Notts Trent Brdge 10/5/24 4 days

[MickeyG]

Bruce out.

[Admin]

Vitality County Championship Division One, Trent Bridge (day one)

Lancashire 306-8: Jennings 91, Bruce 73; Pennington 3-46

Nottinghamshire: Yet to bat

Lancashire 2pts, Nottinghamshire 2pts

Skipper Keaton Jennings and Tom Bruce hit fifties for Lancashire but Dillon Pennington was Nottinghamshire’s outstanding performer as Lancashire were denied the prosperity they had been hoping for when they opted to bat on day one of their Vitality County Championship match at Trent Bridge.
Jennings made 91 and overseas batter Bruce 73 but Lancashire closed on 306 for eight, after being 190 for two earlier in the day.

Pennington (three for 46) inflicted damage by taking three for 15 in an excellent five-over spell with the second new ball before seamer Dane Paterson (two for 64) dealt Lancashire a further blow by removing Bruce in the day’s penultimate over.

With Australian spinner Nathan Lyon rested for this round, Lancashire have named England pace bowler Saqib Mahmood in their line-up for the first time in 12 months following a stress fracture.

It had looked like evolving as Lancashire’s day until the last half-hour of the middle session, when Jennings and George Balderson (38), who had shared a third-wicket stand worth 107, were both out in quick succession.



The morning session had been theirs until Josh Bohannon’s dismissal by Lyndon James from what would have been the penultimate ball before lunch. Bohannon had picked up four boundaries against the Nottinghamshire all-rounder, albeit one off an edge, but was struck on the front pad as he looked for a fifth through the on-side and was clearly out.

Despite pace bowlers Pennington and the fit-again Olly Stone subjecting Lancashire’s openers to a testing opening passage on a used pitch with a decent covering of grass, Nottinghamshire’s only breakthrough prior to that had come in the 10th over, when Paterson found the edge to have Luke Wells caught at second slip.

Encouraged by James’s breakthrough, which had ended what had been a threatening partnership between the aggressive Bohannon and a more measured Jennings, Nottinghamshire emerged from lunch with renewed energy. Yet it was Lancashire’s third-wicket pair who dominated for the next couple of hours.

Jennings, having built a painstaking 128-ball half-century, which he completed with his 10th boundary, upped the tempo. A paddle sweep for four and a nicely driven straight six off Calvin Harrison’s leg spin signalled growing assuredness and he looked well set for a second hundred of the season.



But Nottinghamshire’s bowlers never let their effort levels dip and fought back in the half-hour before tea.

Jennings departed going for a reverse sweep against Harrison but able only to top-edge it to slip where Tom Moores - back in the Nottinghamshire side for the first time this season but unable to prise the wicketkeeper’s gloves from Joe Clarke - took an easy catch.

But the departure of Balderson was purely down to the skill of the bowler, Stone’s impressive contribution deservedly rewarded when the batter was beaten for pace as he tried to flick across the line, squarely in front as the ball collided with the front pad. The two wickets transformed 190 for two into 196 for four.

Lancashire’s double setback meant two new batters at the crease, but with Bruce taking the lead, reaching a half-century off 69 balls, it took the second new ball for Nottinghamshire to restore a measure of parity on the day, Pennington striking twice in the space of nine deliveries as George Bell edged to first slip and Matthew Hurst to third.



The ex-Worcestershire quick picked up his third scalp when England spinner Tom Hartley found the safe hands of Harrison at second slip, after which Bruce reined himself in noticeably. Lancashire picked up a second batting point but the loss of Bruce, leg before to Paterson, was another big blow.

Before play began, players and spectators observed a minute’s silence in respect for Josh Baker, the Worcestershire spin bowler who died last week at the age of just 20. Baker represented his county against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge only last month.

It was a particularly poignant moment for Pennington and Jack Haynes, who now wear Nottinghamshire colours but shared the New Road dressing room with Baker before switching counties at the end of last season.

[lancsdes]

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We are being outcoached 😃

[Dave Towers]

273 for 4 after 81.2 overs; looks like we just couldn’t cope with the new ball.

[hengog]

Good morning. My first post here , but a life long follower of Lancs cricket ( as well as Glamorgan , being Welsh, but always lived nearer Old Trafford than Sofia Gardens). My first day‘s cricket this season yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. I see others were disappointed by Lancs performance , and they may be right. I was sat with Notts supporters and the general feeling was that things were fairly even. We’ll see. Can’t go today, which is a pity, so will try to watch some on the live feed .

Hopefully we can restrict Notts to something similar or less, though I’d like to see Hameed and Joe Clarke get runs. Hameed as I was very excited when I first saw him , with such a superb technique for a young lad, and I am still puzzled how things went awry, and Clarke, as I first saw him as a young boy in club cricket in Shropshire - and again he looked to have everything: I used to tell anyone who’d listen about this future England star- and then of course he nearly ruined his career and it’s cost him dearly I think.

[man in the stand]

Pleased to see Bruce getting some runs

[Admin]

331 suspect may be under par

[MickeyG]

For Notts to build a good lead they will have to bat for a while probably so a draw my favorite currently.

[John W]

Slightly dumb cricket from Bailey. Took 2 when 1 would have been more beneficial then he could have swung from the hip as he had been doing against Pennington

[MickeyG]

Mahmood strikes!

[anyportinastorm]

Bailey and Mahmood have started well. One the least they deserve. Great to see Mahmood back and looking relatively smooth if not full pace yet.

[anyportinastorm]

Another soft chance in the slips dropped.

[MickeyG]

Williams gets one.

[anyportinastorm]

Lancs bowled well before lunch. Could easily have had 4 down with safe hands a bit of luck.

[anyportinastorm]

May 11, 2024 12:27:37 GMT anyportinastorm said:

Lancs bowled well before lunch. Could easily have had 4 down with safe hands a bit of luck.

And start bowling pies after lunch