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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2021 16:35:48 GMT
Could do with Luke Wood’s batting at the moment if only he were playing
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2021 17:51:31 GMT
193-6 at the close slightly behind the play in this one
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Post by lankymad on Apr 30, 2021 18:09:08 GMT
193-6 at the close slightly behind the play in this one Slightly behind? Dreadful day against a mostly inexperienced attack that we didn't even attempt to dominate when we were nought down. We should have been looking for max batting points, and all of a sudden we're fighting the follow-on! Grrrr; I suppose not every inns Vilas and Livi will go for ducks and there's a second innings to come, and still a hope to knock 40 - 50 off their lead and bad weather around. I can imagine the excuse for losing 6 wickets in five minutes will be "the tide came in...." |
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Post by werneth on Apr 30, 2021 18:19:55 GMT
193-6 at the close slightly behind the play in this one Slightly behind? Dreadful day against a mostly inexperienced attack that we didn't even attempt to dominate when we were nought down. We should have been looking for max batting points, and all of a sudden we're fighting the follow-on! Grrrr; I suppose not every inns Vilas and Livi will go for ducks and there's a second innings to come, and still a hope to knock 40 - 50 off their lead and bad weather around. I can imagine the excuse for losing 6 wickets in five minutes will be "the tide came in...." Livi will certainly go for ducks again if he plays shots like that – pathetic. |
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Post by lankymad on Apr 30, 2021 21:41:25 GMT
Slightly behind? Dreadful day against a mostly inexperienced attack that we didn't even attempt to dominate when we were nought down. We should have been looking for max batting points, and all of a sudden we're fighting the follow-on! Grrrr; I suppose not every inns Vilas and Livi will go for ducks and there's a second innings to come, and still a hope to knock 40 - 50 off their lead and bad weather around. I can imagine the excuse for losing 6 wickets in five minutes will be "the tide came in...." Livi will certainly go for ducks again if he plays shots like that – pathetic. Bet Jones has been thinking "I could have done better than that". |
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Post by exile on Apr 30, 2021 21:50:59 GMT
Lancs have been second best in all aspects of this game. In the first two sessions yesterday they leaked runs at a ridiculous rate, thanks to several bowlers spraying the ball around while bowling to extremely aggressive fields. Sussex bowled with much more discipline and protected their boundaries so Lancs never scored at better than 2.5 an over and didn't have enough runs on the board when they started to lose wickets after tea. Croft has looked tired in this game, dropping catches and slow with his footwork. Livingstone bowled well enough but played an awful shot to get out. Bohannon and Lamb will have to bat at least until lunch tomorrow if we are going to get out of this mess.
I do wonder how much the enormous effort needed to defeat Kent has taken out of the team. I also wonder if, having outplayed Sussex at OT, the team subconsciously expected them to roll over without their best bowler. Overconfidence is always a killer in team sports.
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Post by Admin on May 1, 2021 6:31:24 GMT
Sussex view
It was hard to see who had the biggest smile at the end of an absorbing day as Jack Carson and Jamie Atkins walked off the outfield at The 1st Central County Ground.
Young off-spinner Carson continued his impressive start to the season with four wickets to lead a strong Sussex recovery against Lancashire in the LV=Insurance County Championship Group 3 match.
The 20-year-old from Northern Ireland finished the second day with four for 50 from 28 overs as Lancashire reached 193 for six in reply to Sussex’s 328, having been 137 for one.
Carson now has 15 wickets this season but 18-year-old debutant Atkins will have enjoyed the day just as much. He may have had a touch of good fortune when Dane Vilas played and the ball rattled into his off stump.
But claiming the Lancashire skipper's wicket for a duck three weeks after he'd taken 189 off the Sussex attack at Old Trafford was still worthy of the exuberant celebration which followed and a deserved reward for the 6ft 6in fast bowler, whose 15 overs cost just 27 runs.
Lancashire openers Alex Davies and Keaton Jennings had put on 93 with few alarms with Jennings passing 50 for the first time this season, but Carson broke through in his fifth over when a quicker ball deceived Davies (34) who chopped on trying to cut after nearly three hours at the crease.
Jennings had been missed at slip by Stiaan van Zyl on 53 off the luckless George Garton but it wasn’t expensive. He added just seven more before edging Carson to slip off a delivery which turned just enough out of the rough.
That left Lancashire 137 for two, but they then lost four wickets for the addition of just seven runs. Stuart Meaker was rewarded for an excellent spell down the slope when Luke Wells (28), on his first return to the county where he spent ten seasons, followed one and was caught behind.
Carson’s third victim was Steven Croft (5), who was athletically caught off bat and pad by wicketkeeper Ben Brown diving forward, and it was 151 for five when Atkins enjoyed his big moment.
Liam Livingstone’s first Championship innings of the season lasted just four balls as Aaron Thomason took a juggling catch at short leg to give the irrepressible Carson his fourth wicket and Lancashire had lost five for 24 runs in 8.5 overs. Josh Bohannon and Danny Lamb negotiated 23 overs to stumps but their side still trail by 135.
Five of the seven bowlers used by Sussex finished the day with economy rates below two runs per over. None of them went at more than three an over.
Earlier, Sussex added just six runs to their overnight 317 for seven before being dismissed for 323 with Lamb taking the last three wickets. He bowled Carson (13) via an inside edge, ran out Henry Crocombe (5) by deflecting the ball onto the stumps as Crocombe backed up before Garton (35) was last out, caught at fine leg. Lamb finished with three for 59 and Tom Bailey took three for 69 before Lancashire’s reply was held up by rain which forced a 40-minute delay.
Sussex's debutant Jamie Atkins said, "I knew on Tuesday I was going to make my debut and it was just a case then of making sure that physically and mentally I was right. It's a great environment to come into because everyone is so supportive and I have played in the Sussex pathway with guys like Henry Crocombe and Jack Carson. I don't think Henry or I expected to be opening the bowling for Sussex in a Championship game when we were in the under-13s together!
"I can't really put into words what it was like to get my first wicket, especially as it was such an important one as Dane Vilas, their captain. I was so chuffed as my celebrations probably showed."
Lancashire opener Keaton Jennings summed up his side's day at the close. "We are probably slightly behind the eight ball and it will be important to get through the new ball tomorrow. I was disappointed with myself because I was aiming to get a big score to help push the game forward. Wickets have fallen in clumps which might be the nature of the surface but there are still two days left and a lot of cricket to be played. I feel like I have played nicely without getting a score so it's nice to get 60 but I am kicking myself for not having gone on and made a big score."
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Post by lankymad on May 1, 2021 19:01:37 GMT
Well what a turnaround! Half way there to a gettable but challenging total with two down, mainly thanks to Davis' agression, something we needed in the first inns. Hope the team don't allow themselves to get bogged down like we did then, hopefully Saj can knock a few hefty blows and make life a lot easier for those following him. keep in mind the weather, don't want to waste time and then find it pours down.
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Post by chris on May 1, 2021 19:43:21 GMT
Well what a turnaround! Half way there to a gettable but challenging total with two down, mainly thanks to Davis' agression, something we needed in the first inns. Hope the team don't allow themselves to get bogged down like we did then, hopefully Saj can knock a few hefty blows and make life a lot easier for those following him. keep in mind the weather, don't want to waste time and then find it pours down. |
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Post by lankymad on May 1, 2021 20:08:11 GMT
Well what a turnaround! Half way there to a gettable but challenging total with two down, mainly thanks to Davis' agression, something we needed in the first inns. Hope the team don't allow themselves to get bogged down like we did then, hopefully Saj can knock a few hefty blows and make life a lot easier for those following him. keep in mind the weather, don't want to waste time and then find it pours down. I'd send in Croft with specific advice to attack the spinner, treat it like a 20/20. All he needs, as you say, is 20-odd and that's the average per partnership. With Vilas, Livi to come, there are attacking options there, and Bohannon to steady the ship. If only Jennings can support Mahmood a bit we're home! |
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Post by lancsdes on May 1, 2021 21:28:10 GMT
For innings cricket is just so marvellous. Equally good game between Somerset and Middlesex for the second time this season.
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Post by Admin on May 2, 2021 6:17:59 GMT
Lancashire 230 (Carson 4-51) and 124 for 2 (Davies 73) need a further 129 to beat Sussex 328 and 154 (Bailey 3-28)
Explaining to a youngster who hasn't yet been to Hove the location of the 1st Central County Ground she, of course, wondered what would happen if a batter "hit the biggest shot ever and it landed in the sea
As fanciful as that is at anytime, there was zero chance when the third day appeared, for a large part, to belong to the bowlers with 16 wickets falling and Sussex conceding a buoyant position before clawing their way back to set Lancashire a victory target of 253.
But then Alex Davies took charge of Lancashire's pursuit, and changed the complexion of the game, the emptiness of the stands making it sound as though he'd swapped his bat for a rifle as he cracked 10 fours and a six on his way to a rapid-fire 73 off just 59 balls. His 102-run stand with Keaton Jennings ensured the visitors had closed the requirement to 129 with a full day ahead and eight wickets in hand.
Jennings was unbeaten with 35 off 85 balls after Jack Carson claimed his fifth wicket of the match, snaring Luke Wells lbw within a breath of stumps, which arrived slightly earlier than scheduled in fading light.
With Carson having spun the hosts into a position of strength by the end of the second day, with Lancashire 193 for 6 in reply to Sussex's first-innngs 328, Jamie Atkins, the teenage quick on debut, picked up where they had left off when he had Josh Bohannon out lbw in the third over of the morning.
With Bohannon gone, having added 11 to his overnight score of 26, it looked like a case of the Sussex bowlers simply cleaning up the tail as Henry Crocombe bowled Tom Bailey with a beauty that sent leg stump cartwheeling and Stuart Meaker, who had bowled economically for just one wicket, added two more as Lancashire were all out for 230 within the first hour, still 98 runs adrift.
Meaker finished with 3 for 22 from 13.2 overs after he had Danny Lamb, the other not-out batsman overnight, lbw and Matt Parkinson caught behind by Ben Brown off a short ball that clipped the glove. Carson ended with 4 for 51.
But batting proved no easier for Sussex. They stumbled to lunch at 37 for 3 and, were it not for a tenacious 45 from Delray Rawlins, they might have struggled to stay in the match.
Lamb made the breakthrough for Lancashire, when he had Aaron Thomason out edging to Wells, who took a fluid catch moving to his right at first slip. Tom Bailey then rattled through the rest of the top order either side of lunch, ensuring there would be no reprise of the first-innings half-centuries by the in-form Tom Haines and Stiaan van Zyl as he accounted for the pair, and Tom Clark, cheaply.
Bailey claimed an impressive 3 for 28 from 10 overs, including five maidens, while Lamb, Liam Livingstone and Matt Parkinson took two wickets apiece.
Livingstone looked to have hurt himself fielding at second slip when a ball struck sharply by Meaker took an awkward bounce into Livingstone's right hand, drawing a yelp of pain. But he was soon clapping vigorously in encouragement of Saqib Mahmood, who worked hard for his solitary wicket. Livingstone bowled the very next over, a maiden, and it wasn't long before he had Meaker caught spooning the ball to Steven Croft at midwicket.
Parkinson only entered the attack in the over before tea and struck with his third ball, a full and floating delivery that struck Carson's pad right in line with middle stump after a handy 21 off 27 to send Sussex to the break at 139 for 8, a lead of 237.
Parkinson's next over was an eventful one, echoing the theme of the day. Rawlins reverse-swept his first ball for four and sent him to the boundary again two balls later with a conventional sweep. But Parkinson had the final say when Rawlins erroneously left a sharp-turning legspinner that jagged back into the top of off-stump, the batter punching his thigh pad in fury with himself before turning on his heel to walk off.
Livingstone had the last man out, Crocombe, with the sixth lbw decision of the innings and 11th for the match up to that point. Sussex were all out for 154, a lead of 252 which, given the steady crash of wickets, looked to at least have given their bowlers something to aim at.
Davies had other ideas, though. In the fifth over of the run chase, he helped himself to 18 off Crocombe, pulling the first ball for six and ending it with consecutive fours.
He brought up his fifty off 36 balls with a four clipped through midwicket off George Garton and was bitterly disappointed when he fell to Meaker's back-of-a-length delivery which found an inside edge onto his stumps, Davies throwing his head to the bright evening sky in anguish.
But he and his side had good reason for cheer at the close, with victory a more realistic proposition than any beachcombers having to duck for cover.
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Post by exile on May 2, 2021 8:46:33 GMT
A good fight back and a promising sign of real resilience in the side but winning from here might not be as easy as it looks. The effect of the roller has worn off and we're going to see plenty of variable bounce and more than a bit of turn. Even though they only need one and a bit runs an over, Lancs mustn't get bogged in crease occupation. They need to keep rotating the strike while avoiding unnecessary risks - easier said than done!
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Post by man in the stand on May 2, 2021 10:00:23 GMT
Lancs have done well to turn this around from a 98 run deficit in the 1st innings. Magic ball from parky to dismiss Rawlins. I wonder if Davies' trouble holding his bat was due to his injured hand? Livingstone doing his bit on the bowling side let us hope he can deliver on his batting.
Important that we don't lose to Sussex...
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Post by lankymad on May 2, 2021 12:25:55 GMT
Nearly there, but there's a lot of rain around. If they can get on after lunch, get it done quickly! Pleased with Bohannon's batting, looks a little livewire, kinda Fairbrother-esque.
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