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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2021 13:55:24 GMT
Lost toss and have been put in Yorkshire have won 9 tosses out of 10 in the four day stuff and 8 of 11 in the T20. Always said they were lucky tossers. Going alright for us at lunch though. Now now Dave this is a polite forum but as it’s them I’ll let you off |
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Post by man in the stand on Jul 11, 2021 15:13:46 GMT
still going well at tea. I think that Yorkshire didn't want to bat first as they are suffering form AA - Anderson Anxiety!
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Post by redandrosy on Jul 11, 2021 17:52:43 GMT
Luke Wells from Sussex by the sea giving the yorkies nowt in a proper old school roses match knock. Love it! Grind them into the dirt.
Bet they are glad they won the toss!
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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2021 6:56:59 GMT
Lancashire 273 for 2 (Jennings 132, Davies 84) vs Yorkshire
Nothing upstages a Roses match. Ask a good few Yorkshiremen of more mature years where they were on the afternoon when England won the World Cup in 1966 and they will inform you they were in enemy territory watching their side make 50 for 3 against Lancashire at Old Trafford. "It bloody rained," they might add, "but then it's Manchester." They might omit to tell you that one of the dismissed batsmen was G Boycott (c Worsley b Lever 0) although they will probably include in their recollection the fact that Yorkshire won the match by 12 runs, Ray Illingworth taking 5 for 33.
Now, though, it is the vivid present and on a cloudy Leeds afternoon Steve Patterson is trying to make the breakthrough his team desperately need. Brian Close led Yorkshire to the first of a hat-trick of Championships 55 years ago and winning the title would not mean a scruple less to Patterson than it did to the "old bald blighter", as Alan Gibson called him. But things are not going well. Having decided just before the toss to bowl instead of bat - his decision was apparently prompted by the overhead conditions rather than James Anderson's presence in Lancashire's team - Patterson is watching Alex Davies and Keaton Jennings share a stand of 163 for the first wicket. The ground is heavy with incipience and for many Yorkshire supporters it takes the form of anxiety as they worry whether this will be the first season since 2011 in which their side will lose both Roses games. Then Jordan Thompson, who is rapidly becoming a White Rose standard-bearer, brings one back off the seam to Davies, who is lbw for a fine 84. "Maybe this changes things," think the crowd. "Maybe."
Or maybe not. Yorkshire took only one more wicket on this opening day of the game. The triumph was claimed by Thompson who accepted a chipped return catch off Jennings but by then the opener had become the 13th Lancashire batsman to score two first-class centuries against Yorkshire in the same season and had joined a list that includes Archie MacLaren, Cyril Washbrook and Mike Atherton. But let us resist the lure of the past. Jennings' 132 had included four fours in seven deliveries from Dom Leech, whose short spell with the second new ball was something of a punishment. The Lancashire opener hit 15 fours and a six in his 335-minute innings, almost every one of the boundaries being scored on the off side in the mighty segment than stretches from third man to straight down the ground. By the close Lancashire were 273 for 2 and the decision to bowl looked like a foolish impulse. Lancashire would have batted although it was a close call. The verdict of hindsight is one of the travails of captaincy. Patterson probably knows it. So did Close, not that he would ever admit so much.
But this was also a fine day for Davies, a player who 'gets' professional county cricket and has done so from his first day in the job. Davies made his debut, two days short of his 17th birthday, almost a decade ago in a 40-over match against Glamorgan at Colwyn Bay. He conceded no byes as the home side piled up 328 for 4; in addition he chivvied his bowlers to greater effort at every opportunity. Standing next to him at slip, the 25-year-old Tom Smith enquired as the debutant's age and suddenly felt rather ancient.
Davies's initials are A L and so it has been "Al" since his first few weeks in Lancashire's dressing room, a place in which he belonged almost at once. He is the combative bantam-weight at Emirates Old Trafford; he bats like a man unvisited by regrets and on days like this he has nothing to repent. Davies' punched cover-drives and thumps through midwicket proclaimed his simple philosophy of life quite as eloquently as anything he might say, not that he is reluctant to express opinions on the game. Before the last Roses match he said that Yorkshire "are not the team they used to be" and he will have no doubt regarded Lancashire's innings victory in May as a thumping vindication of his judgement. Now, with his side in the seven and six seats once again, Davies is no doubt savouring the possibility of inflicting another hammering on Yorkshire.
It is close of play and nearly eight hours since Patterson won his ninth toss in ten Championship games this season. In the first hour of play Yorkshire's new-ball pairing, Ben Coad and Leech were a trifle unlucky, details that may appear in a coach's notebook but not in the scorecards that will still be studied when another 55 years have passed. Let us hope they are studied anyway. For the moment there is only this moment. Chants can already be heard coming from The Headingley Taps and not even Emmott Robinson would fool himself they concern cricket. The air is thick with the unfenced emotional intensity of another sport.
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Post by chris on Jul 12, 2021 9:31:20 GMT
overnight weather and forecast not good
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Post by Dave Towers on Jul 12, 2021 9:34:03 GMT
I suspect there won’t be any play today. Raining throughout much of the night, (so I’m told), very heavy between about seven and eight, and steady ever since. I’m about seven or eight miles from the ground.
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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2021 10:12:13 GMT
Delayed start meanwhile Derby v Essex abandoned due to Covid-19
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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2021 10:27:41 GMT
Inspection 1.40
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Post by Dave Towers on Jul 12, 2021 11:45:29 GMT
Just going through the motions I’m afraid.
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Post by man in the stand on Jul 12, 2021 13:05:15 GMT
Result of the inspection - Play abandoned for today where it is still raining
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 12, 2021 19:09:40 GMT
Would have played two sessions at Scarborough. No justice is there?
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Post by man in the stand on Jul 13, 2021 9:57:54 GMT
Delayed start at noon....88 overs so 8 lost. Assuming no change in the wicket then Lancs going to bat on and on and put in Yorkies in late today. Can't see us bowling them out twice so another draw I guess.
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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2021 13:45:25 GMT
411-2 early tea Bess injury the cause
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Post by Dave Towers on Jul 13, 2021 13:53:50 GMT
411-2 early tea Bess injury the cause Actually new boy Dominic Leech. Leaves a 64 over session after tea, at least in theory. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2021 14:06:55 GMT
411-2 early tea Bess injury the cause Actually new boy Dominic Leech. Leaves a 64 over session after tea, at least in theory. Thanks Dave, not restarted which does not sound good |
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