 1,000 runs for the season. Irfan Pathan [Images] was 4 not out.