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Post by Admin on Apr 19, 2022 14:24:11 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 19, 2022 14:57:13 GMT
Saq and Jimmy available
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Post by man in the stand on Apr 20, 2022 10:48:26 GMT
Saq and Jimmy available
Jennings fit???....spoilt for choice in the bowling dept. If Haseen Ali plays then I presume Bailey will drop out. Otherwise looks like a long tail...
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2022 13:30:02 GMT
Lancashire v Gloucestershire
LV= Insurance County Championship, Division One
Emirates Old Trafford
Thursday April 21 - Sunday April 24, 2022, 11am
Steven Croft (155), Dane Vilas (124), Phil Salt (97) and Matt Parkinson (seven wickets in the match) all stood out amidst a series of contributions.
Now it is back home to Emirates Old Trafford to face a Gloucestershire side who have drawn and lost in the opening two games.
Newly promoted to Division One, albeit that happened at the end of 2019 alongside Lancashire, they have drawn at Northamptonshire and lost at home to Yorkshire.
Seam duo Jimmy Anderson and Saqib Mahmood are set to come back into contention after the ECB requested they sit out the Kent game, while Hassan Ali is in line for a home debut after an encouraging start in the South East, claiming five wickets in the game.
Opponents:
Gloucestershire are under new leadership this year, with former South Africa batter Dale Benkenstein their coach.
Benkenstein was employed by Lancashire last season on a short-term batting coach contract.
Captained by another South African, the experienced batter Graeme van Buuren, they have signed Australian opener Marcus Harris as an overseas player alongside Pakistan duo Zafar Gohar and Naseem Shah.
Teenaged quick Shah missed out on the Yorkshire game with a shoulder injury, while left-arm spinner Gohar has returned to Bristol having impressed at the back end of last year.
Gloucestershire started last season’s Conference season impressively before falling away to miss out on qualification for September’s Division One campaign.
Opposing player to watch:
Wicketkeeper batter James Bracey is enjoying one heck of a run of form.
The Bristol-born left-hander, capped twice in Test Matches by England last summer without making an impression, has scored three hundreds in as many first-class appearances since December.
Touring with the England Lions, he scored one against Australia A in Brisbane, before adding one in the first innings of the draw at Northampton and another in the second innings against Yorkshire.
Aged 24, it is form which will inevitably lead to calls for him to return to the Test team, even if it is just as a batter given the plethora of keeping options available.
Bracey will almost certainly bat at three this week and, alongside Harris, is a key player.
Previous meeting:
These two sides haven’t met a great deal in the County Championship recently, though Lancashire did win at Bristol in last year’s Royal London Cup.
The last four-day meeting was at Cheltenham in 2019 when, en-route to promotion, the Red Rose were held to a rain-affected draw.
No play was possible on the first day before Saqib Mahmood claimed four wickets as Gloucester posted 205 all out.
In reply, half-centuries from Keaton Jennings and Rob Jones ensured a 39-run first-innings lead with 244. Unfortunately, with little time left in the game, there was no prospect of anything other than a stalemate.
Gloucester finished on 68-2 second time around.
The visitors have only won twice at Emirates Old Trafford since 1965 - a total of 20 matches. One came in 1994 and the other in 2015.
In total, Lancashire have won 70 of 159 Championship meetings at all venues, losing only 22.
What they said:
Jimmy Anderson is backing Lancashire to win the County Championship title this summer.
Anderson is set to return to county colours for this week’s clash with Gloucestershire and is intent on helping the county get off to a flying start.
His team-mates made the ideal start at Kent, and he said: “I think we have a squad that can go all the way.
“It was a disappointing finish to the Championship last year. But I don't see any sort of negative effect from last year.
“I think there is a real hunger to go one further, to start well, and we have strengthened in areas that will help us.”
Anderson, 39, has not played since the penultimate Test Match of the Ashes series in Sydney at the start of January.
Left out of England’s tour to the West Indies clearly hurt him, but he is ready and raring to go in his bid to advance the Red Rose cause and win his England place back.
“I feel good,” he said. “I’ve probably not had enough outdoor bowling as I’d have liked because of the Manchester weather, but I feel like I’m getting there.
“For me, if I think of how I build up to a Test series (New Zealand at the start of June), I want to be in as good form as possible going into that series.
“The best way of doing that is performing for Lancashire, trying to win games of cricket. That’s been my mindset forever really. Performing as well as I possibly can here and hopefully those performances will lead to a call-up.
“If not, then at least we will get off to a good start to the season.
“I’m trying not to think about that (England) too much.
“What I can focus on and control is playing for Lancashire and getting us off to a good start hopefully.
“Having a good two months with Lancashire is going to be exciting for me.”
Lancashire squad to face Gloucestershire:
Dane Vilas*, Hassan Ali, James Anderson, Tom Bailey, George Balderson, Josh Bohannon, Steven Croft, Danny Lamb, Saqib Mahmood, Matt Parkinson, Phil Salt+, Luke Wells.
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 5:46:39 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 9:45:22 GMT
They win toss and bat
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 9:55:21 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 11:05:44 GMT
In the Lancashire way, half the ground is shut
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 11:57:59 GMT
Much vaunted bowling attack still wicketless three minutes before lunch
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Post by Dave Towers on Apr 21, 2022 12:25:57 GMT
Mahmood, Ali, Parkinson and Anderson. That’s some tail.
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 14:23:39 GMT
Better this afternoon four wickets
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Post by Butter_Fingers on Apr 21, 2022 18:42:03 GMT
Mahmood, Ali, Parkinson and Anderson. That’s some tail. Think Hasan Ali is more than capable of slapping a few rapid 30/40's in his time at Lancashire. |
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Post by Butter_Fingers on Apr 21, 2022 18:50:47 GMT
Stumps.
Gloucestershire: 252 all out (88 overs) Hasan Ali 17-6-47-6
Lancashire 11-1 (5.2)
Strange unless he slipped for Balderstone to get run out when playing out the last few overs of the day.
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 18:54:24 GMT
To lose a wicket to a run out on the last ball of the day does sound careless
Hassan Ali led a great Lancashire fightback on the opening day of this LV= Insurance County Championship clash after Gloucestershire had stunned the hosts with an unbeaten pre-lunch century partnership.
The Pakistan international took a sensational 6-47 as the Red Rose fought their way back into the game through the afternoon and evening sessions taking all ten wickets for 133 runs after Chris Dent and Marcus Harris had posted 119 for the first wicket.
The visitors’ opening pair had made the most of a good batting track after captain Graeme van Buuren called correctly at the toss, making a steady start in the face of some probing bowling from the international trio of James Anderson, Hassan Ali and Saqib Mahmood.
But Lancastrian hopes of an early clatter of wickets went unanswered as Dent and Harris defended through the first hour and prospered in the second with some lovely attacking shots, Harris lofting Matt Parkinson for six over long-off as the runs started to flow.
The only moments of real alarm for the visitors came when Aussie opener Harris inside edged Mahmood to fine leg for four and Dent survived a big appeal for lbw from Hassan, but the pair accelerated well in the final hour up to lunch posting their century partnership in the last over of the morning.
The afternoon session could hardly have been more of a contrast as Lancashire hit back by taking six wickets for 31 runs in a spell of just over 20 overs.
It was Hassan who made the breakthrough when Dent on 52 edged to second slip where Steven Croft took an excellent juggling catch to break the opening partnership at 119 in the 38th over.
Harris soon followed for 67 when he glanced a Mahmood delivery down the leg side that was well taken by wicketkeeper Phil Salt and George Balderson bowled James Bracey for 5.
Van Buuren and Miles Hammond were then tied down by some accurate Red Rose bowling, adding just 9 runs in 50 minutes before the pressure took its toll.
Van Buuren gloved a pull down the leg side off Mahmood to Salt for 4 before Hassan returned to take two wickets in two balls; Hammond edging a swish behind to Salt for 9 and Tom Lace lbw first ball to leave Gloucestershire on 150-6.
Ryan Higgins and Zafar Gohar steadied matters to reach tea on 170-6 before extending their partnership to 65 during the final session as this day took yet another twist.
But Lancashire claimed the final four wickets late in the day starting with Zafar who had batted steadily to reach 27 before he had a wild swipe at Parkinson and was stumped by Salt, his maiden first-class stumping.
Hassan returned to bowl Josh Shaw for 18 and then have Ajeet Singh Dale caught at point by Josh Bohannon for 4 to complete a marvellous performance with figures of 6-47.
Ryan Higgins, who has a century to his name already this season, was left 51 not out with Gloucestershire 252 all out.
Lancashire had six overs to bat but lost Balderson for 4 in the final over to a run out from a direct hit thrown by Zafar to finish on 11-1, 241 runs behind.
Hassan Ali was a happy man at the close of play after his six-wicket performance on his home debut for Lancashire.
“I really enjoyed that,” he said. “Getting a five-for in the County Championship is a great moment for me.”
“It’s also good for the team. We made a plan to keep it simple and as a bowling unit we did that and succeeded.
“If you keep patient you will get rewards (on this wicket). We did that and kept trying to bowl in the right areas. “The first session wasn’t good enough for us but you can see we (eventually) got a lot of wickets.
“A five-for is pretty special for me. And when you come off and the great Jimmy Anderson is clapping for me, that’s a great moment for me, he’s showing his appreciation.
“I was a bit nervous (to be sharing the bowling with Jimmy),” admitted Hassan. “But he was supporting me and backing me so it was nice.”
Hassan was philosophical about getting six wickets while Anderson went wicketless today.
“Sometimes you bowl really well and don’t get wickets,” he said. “That’s cricket.”
“We’ve got a brilliant bowling attack (here) and I’m enjoying playing with them.
Hassan grinned when asked about his pretty dynamic wicket celebration.
“Cricket is a long game so I thought I’m going to give something for the crowd and my team mates,” he explained.
“They tell me it gives them a lot of energy! The crowd enjoy it too so I’m happy to keep doing it.”
Hopefully it’s a celebration we will see a lot more of the coming weeks.
Ken Grime
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Post by man in the stand on Apr 21, 2022 19:09:15 GMT
The demolition of Red Rose Suite has opened up a pleasant vista of the city centre skycrapers rising above the trees and bushes of the Ua92 car park. Unfortunately the gap allowed in the cold blast of a strong wind which didn't help the bowlers or the spectators who massed in the sunny parts of the terraces to try and keep warm.
I don't whether LCCC were being extra cautious but they closed A, B and ,oddly C upper stands. I hope this won't be the pattern for the season.
As for the game not Jimmy's day. His opening delivery was a no-ball and, after his 1st post lunch ball he realised he was wearing odd boots; one with studs and one without. Gloucs would be happy getting to lunch without a losing a wicket but once they did they seemed to lose momentum for while. They then picked up a bit but bowled out. Good work from Hassan Ali...and to be fair to Jimmy..Hassan's 1st delivery was a wide.
Didn't see the run out....
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