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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2022 17:17:42 GMT
344-4
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Post by man in the stand on Apr 14, 2022 17:23:48 GMT
No Jennings?? Even so we couldn't have asked for a better start..
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 5:48:48 GMT
No Jennings?? Even so we couldn't have asked for a better start.. Jennings injured |
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 5:49:04 GMT
Red Rose report
Vilas hit a buccaneering 124 from 158 balls and made a stand of 215 with Steven Croft, who himself produced a more measured 113 not out from 270 deliveries, leaving the visitors in a commanding position at stumps.
Nathan Gilchrist took two for 66 and Matt Milnes two for 68, but after a promising start the hosts struggled throughout the final two sessions, frustrating the majority of a crowd of 1003 at the St. Lawrence.
Lancashire won the toss and chose to bat in broad sunshine, but the light quickly deteriorated and after an opening stand of 36 the breakthrough came when Gilchrist replaced Jackson Bird at the Pavilion End. His second ball found George Balderson’s edge, but it was dropped by a fumbling Zak Crawley at second slip, who failed to grab it three times before parrying it to Jordan Cox at first slip. Although Cox somehow spilled the rebound, it was the shortest possible reprieve for Balderson, who was caught behind off the next ball for seven.
Luke Wells had looked fluent early on but he then fell for 39, toe-ending Gilchrist to Ollie Robinson. When Milnes subsequently trapped Josh Bohannon lbw for 19 Lancashire were wobbling on 80 for 3, but if Kent had arguably shaded the first session, the visitors dominated the second, adding 149 runs and barely offering a chance.
Vilas cut Hamid Qadri to square leg to bring up his fifty in the 46th over and Croft reached the same landmark three overs later when he hit Darren Stevens through the covers for four.
Having reached 229 for 3 at tea, Lancashire continued to pile on the runs, Vilas reaching his 100 when he glanced Qadri past the slips for four, before he was eventually removed by the new ball when he slashed Milnes to Ben Compton at gully.
Milnes gave a roar of delight, relief and quite possibly both, but it was a rare moment of joy for Kent, who also lost Qadri to a hand injury during the evening session.
Croft reached three figures when glanced Bird off his hip for four and remained unbeaten at the close alongside Lancashire debutant Phil Salt, who was unbeaten on 33 after an aggressive cameo late in the day.
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Post by man in the stand on Apr 15, 2022 10:58:44 GMT
Interesting to note that five of the Lancs team are either from other counties or who have not learnt their cricket in Lancashire. If Jennings was fit then they would be the majority.
Lack of talent coming through? 
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 17:06:22 GMT
Parky did come through the ranks and has snaffled two wickets
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 17:18:42 GMT
And now he's got three
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Post by werneth on Apr 15, 2022 21:31:44 GMT
Interesting to note that five of the Lancs team are either from other counties or who have not learnt their cricket in Lancashire. If Jennings was fit then they would be the majority.
Lack of talent coming through? 
It's an interesting point. Talent has certainly come through. Two of the recruits, Wood and Salt, were signed as ready-made replacements for Clark and Davies who were developed through the Lancashire system but chose to move elsewhere. And of course, on another day, the ECB would have been allowing Anderson or Mahmood to play for us which would have improved the balance. Not to mention our IPL star, Livingstone. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 16, 2022 6:55:48 GMT
ESPN view
Kent133 for 3 (Compton 60*, Crawley 54; Parkinson 3-39) trail Lancashire 506 (Croft 155, Vilas 124, Salt 97; Qadri 6-129) by 373 runs
The sensible folk who suggest that we shouldn't play first-class cricket beyond the margins of summer will have to reckon with the April we are enjoying. When Phil Salt eased Jackson Bird's first ball of the morning to deep square-leg for a single, only the barely leafed trees would have convinced a stranger that this game was not taking place in high summer.
The sky was little more than wisped with cloud and you needed to be a belt-and-braces cove to wear a coat. Within ten minutes of the second day beginning at the Spitfire Ground, Steven Croft had taken both Bird and Matt Milnes for off-side boundaries and pragmatic Kent supporters became reconciled to the probability of their batsmen facing a tall score for the second successive game.
Nothing to churn the bowels there, of course. Last week, Ollie Robinson's batsmen piled up 581 for 9 declared in reply to Essex's 514 in a game that was not only drawn but also hung and quartered. Such totals were not unusual in the first round of matches and nor were draws. Some in the crowd reckoned this match would have the same outcome when Kent's openers put on 109 in reply to Lancashire's 506, but the atmosphere changed in a last hour during which Matt Parkinson took three prime wickets, among them that of Zak Crawley for 54 lovely runs. Yet one wondered where those early-season, seaming pitches had gone, along with the 70mph bowlers salivating at the thought of them. Lancashire's batsmen played Darren Stevens with a broomstick on the first day here, albeit a very straight one.
The mileposts of acquisition came and went this morning, some more noticeable than others: Salt passed fifty in his first Lancashire innings; the century partnership came up; then the 400; then Croft's 150. The batsmen walked many of their singles and felt the season's young sun on their backs. On the other hand, the report of Salt's square cut off Nathan Gilchrist would not have shamed a grouse moor. Lancashire's bowlers relaxed in the pavilion and reflected that the best moment of the match was when Dane Vilas won the toss. Then Robinson switched Hamidullah Qadri to the Pavilion End and Croft edged his first ball to the Kent keeper behind the stumps. He departed for 155, which was one short of his career-best.
Half an hour later, Salt lunched on 97, an arrangement which allowed the Lancastrian statisticians some 273 miles away to prepare a mighty array of statistics on the county's debut centurions. Alack, they went unquoted. Qadri's second ball of the afternoon was a squalid long-hop but Salt thrashed it straight to Daniel Bell-Drummond and thus became the first of four batsmen to be dismissed by the Afghan leggie in 16 balls. Hasan Ali was the last of these and his dismissal left Parkinson facing the hat-trick delivery, a situation which often makes the bowler favourite. But Bolton's finest squirted the thing through gully and Lancashire had 500 up before Qadri knocked out Lamb's middle peg to complete a career-best 6 for 76.
Kent's reply followed the pattern of the previous two days. The only change seemed to be that instead of wickets falling infrequently, they wouldn't fall at all. Hasan's first spell for Lancashire was more successful than his first innings and Crawley needed good judgement to let a few balls go. The Pakistani seamer has a whippy action and his left arm does so little work that a batsman might be disconcerted when the ball is delivered. But Crawley followed his checked drive off Tom Bailey in the third over with an even more conclusive stroke through mid-off when Lancashire's new signing over-pitched. Later the opener would play a back-foot force through the covers off Danny Lamb and a brace of cuts off Luke Wood. These bowlers are not poor players; whatever Kevin Pietersen may say, they are entitled to professional careers. But they were mastered this Good Friday afternoon by a Test match cricketer.
At the other end Ben Compton was batting with comparable assurance and offered further evidence of his determination to make the most of his chance at Canterbury. His century at Chelmsford has not sated his appetite. When Kent came in for tea on 51 without loss after 21 overs, Lancashire's bowlers surely thought that a day or so of hard pounding for slight reward might lie ahead, even if they left such views unexpressed.
As in the visitors' innings, leg spin offered the greatest threat. Perhaps guided by Robinson's late change, Vilas brought Parkinson on from the Pavilion End and Kent's openers paid him due respects. Quite apart from his two wickets, Parkinson conceded only 39 runs off his 20 overs on this second day; like Liam Patterson-White, he is finding that the demise of spin bowling in April has been rather over-egged.
His long spell was broken only by tea and his willingness to vary his flight while maintaining good lengths to batsmen of different heights was admirable. So it was pleasing when he gained his rewards in the final hour of play when what seemed to be a top spinner defeated Crawley's only inelegant stroke of the day and wrecked his stumps.
There was further grief for Kent when Bell-Drummond, having survived two full-throated lbw appeals from Hasan, was bowled by a lovely leg-spinner from Parkinson for 2. Four overs later, Tawanda Muyeye, having picked up Bailey for two assured leg-side fours was lbw to Parkinson when playing no shot. Lancashire thus collected their first point for bowling before Kent picked up theirs for batting. An hour earlier it had seemed a remote prospect.
And still, it had been a day for light rollers and light hearts. You might have thought it a July evening and at least one spectator called it paradise. But then, he had sat in the Frank Woolley Stand and watched Crawley hit boundaries; he knew there were afternoons when poems write themselves.
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Post by Admin on Apr 16, 2022 17:37:57 GMT
81-6 close
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Post by lancsdes on Apr 16, 2022 20:44:18 GMT
Look a pretty impressive side.
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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2022 6:44:57 GMT
Suspect it wil have to b a good team that will beat us, given both test bowlers didn't play in this game
View from OT
Kent were bowled out for 260 in their first innings and with a lead of 246, Lancashire immediately enforced the follow on.
Matt Parkinson has match figures of six for 88 while George Balderson has taken four for 16, including three for 14 in Kent’s first innings, putting the visitors in a dominant position.
Ben Compton made an unbeaten 104 in Kent’s first innings, having been stuck on 99 for 38 minutes, and he was unbeaten on 20 at stumps, having witnessed all 16 dismissals from the other end and having been on the pitch for every minute of all three days. In total Compton faced 421 balls over 571 minutes for an unbeaten aggregate score of 124.
All nine wickets to fall on day two had been taken by spinners (six for Hamid Qadri, three for Parkinson) but pace finally counted after half an hour, when night-watchman Qadri, who’d already taken a violent blow to the right shoulder, saw his off stump pinged back by Tom Bailey, bowling him for 10.
Jordan Cox then lost his off-stump to Hassan Ali for two, but Ollie Robinson hung around for just over an hour to make 27 before he was lbw to Parkinson, leaving Kent on 204 for six at lunch, having resumed on 133 for three.
Darren Stevens made just six before he was lbw to Ali, who celebrated with a banshee-like wail, but the afternoon’s main plot concerned Compton, who moved to 99 with a single off Bailey in the 87th over and then faced four successive maidens while nearly running out of partners.
While Compton was marooned on 99, Matt Milnes was caught behind off George Balderson for 22 and Nathan Gilchrist was caught by Luke Wells off the very next delivery. Jackson Bird thwacked Balderson’s hat-trick ball to the square leg boundary, but it was only when Parkinson replaced Bailey at the Pavilion End that Compton was finally able to celebrate.
Having faced 24 balls and played only one false shot, he glanced the spinner for a single to short fine leg to clinch his second century in as many innings for his new club.
When Balderson bowled Bird for 9 in the next over to conclude Kent’s first innings, Compton became the Kent player to carry his bat since Daniel Bell-Drummond in 2017 and he was given just a ten-minute break before he was asked to do it all over again.
Zak Crawley made just five before he edged Balderson behind to a diving one-handed catch by Phil Salt and Bell-Drummond had made just nine when he glanced Danny Lamb down the leg side to become Salt’s second victim of the innings.
Kent reached 28 for two at tea and lost Tawanda Muyeye early in the evening session when he tried to pull Bailey and was caught by Steven Croft for 17. Cox then inexplicably tried charging Parkinson and was bowled for one, having faced just seven balls.
Robinson showed some of Compton’s discipline, lasting 61 balls before Ali had him lbw for 11, but Stevens survived just four deliveries before he was lbw to Parkinson for one.
Matt Milnes was unbeaten on eight at stumps but Kent will need a miraculous final day to avoid an innings defeat.
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Post by chris on Apr 17, 2022 6:56:45 GMT
Look a pretty impressive side. They need to maximise their results in these first six matches. After that they will lose Hassan Ali and Parkinson, and still be without Anderson and Mahmood.
Key supposedly supported Strauss' decision not to play Broad and Anderson in the West Indies, but is willing to give them a final home test. But thinks long term they are blocking development of other new ball bowlers. Parkinson increasingly has momentum to be given an opportunity at test level, and play or carry drinks for the ODI team.
Lancashire's bowling attack in the second half of the season will be crucial - do they go overseas spinner or overseas pace? Much as I hope Gleeson proves his fitness and earns a place, do Bailey, Wood, Blatherwick, Lamb, Balderson and Hurt (plus Boyden) need support or Morley and Hartley? I can't see too much availability for Livingstone. I think they will go spinner. |
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Post by sillypoint on Apr 17, 2022 10:00:08 GMT
Interesting to note that five of the Lancs team are either from other counties or who have not learnt their cricket in Lancashire. If Jennings was fit then they would be the majority.
Lack of talent coming through?
It's an interesting point. Talent has certainly come through. Two of the recruits, Wood and Salt, were signed as ready-made replacements for Clark and Davies who were developed through the Lancashire system but chose to move elsewhere. And of course, on another day, the ECB would have been allowing Anderson or Mahmood to play for us which would have improved the balance. Not to mention our IPL star, Livingstone. You can add Hameed to that. We're certainly developing them, they're just not all available to us for various reasons, some of our own making, some beyond our control. |
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Post by man in the stand on Apr 17, 2022 10:18:34 GMT
It's an interesting point. Talent has certainly come through. Two of the recruits, Wood and Salt, were signed as ready-made replacements for Clark and Davies who were developed through the Lancashire system but chose to move elsewhere. And of course, on another day, the ECB would have been allowing Anderson or Mahmood to play for us which would have improved the balance. Not to mention our IPL star, Livingstone.
You can add Hameed to that. We're certainly developing them, they're just not all available to us for various reasons, some of our own making, some beyond our control. In my original post I forgot to add Buttler....if you look at the Championship winning side there was one import - Moore. Maharoof played just 5 games and Khan 1. |
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