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Post by chris on Sept 8, 2021 10:29:21 GMT
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Post by alanw on Sept 8, 2021 10:35:42 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 8, 2021 16:26:31 GMT
Close to surviving but beaten after a valiant rearguard action
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Post by Admin on Sept 8, 2021 16:42:55 GMT
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Post by alanw on Sept 8, 2021 16:49:25 GMT
Well beaten. Really disappointing performance by the specialist batsmen. The innings of Balderson, Lamb and Bailey just papering over the cracks. Without Bohannon's contribution we could have been embarrassed against Warwickshire as well. Two wins could get us second place but it seems unlikely with the form of our batting and the injuries to our bowlers.
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Post by chris on Sept 8, 2021 17:13:01 GMT
Well beaten. Really disappointing performance by the specialist batsmen. The innings of Balderson, Lamb and Bailey just papering over the cracks. Without Bohannon's contribution we could have been embarrassed against Warwickshire as well. Two wins could get us second place but it seems unlikely with the form of our batting and the injuries to our bowlers.
Big game next week, they win and it’s probably all done and dusted but lose to Hampshire and who knows??
Meanwhile Lancashire have not won a championship match since May. Lost 2, Drawn 3 (although they were well on top against Yorkshire when that game was abandoned).
Matches aren’t often saved when more than half the side don’t get into double figures, but thanks to the others they took it into the last hour.
Davies, Lavelle, Vilas: 13 balls between them, Croft not many more, and there were about 12 - 13 overs left so about 70 - 80 balls roughly left on the match. Just needed one more player to stick around |
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Post by Dave Towers on Sept 8, 2021 17:20:14 GMT
Don’t forget the Kent match Chris; against Yorkshire we would still have had to take 20 wickets, but we were nearly there against Kent despite losing goodness knows how much time.
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Post by bigclive on Sept 8, 2021 17:27:41 GMT
Well beaten. Really disappointing performance by the specialist batsmen. The innings of Balderson, Lamb and Bailey just papering over the cracks. Without Bohannon's contribution we could have been embarrassed against Warwickshire as well. Two wins could get us second place but it seems unlikely with the form of our batting and the injuries to our bowlers.
Big game next week, they win and it’s probably all done and dusted but lose to Hampshire and who knows??
Meanwhile Lancashire have not won a championship match since May. Lost 2, Drawn 3 (although they were well on top against Yorkshire when that game was abandoned).
Matches aren’t often saved when more than half the side don’t get into double figures, but thanks to the others they took it into the last hour.
Davies, Lavelle, Vilas: 13 balls between them, Croft not many more, and there were about 12 - 13 overs left so about 70 - 80 balls roughly left on the match. Just needed one more player to stick aroundI haven't had chance to watch the stream today but why were there going to be 105 overs today (according to Cricinfo)? |
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Post by Admin on Sept 8, 2021 17:29:09 GMT
Lancashire fell to a 102-run defeat against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge despite a career-best 77 from George Balderson and a record-breaking ninth wicket partnership between Danny Lamb and Tom Bailey in a hard-fought contest at Trent Bridge that went into the final hour of the match.
Balderson had defied the Nottinghamshire bowlers for more than five hours to give Lancashire hope of batting out the final day.
But, in a pivotal moment, the 20 year-old left-handed batsman fell to a stunning catch by Dane Paterson from the last ball of the 80th over midway through the afternoon.
A buoyant home attack, armed with the second new ball, knocked over three Red Rose wickets in quick succession but they were then made to work extremely hard following a 108-run partnership between Lamb and Bailey that nearly took Lancashire to an unlikely draw.
But Bailey finally succumbed to a terrific delivery from Paterson and the injured Saqib Mahmood was caught via bat/pad off Brett Hutton as the hosts wrapped up victory at 5.20pm with 11.1 overs to spare.
The hosts had struck an early blow after Lancashire had resumed on 115-1 when Luke Wells nicked a Paterson delivery to wicketkeeper Tom Moores for 59, ending his fruitful partnership of 117 with Balderson.
Josh Bohannon picked up two boundaries, the second a lovely cover drive off Luke Fletcher, but they were his only scoring shots in a 30-ball stay that ended when he was lbw to big in-swinging delivery from Paterson.
Dane Vilas also went lbw for 3 to Hutton but Balderson and Rob Jones defended stoutly to reach lunch on 170-4, Balderson going to his half-century from 114 balls and posting his best score when driving Hutton through cover to reach 65.
The pair continued in similar vein after the break, compiling a 46 partnership that more importantly took 25 overs as Lancashire fought to bat all day for the draw.
It looked like there was a real prospect of that happening as the home attack toiled in the sweltering afternoon sunshine and the approaching second new ball looked like their best opportunity to make a breakthrough with Lancashire on 192-4 with just over half of the day left.
Instead that came from the last delivery with the old ball, Liam Patterson-White dropping a fraction short and Balderson hammering the spinner towards square leg before standing in a mixture of astonishment and disappointment as Paterson took a quite astonishing catch low to his right and rightly being mobbed by his jubilant team-mates.
It was a tough end to a fine innings from Balderson who had showed great determination, concentration and technique and probably deserved greater reward.
Buoyed by that breakthrough and armed with the new ball the Notts bowlers took three wickets with the score on 210; Jones bowled by Fletcher for 33 to end his determined 98-ball innings, Steven Croft caught at second slip off Paterson for 6 and George Lavelle lbw to Fletcher for 0.
An early finish looked to be on the cards with 48 overs left but Lamb and Bailey had other ideas. Both made half-centuries and set a new ninth-wicket record partnership for Lancashire against Nottinghamshire, beating the previous record of 87 between Bill Huddleston and Harry Dean at Old Trafford in 1909.
The runs were fairly unimportant as Lancashire were never close to chasing down their 444-run target but the ninth wicket alliance spanned 30 overs and one ball to frustrate the hosts and increase the tension as the game went into its final hour.
Sadly it was not to be and Nottinghamshire were left to celebrate a victory that takes them to the top of the Division One table, 17.5 points ahead of Lancashire with two games to play.
The first of those is against Somerset at Taunton starting at 10.30am.
Ken Grime
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Post by Dave Towers on Sept 8, 2021 17:37:14 GMT
Well beaten. Really disappointing performance by the specialist batsmen. The innings of Balderson, Lamb and Bailey just papering over the cracks. Without Bohannon's contribution we could have been embarrassed against Warwickshire as well. Two wins could get us second place but it seems unlikely with the form of our batting and the injuries to our bowlers. The next one will be interesting: Somerset have had two wretched results in the second phase, losing by an innings on both occasions and embarrassingly one of them in just two days. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 8, 2021 17:43:40 GMT
Just as a matter of interest I think it's the top two who play off for the Championship in a five dy final at Lrds in the last week of September
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Post by alanw on Sept 8, 2021 17:49:25 GMT
Just as a matter of interest I think it's the top two who play off for the Championship in a five dy final at Lrds in the last week of September Two wins would give us a chance of getting second place but I'm going to hold off booking my hotel for now. |
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Post by chris on Sept 8, 2021 17:49:55 GMT
After all the complaining that the carry forward of the points was completely unfair. It is now Nottinghamshire’s championship to lose 10.5 points clear of their nearest rivals.
Big game next week, they win and it’s probably all done and dusted but lose to Hampshire and who knows??
Meanwhile Lancashire have not won a championship match since May. Lost 2, Drawn 3 (although they were well on top against Yorkshire when that game was abandoned).
Matches aren’t often saved when more than half the side don’t get into double figures, but thanks to the others they took it into the last hour.
Davies, Lavelle, Vilas: 13 balls between them, Croft not many more, and there were about 12 - 13 overs left so about 70 - 80 balls roughly left on the match. Just needed one more player to stick around I haven't had chance to watch the stream today but why were there going to be 105 overs today (according to Cricinfo)? |
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Post by chris on Sept 8, 2021 17:52:38 GMT
Don’t forget the Kent match Chris; against Yorkshire we would still have had to take 20 wickets, but we were nearly there against Kent despite losing goodness knows how much time.
Something like 450 overs lost over the two games. |
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Post by richard on Sept 8, 2021 17:59:45 GMT
Just as a matter of interest I think it's the top two who play off for the Championship in a five dy final at Lrds in the last week of September Two wins would give us a chance of getting second place but I'm going to hold off booking my hotel for now.I think that the top team is the Champion. But also that the top 2 play off for the separate Bob Willis Trophy But I may be wrong. |
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