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Post by oldhamexile on Jun 28, 2023 12:05:47 GMT
Yes - definitely the most exciting game of the season so far. Surrey will be wondering why they lost by over 100 runs in a game they had mostly bossed. I hope Lancs will still look at what they could have done better (quite a lot, in my view) and won't let a brilliant win gloss over their mistakes. Agree with this but so much better to be doing that after a second consecutive win against strong competition. Showed the value of durable innings from Williams and Salt, taking the game into less favourable conditions for batting. |
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Post by Dave Towers on Jun 28, 2023 12:08:26 GMT
First defeat for Surrey in the CC this season. 1st 5 wkt haul for Bailey this season and Williams 61 was more than he scored in his previous 6 innings in the CC this season. He scored 30 against them in the OT match, I think it’s 99 against them this season! |
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Post by exile on Jun 28, 2023 12:55:25 GMT
Yes - definitely the most exciting game of the season so far. Surrey will be wondering why they lost by over 100 runs in a game they had mostly bossed. I hope Lancs will still look at what they could have done better (quite a lot, in my view) and won't let a brilliant win gloss over their mistakes. Agree with this but so much better to be doing that after a second consecutive win against strong competition. Showed the value of durable innings from Williams and Salt, taking the game into less favourable conditions for batting. Spot on: with so much time left in the game, the important thing in the second innings was to occupy the crease, avoid risky shots and not have to bowl until after tea. That's what Williams and Salt did, whereas Bohannon, Wells, Mitchell and Balderson all got out to shots they didn't need to play. We also need to look at why we aren't scoring enough 1st innings runs. Watching the way Lancs bowled and fielded last night and this morning, I did think they looked extra motivated. Were they cross with themselves or had Surrey provoked them in some way?
Anyway, if we win our game in hand, we will go second in the table. |
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Post by Butter_Fingers on Jun 28, 2023 13:03:42 GMT
Not sure how you can say Surrey had mostly bossed the game when they were 107-5 in their first innings, and 43-5 in their second.
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2023 13:22:29 GMT
Lancashire 274 (Salt 56, Clark 4-47) and 293 (Williams 61, Salt 54, Worrall 3-69) beat Surrey 360 (Abott 87, Jacks 64, S Curran 52, Worrall 51) and 84 (Bailey 5-48, Williams 4-23) by 123 runs
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Lancashire's Tom Bailey and Will Williams took just 45 minutes to complete their team's 123-run triumph against Surrey on day four at the Kia Oval - the county champions' first defeat at their home ground in first-class cricket in 19 matches, going back to August 2020.
Williams picked up 4 for 13 in just 4.3 overs on the final morning as Surrey were routed for 84, giving him overall figures of 4 for 23 while Bailey finished with 5 for 48.
The two quicks took only 9.3 overs to snatch Surrey's last five second-innings wickets to end a run of 18 first-class games at the Oval in which the current LV= Insurance County Championship Division One leaders have won 12 and drawn the other six.
Bailey, whose heroic 11-over new-ball spell of 4 for 34 on the third evening had helped to reduce Surrey to 57 for 5 overnight - still 151 runs away from their 208 fourth-innings target - made the initial breakthrough in his second over of the morning, having nightwatcher Tom Lawes caught behind for 10.
And then Williams got into the act, bowling Will Jacks for 20 in the next over as the Surrey all-rounder shouldered arms to one that jagged back into him off the seam.
Batting was not straightforward against a ball still fewer than 30 overs old and in overcast conditions, with the Oval floodlights on, and later in the same over Williams grabbed the wicket Lancashire wanted above all others on the final morning as Sam Curran was bowled off stump for 12 by another superb ball angled across him by the New Zealander and then nipping back.
Williams, however, was still not finished. In his third over of the day the 30-year-old - who made 61 in a four-hour stint as nightwatcher, a maiden first-class half-century, in Lancashire's second-innings 293 - had Sean Abbott taken by keeper Phil Salt for a duck.
Abbott had hit an unbeaten 87 in Surrey's first innings of 360, adding a remarkable 130 for the tenth wicket with Dan Worrall, but now the Australian was gone to his third ball and at 75 for 9, having lost four wickets in 20 balls, Surrey could only hope for another final wicket miracle.
It did not come this time, with Worrall finishing six not out as Jordan Clark, aiming a big hit, skied Williams to mid off to go for four and spark Lancashire celebrations. This was Lancashire's second win of the championship season, and they remain unbeaten; for title favourites Surrey, however, it is a sobering setback.
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Post by exile on Jun 28, 2023 15:55:59 GMT
Not sure how you can say Surrey had mostly bossed the game when they were 107-5 in their first innings, and 43-5 in their second. Lancs began by scoring well below par. After that, they fought hard but every time they seemed to be getting their noses in front, Surrey managed to wrest back the advantage and were clear favourites to win when they began their run chase last night. I think they were completely taken aback to lose 5 wickets in the first 23 overs but I think they still began today expecting to win. |
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Post by Dave Towers on Jun 28, 2023 21:47:40 GMT
A mention for Tom Bailey who took his 400th first-team wicket for Lancashire during the Surrey second innings.
Won't be selected for England, hasn't ended up with a Hundred gig and keeps himself fit.
An excellent county player for Lancashire.
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Post by lancsdes on Jun 28, 2023 23:32:23 GMT
Team spirit has been commented on in 2020 but it must be pretty good I’d have thought in championship . Tenth wicket stands like that one by Surrey knock the stuffing out of many teams. Bailey and Williams have had plenty of deserved praise but a word for Blatherwick who the Surrey commentators said bowled really well to Rory Burns . With him and Balderson in the same side, we have to expect a bit of inconsistency from the support seamers but they both have something and Williams and Bailey are a superb example to them.
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Post by Butter_Fingers on Jun 29, 2023 0:13:57 GMT
Not sure how you can say Surrey had mostly bossed the game when they were 107-5 in their first innings, and 43-5 in their second. Lancs began by scoring well below par. After that, they fought hard but every time they seemed to be getting their noses in front, Surrey managed to wrest back the advantage and were clear favourites to win when they began their run chase last night. I think they were completely taken aback to lose 5 wickets in the first 23 overs but I think they still began today expecting to win. Forget the par score, the only time you can normally gauge if a teams first innings score is good enough is on the completion of the second innings of the match. yeah a once in a decade occurrence swung the game in Surrey's favour but did you not think Lancashire's 274 was a fairly decent score when Surrey were 230-9? You would probably say at that point Lancashire were on top. After that bloody partnership Surrey did get on top and when Lancashire were 145-5 and only 59 ahead in the second innings there only looked like one winner, but credit to the lads as from there on in Lancashire dominated.
I thought it was game on when we set Surrey a target of over 200, and said so, you probably expected them to knock them off only losing a few wickets doing so. I'm sorry they let you down. LOL |
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Post by exile on Jun 29, 2023 9:54:54 GMT
You asked me to explain why I thought Surrey had mostly bossed the game. I have explained why I thought that and, yes, like most people, I didn't think Surrey would capitulate so quickly. I thought that they would lose wickets seeing off Bailey and Williams but would then romp home against our second string seamers. That's what Surrey thought too, as Burns admitted afterwards. I'm delighted to have been wrong, thanks to one of the finest spells of new ball bowling that Lancs have produced since the days when Chapple and Hogg were playing, and even more delighted that our CC season is still alive.
You did say that any target above 200 would be competitive but this wasn't based on any evidence or rational thought - it was just the undying optimism of the committed sports fan. No doubt, had you been a Surrey supporter at Canterbury, you would have said that a second innings target of 501 was "game on" and you'd have been right then too.
Let's leave it at that.
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Post by MickeyG on Jun 29, 2023 10:13:09 GMT
Team spirit has been commented on in 2020 but it must be pretty good I’d have thought in championship . Tenth wicket stands like that one by Surrey knock the stuffing out of many teams. Bailey and Williams have had plenty of deserved praise but a word for Blatherwick who the Surrey commentators said bowled really well to Rory Burns . With him and Balderson in the same side, we have to expect a bit of inconsistency from the support seamers but they both have something and Williams and Bailey are a superb example to them. Blatherwicks 35 in the 1st innings was important as well. He was decent against the best team in the country on their own midden, I hope he gets more chances. |
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Post by Phil on Jun 29, 2023 11:56:36 GMT
Been to all four days at the Oval and thoroughly enjoyed it, the win was the crowning glory! The members area has got to be the best in the championship, 5 floors, 7 bars, 6 restaurants and numerous excellent viewing places. At Lancs only the 1864 members have the best view and pay a fortune, there it is the same for all members. Well worth a visit.
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Post by exile on Jun 29, 2023 12:01:39 GMT
I think most of the comments about team spirit have been in relation to the T20 and/or the manouvering out of Parkinson for what don't look like cricketing reasons. We did seem to be drifting in the CC but this win against Surrey, following the one against Hampshire, will have done wonders for team spirit. I agree that Blatherwick has real promise but he needs nurturing in the same way that Chapple was. I didn't think it was fair to rely on him and Balderson as the only back-up seam in a match that we really had to win to keep the CC alive for us, especially if Luke Wood was available. Still, "All's well..."
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Post by MickeyG on Jun 29, 2023 13:11:04 GMT
Has Wood played any CC this year? I'm struggling to think.
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Post by exile on Jun 29, 2023 13:56:25 GMT
Played in the opening match against Surrey, taking two wickets in the first innings, but hasn't played a CC match since. Not sure why.
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