Champion County friendly match, Abu Dhabi:
MCC v Durham
CLOSE OF PLAY, DAY ONE: Durham 329-3
Match scorecard
Michael Di Venuto and Kyle Coetzer both hit centuries as Durham piled on the runs to take early charge of the season curtain-raiser against the MCC.
Di Venuto (131) and Coetzer (123no) made light work of the pink Kookaburra ball in the heat of Abu Dhabi as they shared an opening stand of 181.
Dale Benkenstein also made 41 as the county champions closed on 329-3.
As well as using a pink ball, the match at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium is being played partly under floodlights.
It is the first time the traditional curtain-raiser between the champions and the MCC is being played away from Lord's.
The match was switched so that the MCC and the International Cricket Council could trial the pink ball under floodlights with the long-term aim of introducing day-night Test matches.
But other than Jon Lewis beating Di Venuto with the fourth ball of the match there was little to trouble the Durham openers early on.
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Di Venuto did the bulk of the early scoring on an excellent batting track, the Australian bringing up his century less than an hour after lunch off 145 balls, including a six and 14 fours.
He had taken his boundary tally to 20 when he was eventually dismissed, stumped by James Foster after coming down the track to James Middlebrook.
Middlebrook struck a second time soon afterwards when Durham captain Will Smith chipped the off-spinner to Scott Newman, who took a juggling catch.
Benkenstein then added 92 with Coetzer before being bowled by Dean Cosker. Coetzer went on to complete his own century off 194 balls in 307 minutes, and batted through to the close with Ian Blackwell.
The MCC were dealt a blow before the start of the game when former England batsman Mark Ramprakash flew home for personal reasons.
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