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Post by Admin on May 4, 2022 13:59:30 GMT
 A black and white photo not sure of date, anorak fact the first time I saw Lancashire was a Gillette Cup match against Warwickshire at Old Trafford in 1964 Seen this guy before  Taken from the Warwickshire site Rewind: Lancashire v Warwickshire, 1972 It is the opinion of no less a judge than the great MJK Smith that Rohan Kanhai is up there with Brian Lara as the greatest batter ever to play for Warwickshire. Both were touched by genius and one factor with which Lara did not have to deal, which Kanhai did throughout his Bears career (1968-77) was uncovered pitches. Wet wickets made batting significantly more difficult, offering bowlers all sorts of help and requiring the greatest skill from batters. These were conditions that brought the best out of Kanhai, some of whose greatest innings were played when batting was at its most testing. The Bears’ championship visit to Old Trafford to face Lancashire in 1972 was a classic example. There had been, unusually for Manchester, rain around and the pitch was damp and green. Batting was tricky, as the Red Rose discovered when they went in first and scored 181. Kanhai then made 199 – one of the finest individual innings ever played for Warwickshire. A strong Lancashire batting side, including Clive Lloyd. David Lloyd, Barry Wood and Farokh Engineer, was bowled out in 62.1 overs as Steve Rouse took five for 47 (his maiden five-for) and Norman McVicker three for 48. The ball was doing plenty, as John Whitehouse soon discovered when Ken Shuttleworth sent it on to his stumps. That brought Kanhai to the crease and the masterclass began. Shuttleworth, Peter Lever and Peter Lee were a strong pace trio, backed up by the medium-paced bananas of Wood and the wily spin of Jack Simmons and David Hughes. All came alike to the great West Indian. The Bears were 50 for three when Kanhai was joined at the crease by his countryman Alvin Kallicharran. They added 152 and, after Kalli fell lbw to Simmons for 50, Kanhai climbed into even more spectacular attack. The ball was swinging and seaming but he defended with impeccable judgment and drove, cut and pulled with brutal power. Kanhai was just a single short of a scintillating double century when he edged ‘Leapy’ Lee to wicketkeeper Engineer. He was on 199 out of his team’s 347 for six. His genius lifted the Bears to 371 for seven declared, after which the Red Rose were bowled out for 149 (David Brown (five for 49, McVicker three for 35), leaving the Bears victorious by an innings and 41 runs. Since that win in ’72, they have won only another three championship games at Old Trafford but if that does not seem many in 50 years, it must be remembered that the Bears have often visited Lancashire outgrounds. They have won at Blackpool (1973 and 1976), Southport (1999) and Aigburth (2012). Their three wins in Manchester since ’72 arrived in a seven-year burst between 1978 and 1984. An 85-run triumph in ’78 was set up by remarkable match figures of 61.2-27-111-12 by skilful medium-pacer Steve Perryman. In 1983, a six-wicket win featured crucial runs from 40-year-old Dennis Amiss and decisive wickets from 43-year-old Norman Gifford. The following season came a 50-run win after a fine fightback from a first innings deficit of 56. Alvin Kallicharran (117), Robin Dyer (84) and Geoff Humpage (61 not out) put the Bears back in the match in a second innings score of 327 for four declared. Gladstone Small then sent Lancashire tumbling to 70 for six and finished with five for 42 as the Red Rose was bowled out for 221. And that, 38 years ago, remains the Bears’ most recent championship win in Manchester. Can Will Rhodes this week become the first Bears captain since Norman Gifford to lead his side to championship victory at Old Trafford? Building site news Are you heading to Emirates Old Trafford to watch Lancashire in the LV=Insurance County Championship fixture? Due to the works being carried out on our exciting new development, there will be no through access between stands A and B. For more information click on the link: Emirates Old Trafford New Development Emirates Old Trafford is committed to being a welcoming venue for all, we ask that our guests are considerate and respectful of each other. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643123www.bearsfans.org.uk/ |
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Post by Admin on May 4, 2022 16:06:48 GMT
Saqib Mahmood is absent from the squad, as he is currently undergoing further treatment on a shoulder injury sustained during the winter. Fellow seamer James Anderson has been rested after playing in back-to-back matches against Gloucestershire and Hampshire.
Opener Keaton Jennings and all-rounder Luke Wood are both available for selection for the LV= Insurance County Championship clash.
Lancashire head into the match in third place, and unbeaten so far this season, with two wins and a draw from their opening three Division One fixtures.
13-man squad to face Warwickshire:
Dane Vilas*, Tom Bailey, George Balderson, Josh Bohannon, Steven Croft, Hassan Ali, Keaton Jennings, Rob Jones, Danny Lamb, Matt Parkinson, Phil Salt+, Luke Wells, Luke Wood.
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Post by Admin on May 5, 2022 9:40:18 GMT
Lost toss bowling
Jennings Wood Parky in
Jimmy Saq Jones not
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Post by Admin on May 5, 2022 10:11:09 GMT
Davies gone for a duck don’t chuckle
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Post by longstop on May 5, 2022 10:17:29 GMT
The coverage on youtube is really good.multi cameras replays etc etc
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Post by chris on May 5, 2022 11:40:52 GMT
Davies gone for a duck don’t chuckle |
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Post by Admin on May 5, 2022 17:30:01 GMT
273-7 close
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Post by man in the stand on May 5, 2022 19:42:08 GMT
Fairly even day with our weaker bowling attack... didn't let them get away from us. Sibley making a bid for an England place and yet another centurion after Gubbins last match.
From the forecast looks like no little or no play late afternoon but looks good for Sat and Sun.
I'd put the date of the b&w photo as early eighties when the new press and hospitality boxes were nearing completion...
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Post by lancsdes on May 5, 2022 20:45:57 GMT
Enjoyed the stuff about Kanhai. He certainly used to terrify me. I can remember the relief the same year in the Gillette final when he was caught on the boundary sweeping David Hughes after scoring about 12. I’m fairly sure we were also on the receiving end of 192 from Dennis Amiss at Edgbaston that year , another player who mercifully scored only about 15 in Clive Lloyd’s masterpiece final. This was another time Kanhai scored lots of runs against us. cricketarchive.com/Lancashire/Scorecards/29/29527.html |
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Post by Admin on May 6, 2022 6:10:14 GMT
Enjoyed the stuff about Kanhai. He certainly used to terrify me. I can remember the relief the same year in the Gillette final when he was caught on the boundary sweeping David Hughes after scoring about 12. I’m fairly sure we were also on the receiving end of 192 from Dennis Amiss at Edgbaston that year , another player who mercifully scored only about 15 in Clive Lloyd’s masterpiece final. This was another time Kanhai scored lots of runs against us. cricketarchive.com/Lancashire/Scorecards/29/29527.htmlThe trademark falling hookshot Anyway here's ESPN's view Warwickshire 273 for 7 (Sibley 118*, Bailey 3-50) vs Lancashire Dominic Sibley will never be a gainly cricketer but he might become an exceptionally effective one once more. Those Warwickshire and England supporters who watched Sibley struggle dreadfully when playing Test cricket last summer would be heartened by such a renaissance and they may be further encouraged when he finally talks about the work he did over the winter. The evidence of that labour - apparently Sibley was often in the Edgbaston nets at eight in the morning - was plain during this marvellously well-contested day at Emirates Old Trafford. When it ended, in glorious May sunlight, the opener had 118 runs against his name. He had batted through the three sessions and had faced 278 balls, 15 of which he had hit for four. So much, so statistical. But the true merit of his innings was plain not in its figures - he has made centuries before, some of them big ones, two of them in Test matches - but in the manner the runs were made. It is, of course, absurd to say Sibley should now be recalled to the England side. Yet innings like this revealed an improved technique and underlying that, the sort of humble, illusionless approach any sportsman needs if he is to recover from the setbacks that will certainly be part of his career. The late wickets taken by Lancashire with the new ball may have given their side the slightest of edges but there is little doubt whose contribution will attract the most notice when this game is reported on the media's many platforms. Sibley's "journey", to borrow the current buzz-word, might be one from which other young cricketers can learn and perhaps it began, ironically, with opting not to play for an England team. When selected for the England Lions squad last autumn it would have been easy for Sibley to go to Australia in the hope of picking up a big hundred and somehow getting straight back in the Test team. Instead, he clearly recognised that such an approach would do little for his technical shortcomings and he opted to spend his winter mornings with Tony Frost and the other Warwickshire coaches in the Edgbaston nets, working on his balance and rebuilding a game that had come close to disintegration in two Tests against India's pace attack. As a result, Sibley's batting is no longer an unlucky bag of technical problems. He does not fall across the line of the ball; his hands are less likely to grope out towards the off side; his attacking strokes to leg in front of square have become controlled clips rather than wild shovels. He is also playing much straighter, with his head over the ball; a fine straight drive off George Balderson was a perfect example off this modification. In short he no longer topples over like a hat-stand in a stiff breeze. His batting is characterised by commitment without compulsion. There were sins amid all this righteousness; Sibley's 380-minute innings was chanceless but by no means faultless. Yet one only needed to recall his fraught cricket last year to realise how much has now changed. And one had to see the struggles some of his partners endured to understand the merit of his innings. The first wicket to fall was that of Alex Davies, whose departure from Lancashire last July came as a surprise to most people at Emirates Old Trafford, maybe even, in a sense, to Davies himself. However, the opener experienced a more predictable leave-taking in the third over of the day's play when he shouldered arms to a ball from Tom Bailey and lost his off stump. Davies had already been flummoxed twice by his former colleague so one can hardly say his dismissal for an eight-ball eight-minute nought was much of a shock. Sibley's difficulties, though, have never been of the temperamental variety and throughout the rest of the day he bore the departures of his partners with a phlegmatic shrug. Nearly an hour after Davies' dismissal, Rob Yates was bowled for 15 by a fine outswinger from Luke Wood that curved back from a middle-stump line and knocked out the off stick. The stump had barely stopped moving before Sibley had turned to the dressing room and indicated he needed new gloves. It would be wrong to interpret this as indifference to reverses; rather it revealed a determination to prepare for a new stage in his side's innings. The over after Yates was dismissed Sibley cover- and straight-drove Balderson for fours. It was hard to recall him playing the second of those strokes with comparable assurance a year ago. Lancashire, though, are a flinty bunch of cricketers and they allowed Warwickshire few liberties in the afternoon session. Sam Hain batted very competently for his 38 runs but then turned a legspinner from Matt Parkinson into a full toss and drove it to straight to short extra-cover where Rob Jones, the substitute fielder, took the catch above his head. Will Rhodes, who seems out of sorts at present, went back to a legspinner from Parkinson when he should have gone forward and was bowled for 16. Warwickshire came into tea on 169 for 4 and by then it was clear that the nature of the day, although not its balance, might be defined by whether or not Sibley, who was on 76, completed one of the most important centuries of his career. That matter was resolved relatively swiftly. A glanced four off Bailey and a cut off Wood took him nearer the nineties and two fours off Parkinson eased nerves. A single off Balderson brought up the landmark but Sibley acknowledged the matter in the most low-key fashion. He probably knows there is so much more to do in this match, this season and his career. Others can kiss badges if they wish. Lancashire, though, struck the day's final important blows. Bailey, who seems never to bowl badly, had both Chris Benjamin and Michael Burgess leg before wicket, the former for a fine 47, and Hasan Ali snared Danny Briggs well caught at slip by Keaton Jennings. Sibley watched from the other end and then trudged off. Weather permitting, he will be there again tomorrow. And suddenly, it looks as though there might be a lot of fine tomorrows for him. |
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Post by exile on May 6, 2022 15:55:03 GMT
Fairly even day with our weaker bowling attack... didn't let them get away from us. Sibley making a bid for an England place and yet another centurion after Gubbins last match.
From the forecast looks like no little or no play late afternoon but looks good for Sat and Sun.
I'd put the date of the b&w photo as early eighties when the new press and hospitality boxes were nearing completion...
Weaker or not, MITS, the bowling attack has performed a great deal better than it did at Southampton, where we were lucky in the end to be rained off. On a pitch as flat as the current one, 315 a/o in three and a half sessions was a really good achievement for the bowlers. The Warwickshire attack has so far looked quite toothless and there's a good chance of only having to bat once - although the loss of a session and a half may prove too much given the tendency of OT pitches on the outer edges of the square to become lifeless. |
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Post by man in the stand on May 6, 2022 19:01:05 GMT
Yes to get a result we will need to bat until say 1 hour before close tomorrow hopefully somewhere 450 upwards. Which means Jennings needs to score a bit faster. It's either slow or slower..has to find his inner Stokes!
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2022 6:10:04 GMT
An unbroken century partnership for the first wicket between Luke Wells and Keaton Jennings backed up some good work by the bowlers on a rain-shortened second day to give Lancashire a good platform against Warwickshire in this LV= County Championship match.
Wells and Jennings, opening together for the first time, compiled a very handy 127-run partnership before bad light and then rain ended play early at 3.50pm before the abandonment for the day at 5.20pm.
Wells looked to be in great touch, driving crisply and emphatically as he stroked 12 boundaries in his unbeaten 70 while Jennings, playing his first match of the season, was understandably much more circumspect and took time to settle in given the hamstring injury that had side-lined the left handed batter until now.
Wells reached his second half century of the season from 90 balls at the end of the 30th over with a total of 85 on the scoreboard, having produced some impressive drives through the arc between point and mid-off.
Once settled, Jennings too started to find his range, striking six fours in his unbeaten 44.
It was the perfect start to the Lancashire reply before the weather intervened after 42 overs, the ball after Wells had lofted off-spinner Rob Yates to the long-on boundary to take the total to 127 and 188 runs behind the visitors’ first innings total.
Lancashire would have been pleased to have wrapped up the Warwickshire innings inside 75 minutes for the addition of 42 runs at the start of the day.
With century-maker Dom Sibley well set the Red Rose bowlers focused their attack on the tailenders and it didn’t take long for that tactic to bear fruit as Hassan Ali had Nathan McAndrew (15) and Craig Miles (4) trapped lbw to leave the visitors on 288-9.
Last man Olly Hannon-Dalby defended well in support of Sibley who went for his shots wherever possible and the pair garnered a third batting point before Matt Parkinson (3-60) bowled Hannon-Dalby for 3 leaving Sibley stranded on 142 – the opener carrying his bat for the fourth time for the Bears – with Warwickshire 315 all out.
“The pitch is really flat and for them to choose to bat first and for us to bowl them out for 315, we’ve done really well,” was Luke Wells’ close of play assessment before going on to hail the work of the Red Rose attack.
“The bowlers have been unbelievable,” he added. “They kept coming back for second, third and fourth spells and they never let Warwickshire get a scoring rate that was threatening to us.”
“To have that extra pace of Hassan and Woody is great,” he said, “and Tom Bailey never misses top of off (stump) and Parky spins it a long way. It gives us an ability to take wickets on flat pitches and we’ve won two games on really flat tracks already this season.”
It was Hassan Ali who provided the inspiration this morning, with Wells saying: “Hassan has bowled a serious amount of overs in four matches and after bowling twenty overs yesterday he was still running in and bowling proper pace. It’s been remarkable to watch him work.”
Wells enjoyed his partnership with Keaton Jennings at the top of the order.
“I feel like I’ve batted a lot with Keats,” he said. “He’s played a lot of cricket so we keep each other quite calm out there, don’t get too flustered and it was really enjoyable.
“We call each other ‘the twins’,” he laughed. “Obviously we are both tall left-handed batters but we score in slightly different areas and our pace of play is different.
“He’s a more natural rotator and player of spin than I am, but I might score slightly quicker against certain fast bowlers. It ebbs and flows differently throughout the game.”
The deterioration of the weather provided another challenge during the afternoon.
“(Nathan) McAndrew tried to cause some problems with extra pace, banging the ball in (short) and it was quite dark,” admitted Wells. “So it was really pleasing to lose no wickets so far.”
And looking ahead to the remaining two days Wells added: “It’s a shame we lost some time today. I think we need as many deliveries as possible to try and force a result in this game. 315 is not a small total to get a long way past.”
“Hopefully we can bat once, see where we are at the back end of the day (tomorrow) and if we have an opportunity on day four to try and put their batsmen under pressure.
“But at the moment we have to take it one step at a time. “
Ken Grime
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Post by exile on May 7, 2022 17:42:16 GMT
Credit to Warwickshire for tightening up their bowling this afternoon, especially McAndrew, but Lancs should have done a lot better than 361 a/o. I don't understand why Croft was sent in at 4. Batting against the new ball is not his strength! Can't see anything other than a draw now.
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2022 18:33:27 GMT
Credit to Warwickshire for tightening up their bowling this afternoon, especially McAndrew, but Lancs should have done a lot better than 361 a/o. I don't understand why Croft was sent in at 4. Batting against the new ball is not his strength! Can't see anything other than a draw now. Have to agree unless we bowl out of skin tomorrow draw it will be |
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