Gloucestershire v Lancashire Bristol 25/7/21

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The Bristol County Ground (also known as Nevil Road) is a senior cricket venue in Bristol, England. It is in the district of Ashley Down. The ground is home to Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.


History
Initially known as Ashley Down Ground, it was bought in 1889 by W. G. Grace and has been home to Gloucestershire ever since. It was sold to local confectionery firm J. S. Fry & Sons and renamed Fry's Ground. The club bought the ground back in 1933 and it reverted to its original name. It was sold again in 1976, this time to Royal & Sun Alliance who renamed the ground the Phoenix County Ground for eight years before changing to The Royal & Sun Alliance County Ground until the ground was again bought by the club and took it up its current title.

The ground hosts One Day Internationals, usually one per year, with the addition of temporary seating to increase the ground's capacity. England faced India in 2018 and Pakistan in 2019 at the ground. In addition, three matches will be played at the ground as part of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.[2] Of these three, 2 were abandoned without a ball being bowled due to bad weather. The only match played was Australia v Afghanistan - a match Australia won by 7 wickets.

The ground has long boundaries in comparison to most county cricket clubs.

The former concrete roof over the public terraces, which has now been demolished, was formed from eight hyperbolic-paraboloid umbrellas each approximately 30 ft square, designed by T.H.B. Burrough in 1960.[3]

Redevelopment
In July 2009, Gloucestershire C.C.C. announced plans to redevelop the ground into a 20,000-capacity stadium, with an aim to retaining one day international status.[4][5] The ground now includes a world class media centre and conference facilities. To help fund the project, student accommodation is included in the development. In March 2010, Bristol City Council gave the go-ahead for the new ground.[6]

The following year, the club revised its plans due to concerns from residents on the adjacent Kennington Avenue over permanent stands at the boundary of their property. The permanent capacity will now be raised to 7500 (8000 including the semi-permanent Hammond Roof) with temporary seating increasing capacity to 17,500,[7] but with other changes still implemented: new pavilion, new conference facilities and the construction of new stands (including the demolition of the Jessop stand and Tavern and the rebuilding of the Mound stand to a fixed capacity of 4500) and 147 apartments in three blocks. These plans were approved on 31 May 2012 and development began in October 2012. The Bristol Pavilion opened in August 2013.[8] Permanent floodlights were approved by Bristol City Council in April 2015, which were installed ready for the start of the 2016 season and which will allow the club to continue to host international matches as well as the four 2019 Cricket World Cup matches it has been allocated.[9]

Transport connections
Montpelier railway station is under a mile from the ground. Main line stations Bristol Temple Meads railway station and Bristol Parkway railway station are 2.5 miles and 3.8 miles, respectively, from the ground. Former station Ashley Hill railway station was situated outside the ground but was closed in 1964. There are plans to reopen the station as part of the Greater Bristol Metro proposals.


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Royal London Cup, Group A
Sunday July 25, 2021, 11am
The Bristol County Ground, Nevil Road

Lancashire, kings of one-day cricket through the eighties and nineties, travel to face Gloucestershire, who had significant success in competitions such as the National League, C&G Trophy and the Benson and Hedges Cup in the early 2000s.

While the Red Rose claimed an opening day win against Sussex at Sedbergh yesterday in stunning fashion as they recovered from 115-7 to chase 271, this is Gloucester’s first game of the competition.

Gloucester are aiming to put a frustrating season behind them with success in this competition having been knocked out of the Vitality Blast and also missing out on qualification for the top division of the County Championship.



Team news:
Seamer Jack Blatherwick remains unavailable having injured himself during Tuesday’s National Counties victory over Cumbria at Sedbergh.

Richard Gleeson is on the road to recovery from his back injury having pulled out of the Manchester Originals squad in the Hundred.

He was bowling in the middle at Sedbergh School yesterday.

Opponents:
Gloucestershire were flying high at the top of their County Championship group having won four of their first seven games. But they then lost two out of their last three games to slip out of the top two behind Somerset and Hampshire.

They were also beaten semi-finalists in last year’s Vitality Blast, but they finished sixth in the south group this season, a point outside the quarter-final qualifying places.

Like all counties, they have been affected by Hundred call-ups, with South African batting all-rounder Graeme van Buuren captaining a young side in their National Counties friendly win against Wiltshire on Tuesday.



Toms Lace (batsmen) and Smith (spinner) have significant county experience.

In fact, Smith was in the Gloucester team which won this competition in 2015, beating Surrey in the final at Lord’s. He claimed two wickets in a tigerish defence of 221 that day.

Gloucestershire lost long-serving head coach Richard Dawson to the England set-up at the start of the season, and he was replaced by former Australia all-rounder Ian Harvey, a former Gloucester overseas favourite.

Previous meeting:
Lancashire and Gloucestershire were due to meet in the first season of the Royal London one-day Cup, 2014, only for the group fixture at Bristol to be washed out without a ball bowled.

Two summers before that, Lancashire won a Clydesdale Bank 40 fixture at Bristol by 18 runs defending a target of 190.

Oliver Newby top-scored with 36 from number nine in Lancashire’s order, pushing them up from 143-8.

In reply, Gloucester slipped to 16-4 after seven overs.



They recovered to 158-7, though lost their last three wickets for six runs to slip to a defeat at 164 all out inside 36 overs. Glen Chapple claimed superb figures of 5-26 from eight overs.

Lancashire qualified for the semi-finals that season, though they were beaten by Warwickshire at Emirates Old Trafford.

The two counties have not met in a 50-over game since 2000 when Gloucester won a NatWest Trophy semi-final at Bristol defending a target of 249. They went on to win the trophy, beating Warwickshire in the Lord’s final.

What they said:
Danny Lamb, one of the Sedbergh heroes with 86 not out alongside Tom Bailey with 45, says Lancashire are confident they can claim silverware in this summer’s Royal London Cup.

The Red Rose are one of the more experienced sides in a competition shorn of many players due to the Hundred, and clearly belief will be sky high after yesterday’s heist against Sussex.

“We’ve got incredible strength in depth throughout the squad,” he said.



“I think we have a really good chance, and I don’t see why we can’t go on and win it.

“To taste winning a trophy would be amazing.

“The games come thick and fast. It’s all about momentum this sort of cricket. You’ve seen in the T20 that if you get off to a flyer, you’re hard to stop.”

Glos view

Glos v Lancashire | Match Preview
24 July 2021

Gloucestershire’s first competitive one-day match in more than two years takes place tomorrow as the Club’s Royal London Cup campaign gets underway with the visit of Lancashire to Bristol County Ground.

Two years on from the heartbreak of missing out on the knockout stage of the competition by run rate, Gloucestershire now look to compete without some of their star players – lost to The Hundred.

Gloucestershire v Lancashire | Live on the Gloscricket Match Centre | 11:00am Start Time

Club captain Chris Dent is once again not available for selection due to injury. He underwent surgery on his broken index finger and will continue rehabilitation over the coming weeks prior to a projected return in August. James Bracey is also not available for selection due to self-isolation as a close contact of a positive COVID case.

However, supporters of The Shire will be pleased to see Ben Charlesworth back in the line-up after suffering a dislocated shoulder in a preseason T20 friendly. He made 130 off 146 balls in this week’s meeting against Wiltshire at Bristol County Ground.

Another player who has been unlucky no to feature more this season, Graeme van Buuren, has been in scintillating form. After making 61 runs and 5/36 against Wiltshire, he scored 105 runs against Glamorgan Second XI on Thursday.

Without the big-hitting of Dent, Hammond, Cockbain or Phillips, Gloucestershire will need van Buuren as well as Tom Lace to carry the scoring load if they are to be successful.

Ollie Price is included in the matchday squad as is Jared Warner providing youth and variation to the bowling attack. Warner could make his first competitive appearance for Gloucestershire against Lancashire tomorrow

New signing Ben Wells will also be hoping to make his debut for the Club after impressing with the Second XI and in the match against Wiltshire.



Gloucestershire’s squad for tomorrow’s match:




Lancashire will be without eight players for the duration of the competition due to The Hundred: Jos Buttler, Alex Davies, Richard Gleeson, Tom Hartley, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Matthew Parkinson and Luke Wood.

Lancashire’s overseas signing for the competition, the India batsman Shreyas Iyer, has been ruled out through injury. However, the Red Rose County will be confident of challenging for the top three places with their depth of talent available.

Lancashire reached the semi-final of the competition in 2019 before being beaten by Hampshire in Southampton.

They started the current campaign with a two wicket win against Sussex at home.

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Vilas signed temporary for a pub team, Bailey captain

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This morning

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Bailey wins toss bowls

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Interesting Bailey is captain I would have expected Jennings to be captain or even Croft.

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Chasing 150 could be interesting

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171 all out game on

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Croft wins game with a six, good toss to win pitch eased throughout the day all Lancashire's batsmen got double figures, Lamb five wickets two wins out of two

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Lancashire claim victory in Bristol
25 July 2021

Danny Lamb claimed career-best figures of 5-30 to inspire Lancashire to a comfortable six-wicket victory over Gloucestershire in a one-sided Royal London One Day Cup contest at Bristol.

Lancashire won the toss, inserted the hosts on a drying pitch beneath leaden skies and, with Preston-born seamer Lamb to the fore, dismissed Gloucestershire for 171 in 48 overs. Only lower-order resistance from Matt Taylor, who top-scored with 51 not out, and George Scott, who contributed 43 runs to a swashbuckling eighth-wicket alliance of 69 in 16 overs, prevented an even heavier defeat.

Keaton Jennings registered a patient 47 to afford the reply solid foundations, while Josh Bohannon, Luke Wells and Rob Jones all weighed in with useful cameos before Steven Croft and George Balderson helped Lancashire attain their target with 6.2 overs to spare. Gloucestershire's most effective bowler, Josh Shaw took 4-36 in a losing cause.

Gloucestershire were on the back foot from the very outset, openers George Hankins and Ben Charlesworth falling inside five overs to new ball bowlers Liam Hurt and Tom Bailey respectively. Any prospects of Graeme van Buuren and Tom Lace redressing the balance were dashed when their stand, worth 41, was terminated by the advent of Lamb, who claimed three wickets in 11 balls as the home side lurched from 56-2 to 63-5 in the space of three calamitous overs. Lamb induced Lace to miss-hit a drive to mid-off for 15, van Buuren became the latest batsman to play himself in and then surrender his wicket cheaply when slicing to point for 17, and Jack Taylor was pinned inside his crease as Lamb took a wrecking ball to the top and middle order.

Introduced from the Pavilion end at the mid-point of the innings, England Under-19 slow left armer Jack Morley made an instant impression, bowling debutant Ben Wells with his first ball, then hurling himself low to his right to take a startling return catch and send back Tom Smith on his way to incisive figures of 2-22 from 10 overs.

Deep in trouble at 89-7 in the 29th over, Gloucestershire were indebted to Scott and Matt Taylor, these two carrying the fight to the red rose county and at least restoring a semblance of respectability. Between them, they amassed 10 boundaries, more than the rest of their team-mates combined, and the visitors breathed an audible sigh of relief when Scott edged a catch behind off the returning Lamb and departed for an 84-ball 43.

Matt Taylor went to 50 in the grand manner, hoisting Bailey high over deep square leg to register his third six, and finished unbeaten on 51, made from 64 balls, while Lamb bowled Shaw to claim his first List-A five wicket haul and wrap up an innings which never quite recovered from the loss of early wickets.

Forced to set attacking fields in pursuit of early wickets, Gloucestershire made a breakthrough in the eighth over, Scott taking off at point to hold a marvelous catch and send back Bohannon for 24 off the bowling of Shaw with the score on 36. Smith took an equally thrilling catch at deep point as Luke Wells succumbed to Shaw for 31, but Jennings proved unmovable in his role of anchor, the former England opener chiseling 47 from 84 balls and raising 51 for the third wicket with Jones to usher Lancashire to within sight of victory.

The returning Shaw denied Jennings a half century and then accounted for Jones as the visitors experienced a slight wobble, but Croft and Balderson calmed any nerves in an unbroken stand of 41 for the fifth wicket.

Gloucestershire's Matt Taylor said:

"There is no doubt we were on the wrong end of the conditions today and, had we won the toss, we would definitely have bowled first. But we cannot use that as an excuse. We lost early wickets and never really recovered from that. I don't usually get to bat for so long in one-day games and probably doubled my average with that knock, but 171 was not enough and there was no escaping that.

"Josh Shaw has been in great form in white ball cricket this summer and he bowled really well, but we couldn't take as many early wickets as we needed to build pressure. We've got another home game against Worcestershire here on Tuesday and it's up to us to change the momentum."