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Post by Admin on May 31, 2019 10:58:22 GMT
 v  Venue  Aigburth Cricket Ground in Liverpool, England, is the home of Liverpool Cricket Club. The club was founded in 1807 and is the oldest amateur sports club in Merseyside.[2] The ground hosted its maiden first-class cricket match in 1881, a fixture between Lancashire and Cambridge University.[3] Designed by Thomas Harnett Harrison and built in 1880, the pavilion is the oldest at a first-class cricket ground.[4][5] The first Women's Cricket World Cup was held in England in 1973.[6] During the tournament Aigburth hosted its only Women's One Day International, a match between International XI Women and Trinidad and Tobago Women.[7] The West Indies cricket team toured England in 1984 and played a tour match against Lancashire at Aigburth. A 7,633-strong crowd watched the match.[5] Lancashire lost by 56 runs, and Gordon Greenidge scored 186 while opening the batting.[8] The innings was the second of three one-day centuries scored at the ground and remains the highest score in the format at Aigburth, and Greenidge's highest score.[9][10] While Old Trafford Cricket Ground was undergoing a renovation in 2011, Lancashire played more cricket at Aigburth, playing five matches at the ground.[2] The move away from Old Trafford coincided with Lancashire winning the County Championship for the first time since 1950, and Lancashire won four out of their six matches at Aigburth.[11] The ground has hosted 198 first-class matches to 2014[3], eighteen List A matches to 2017[12] and, as confirmed by the Wisden and Playfair annuals, two Twenty20 matches to 2017. Two days by the Mersey for me as Lancashire start their home game travels, not been for a couple of years. The venue brings back warm memories of 2011 and basically playing the entire season and look what happened won the Championship. Going back to the 60's recall Granada showing a match from Aigburth as a live game on TV think it was Glamorgan in those days both the Beeb abd Granada used to show County 3 day games . Onto next week would love to see us play two spinners but suspect they will go with four pacemen again, 18 points clear at teh top and this should weather providing give us another win agaianst a Leicester side who have struggled for far too long sadly most of their better players now play for Nottinghamshire. By good to see Paul Horton, Dearden and Lilley ex players as well as Gavin Griffiths. |
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Post by Admin on Jun 2, 2019 18:45:33 GMT
Head Coach Glen Chapple has named a 15 man squad for Lancashire's Specsavers County Championship clash against Leicestershire which starts tomorrow at Liverpool CC.
Alex Davies is named in the squad after returning from injury for the Second XI last week. The wicket keeper also played for Darwen CC at the weekend.
James Anderson is rested with Graham Onions coming back into the squad.
MATCH PREVIEW
Lancashire Squad
Dane Vilas (c)
Tom Bailey
Josh Bohannon
Steven Croft
Alex Davies
Richard Gleeson
Haseeb Hameed
Keaton Jennings
Rob Jones
Jake Lehmann
Liam Livingstone
Saqib Mahmood
Graham Onions
Matt Parkinson
Stephen Parry
Leicestershire CCC travel to Aigburth, Liverpool to face table-topping Lancashire CCC in the first outground fixture of the Specsavers County Championship campaign.
The Foxes travel on the back of a defeat at the Fischer County Ground at the hands of Derbyshire CCC, while Lancashire CCC drew against Gloucestershire CCC in a fixture affected by the weather at the College Ground, Cheltenham.
Head Coach Paul Nixon spoke ahead of the fixture. He said: “Lancashire are playing good cricket at the moment. They are a positive, confident team with a lot of good players and a lot of international cricketers. They have players like Keaton Jennings, Haseeb Hameed, Liam Livingstone, Jimmy Anderson and others.
“It is going to be tough, but we are not at Old Trafford - we are at an outground in Liverpool - they probably won’t like being at Liverpool as much as they would like to be at Old Trafford.
“It could be a good time to take them as we are hurting from the recent loss against Derbyshire and we have got to come back fighting. There's spirit and care in the dressing room and we want to put it right. To beat Lancashire at their place would be massive, and this team has the ability to do that.”
The fixture is the first for Leicestershire CCC this season to be played at an outground and Nixon is looking to use that to the Foxes’ benefit. “It is somewhere that they [Lancashire] do not play regularly,” he said.
“It is a good cricket pitch at Liverpool, it goes through with the new ball and there will be some pace and carry, generally it's a good pitch for batting on the second and third day, and then it can turn on the fourth day, so there is something for everyone.
“But Lancashire don't play there very often, so that's good for us in a way. When it is your home ground and you are playing there day in day out, you get used to the bounce, the surface, the view and the areas you can hit from. It takes a bit longer to settle into a game, so for us it takes a little bit away from the home advantage.”
However, there are factors that Leicestershire CCC need to take in account when travelling away from a side's normal HQ:
“We need to make sure that we enjoy the experience of being at an outground like where we all started, but that we also keep our professional integrity, mindset and focus,” said Nixon.
Despite the disappointment in the defeat against Derbyshire CCC, Nixon took the positives from the performance into the fixture against Lancashire CCC. “The bowling group were outstanding," he said.
“It was a low scoring game on a good pitch, and the way that the bowlers bowled, held the scoreboard and the lack of four-balls bowled was fantastic.
“The way Hassan Azad played when he batted was another positive. He carried his bat through and played beautifully again in the second innings.”
The Foxes come into the fixture on the back of two results that were hard to take, after the weather at Lord’s ended the game prematurely in a draw, and Leicestershire CCC in a commanding position prior to the defeat against Derbyshire CCC, but Nixon feels that the team is in a good place.
He said: “The dressing room is frustrated of course. There is a lot of hurt going around at the moment – but that is good, that is what we want because that shows that they care. It is good to show emotion, it is healthy.
“Then we go away and reflect and then we come back, get our head around things and gain momentum to carry into the next game with a good, positive frame of mind.
“We have a passionate dressing room when we get beat, and we have a passionate dressing room when we win – we take the positives and negatives as a team and we move forward as a team.
“We have a small squad and we have to keep that gel together, and make sure that we are all in a good place so we can go and take that anger and frustration out against Lancashire.”
Leicestershire CCC has named a 13-man squad for the game at Lancashire CCC with opener Sam Evans, all-rounder Neil Dexter, wicket-keeper Harry Swindells and slow left arm spinner Callum Parkinson all in contention.
The game comes too soon for bowling all-rounders Tom Taylor and Ben Mike, who both miss out again through injuries picked up in the recent match against Middlesex CCC at Lord's.
Leicestershire CCC (from 13): Horton (capt), Abbas, Ackermann, Azad, Cosgrove, Davis, Dearden, Dexter, Evans, Klein, Parkinson, Swindells (wk), Wright.
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Post by Admin on Jun 3, 2019 18:55:03 GMT
Left slightly before the end having seen Bohannon play what I thought was the innings of the dfay looked in excellent touch. Uncontested toss, lost Jennings early on to a wonder piece of fielding by Azad at short leg running out the opener. Hameed, Jones and Lehmann never really looked in although played some decent shots, Hameed out in usual fashion. Livi and Croft rescued the situation century partnership, Ctoft looked in no trouble whatsoever until Parki's brother got him to play on just after Livi had gone. Livingstone IMV should have gone on to make a really big century but always looked like a wicket when he went airborne, got away with ball dropping between fielders was also dropped when about 80. Vilas looked in good touch then caught behind.  Leicester bowled well early on but in the latter stages of the Croft/Livingstone partnership seemed to be basically waiting for a mistake. Thought the young keeper did well.  Forecast not great tomorrow to say the least suspect though we may have enough  |
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Post by lancsdes on Jun 3, 2019 19:22:07 GMT
Thoroughly enjoyed the day. Livingstone played a couple of rash shots but generally built his innings well , his second fifty being much quicker than first. Agree he should have scored 150 . Croft batted well I thought; I don’t understand how he gets any transfer of weight at all with that stance with legs so far apart but he does.
Bohannon, despite his poor recent form for Ormskirk looked good.
The ground was a delight as you can see from Admin’s photos though I understand there was a bit of a shambles with members not being able to buy scorecards in the first hour. People paying on the gate were able to buy a scorecard at the same time. Two members independently reported that to me.
I had a problem with my Liverpool membership too which was sorted.The club say they are hopeful it has been permanently resolved now though I’ve heard that a few times.
Not going tomorrow ( irrespective of weather). Are you going Wednesday Admin?
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Post by apm51054 on Jun 4, 2019 7:07:51 GMT
Thoroughly enjoyed the day. Livingstone played a couple of rash shots but generally built his innings well , his second fifty being much quicker than first. Agree he should have scored 150 . Croft batted well I thought; I don’t understand how he gets any transfer of weight at all with that stance with legs so far apart but he does. Bohannon, despite his poor recent form for Ormskirk looked good. The ground was a delight as you can see from Admin’s photos though I understand there was a bit of a shambles with members not being able to buy scorecards in the first hour. People paying on the gate were able to buy a scorecard at the same time. Two members independently reported that to me. I had a problem with my Liverpool membership too which was sorted.The club say they are hopeful it has been permanently resolved now though I’ve heard that a few times. Not going tomorrow ( irrespective of whether). Are you going Wednesday Admin? No sadly working |
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Post by apm51054 on Jun 4, 2019 12:00:02 GMT
449 all out Bohannon stranded on 98 not out
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Post by apm51054 on Jun 4, 2019 15:08:10 GMT
Play abandoned for the day
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Post by Admin on Jun 5, 2019 18:04:44 GMT
Here's what the BEEB says
Specsavers County Championship Division Two, Aigburth, Liverpool (day three)
Lancashire 449: Livingstone 114, Bohannon 98*; Klein 3-89
Leicestershire 288: Klein 87, Cosgrove 70; Gleeson 4-58 & 5-1 (f/o)
Leicestershire (2 pts) trail Lancashire (8 pts) by 156 runs
Scorecard
Lancashire gave themselves a chance of victory on the final day against Leicestershire after making their opponents follow on at Liverpool.
The Foxes started their first innings on the third morning and were bowled out for 288, 161 behind.
They looked set to concede a bigger deficit at 150-7, but Dieter Klein's 87 helped them to recover.
Leicestershire then had to bat four overs and lost nightwatchman Chris Wright for nought to close on 5-1.
They will resume on Thursday still needing 156 to avoid an innings defeat.
Not been but never know why sides opening innings with night watchmen never works, good chance of winning this one althouhgh looks like we may have to be patient tomorrow
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Post by lancsdes on Jun 5, 2019 21:59:12 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2019 12:49:30 GMT
Gwynne will take a bit of getting used to but see how he goes, Des, been glorious in Blackpool this morning
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Post by lancsdes on Jun 6, 2019 14:37:23 GMT
Yes, one of the rare instances today where we would probably had a better chance of playing at Old Trafford judging by the line of the rain as on the BBC Look North West forecast . Having said that, there have clearly been amazing improvements to the drainage at Aigburth. I was basing my assessment of the likelihood of play on a 20 minute storm which I saw in the 2012 game against Somerset. The first rain today was as bad as that and that was the end of the day that time.
I decided to give up today at the second lot of rain as I thought the best chance of a Lancs miracle was for me to go home. I really do have an appalling record on cricket based holidays. Even when it doesn’t rain I see three days reduced to one like at Taunton last year and Worcester 2011 by poor wickets and batmen who just can’t play. At a rough guess two thirds to three quarters of my cricketing holidays have been ruined by rain.
Talking to an ex committee member away from the ground, I was gratified to obtain agreement that Allott is an arrogant oaf. Allott’s quoted remark at the AGM re the Sedbergh game that they didn’t want to overload Aigburth is apparently wrong ; it is Aigburth who don’t want the second game although, if Lancs did invest in the drainage, I cannot applaud Aigburth for taking that line.
Anyway, none of you have any need to worry if you are going to an away game in future that I might be going to the full game. I’ve had enough . I am getting like One Foot in the Grave but it’s bloody awful getting round the country anyway and , having a wonderful micro pub run by a friend 8 minutes walk away, all life is there. It is one place where I never expect disappointment.
Thanks to the likes of Oldham Exile and Werneth ( by no means exhaustive list) for providing great company down south ; hope I get to see you up north.
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Post by apm51054 on Jun 6, 2019 17:05:21 GMT
Never mind Des, went to a micro pub at Hest Bank right next to the main railway line, double fun as for the game ended in a draw Leicestershire batted 98 overs for 152-5
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Post by lancsdes on Jun 6, 2019 17:11:04 GMT
I don’t claim to know much about cricket wickets other than spotting patterns of results but is it possible that we now have the reverse of the situation we had in 2011 where Aigburth was a result pitch and Old Trafford in those days had completely dead wickets?
Even in 2012, when we were so awful, I remember a couple of games against Gloucestershire and Middlesex where we were unable to force results on dead Aigburth wickets. I cannot remember a lot about the more recent ones; there haven’t been many . I know we lost narrowly to Notts a few years ago but I also get the impression that quite a few of the second 11 games I’ve seen have been pretty dead wickets.
Anyway, got that one right coming home. 140 runs in a day ; no thanks.
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Post by chris on Jun 6, 2019 19:21:31 GMT
140 runs in a day ; no thanks. absolutely, right.
Ludicrous bowling figures from Livingstone. He has undoubtedly improved as a bowler but 36 overs for 40 runs 17 maidens. Ridiculous. It's enough to make me look forward to the next one day game. |
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