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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2021 18:30:43 GMT
116-4 15
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2021 18:53:19 GMT
142-8 20
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2021 19:23:07 GMT
42-0 5
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2021 19:44:54 GMT
Cruising 93-0 10
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2021 20:09:06 GMT
144-2 won easily
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2021 7:33:46 GMT
Lancashire Lightning 144 for 2 (Allen 66, Jennings 54*) beat Northamptonshire Steelbacks 142 for 8 (Keogh 56, Hurt 3-22) by eight wickets
New Zealand opener Finn Allen made his third fifty in 11 Vitality Blast innings this season as Lancashire Lighting thrashed Northamptonshire Steelbacks by eight wickets at Emirates Old Trafford.
Allen made 66 off 37 balls with seven fours and three sixes as his side overhauled the Steelbacks' moderate total of 142 for 8 with 26 balls to spare.
The result keeps Lightning's hopes of qualifying for the quarter-finals very much alive but the Steelbacks' chances are very slim after an evening in which the visitors were not on form in any of the three disciplines
Northamptonshire's innings got off to a dreadful start when they lost their openers Ben Curran and Ricardo Vasconcelos to catches in the deep in the first 11 balls. Steven Croft and Tom Hartley were the successful bowlers and they were joined by Liam Hurt in the fifth over when Josh Cobb clipped him to Danny Lamb at short fine leg and departed for 20.
Poorly placed on 42 for 3 after their Powerplay, the Steelbacks' reconstruction of their innings was left in the hands of Rob Keogh and Mohammad Nabi and this pair added 60 in nearly nine overs before Nabi was leg before wicket for 27 when attempting a pull off Lamb.
Keogh went on to make a gutsy 56 despite appearing to suffer a leg injury but he was one of four wickets to fall in the final four overs as the Steelbacks' innings ran out of steam.
Lancashire's cricket, by contrast, was outstanding with at least five fine catches being taken in the deep. Hurt's 3 for 22 represented his best return in T20 cricket but no member of the Lightning attack was collared. Lamb took 2 for 27 and Luke Wells conceded only 18 runs from three overs of leg spin.
Lancashire's reply got off to a very brisk start with the fifty coming up in 33 balls and both Allen and Keaton Jennings scoring freely. The pair had set a first-wicket record for Lancashire against Northamptonshire before Allen pulled Nabi to Josh Cobb at midwicket.
However, neither this wicket nor that of Alex Davies, caught at deep midwicket by Nabi off Freddie Heldreich for seven materially affected the outcome. Having reached his own fifty off 38 balls, nine balls more than Allen had taken, Jennings was unbeaten on 54 when victory was clinched by Dane Vilas's massive six.
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Post by Dave Towers on Jul 10, 2021 9:38:53 GMT
Quite a contrast between our home and away form:-
Home: 4-1-0
Away: 1-1-5
With our final two games at OT still a great chance to qualify.
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Post by chris on Jul 10, 2021 9:39:57 GMT
Beat Durham and they will qualify for the QFs if Warwickshire lose one more game (they play Worcester again and finally Northants) or if Lancs get something out of the Yorkshire match.
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Post by Admin on Jul 14, 2021 10:47:50 GMT
Rumours circulating if more Covid outbreaks the RLC may be cancelled to have more players available for the Blundred
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Post by chris on Jul 14, 2021 12:32:31 GMT
Derbyshire remaining two games cancelled. Their website says:
"Under Playing Condition 16.11.4.5 The North Group will, therefore, be decided on an average points per completed match basis."
Derby have 9 points from 12 games therefore so fill finish on 0.75.
Currently North positions:
Notts 1.58
Yorks 1.25
Worcs 1.17
Lancs 1
Durham, Warwickshire 0.92
North & Derby 0.75
Leics 0.67
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Post by werneth on Jul 14, 2021 19:55:48 GMT
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Post by hariseldon on Jul 14, 2021 20:15:48 GMT
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Post by bigclive on Jul 14, 2021 21:30:02 GMT
I don't see why the Yorkies are moaning as by my reckoning Lancs can't overtake them now
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Post by Phil on Jul 15, 2021 15:18:38 GMT
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Post by chris on Jul 15, 2021 17:25:17 GMT
I don't see why the Yorkies are moaning as by my reckoning Lancs can't overtake them now
As you say a Home QF is now out of reach, as it would have needed Yorkshire to lose to Derbyshire. |
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