Warwickshire OT days 24/5/2024

[MickeyG]

Tom Bailey back with a bang.

[man in the stand]

May 24, 2024 16:02:01 GMT MickeyG said:

Tom Bailey back with a bang.                                                                                                                                                                                Surprised they dropped Williams for Bailey but he seems to have his mojo back...good to see.

[John W]

May 24, 2024 16:19:03 GMT man in the stand said:

May 24, 2024 16:02:01 GMT MickeyG said:

Tom Bailey back with a bang.                                                                                                                                                                                Surprised they dropped Williams for Bailey but he seems to have his mojo back...good to see.

I wish there was similar mojo with these 2 umpires

[Admin]

Vitality County Championship Division One, Emirates Old Trafford (day one)

Warwickshire 89-3 (39 overs): Davies 47*; Bailey 3-25

Lancashire: Yet to bat

Lancashire 1 pt, Warwickshire 0 pts

Tom Bailey made an impactful return to the Lancashire side taking all three wickets to fall on a rain-shortened opening day in this Vitality County Championship match against Warwickshire with the visitors making 89 for three from the 39 overs bowled.
It was a slow and, at times, attritional day as the visitors – having won the toss – made steady progress, with just 40 scoring shots coming off the 234 balls bowled.

The Warwickshire captain Alex Davies is unbeaten on 47 having hit 7 fours with Dan Mousley 1 not out.



Bailey, left out of the team at Blackpool last week, first struck in the eleventh over of a day in which rain prevented play until 2.10pm.

The tall Red Rose bowler angled the ball back into Rob Yates from around the wicket to bowl the left-hand batter for 19 offering no shot.



That was the only wicket of the session to fall with Davies and Will Rhodes reaching the break in a much better position of 73 for one.

Two wickets in 14 balls by Bailey soon after the resumption changed the complexion of the day.

Will Rhodes inside edged behind to Matty Hurst for 14 followed in identical fashion by Ed Barnard who rather fenced at a delivery outside off stump after making two.

Moments later rain arrived to take the players from the field and once it stopped bad light prevented any further action with play abandoned at 6.15 pm.



“I thought we started pretty well,” said Tom Bailey.

“Coming off a good win last week, we’ve taken that momentum into today,” he added.

Bailey revealed that Lancashire would have batted if they had won the toss, but said: “It’s a good pitch and I was quite surprised with the carry we had today.

“It’s a used pitch and I think our spinners will make the most of that.

“It will get harder to bat on as the game goes on.”



Three wickets today was a boost to the tall seam bowler who said: “It’s not been a great start for me.

“So it was nice for Benks to give me a break last week and work on a few things.

“It’s obviously paid off today.

“I knew I wasn’t bowling how I normally do. So we felt it would be better to go and work on a few things.

“Having that week off, being able to clear my head and come back refreshed has helped.”



And Bailey believes last week’s win could be a turning point in the season.

“The win last week was huge,” he admitted. “We feel (as a team) that we are in a good place. It the one percenters, the things have changed, because the team and coaching staff have changed completely.

“So it’s just getting used to all those changes, because we feel that we are in a good environment to be able to be successful. It’s just going to take a bit of time.”

[John W]

Hampshire and Durham hold the upper hand in their games. It is quite likely that after these round of matches (and the half way point of the season before May is out), Lancashire will be anchored to the bottom 2 of Div 1 and in a 3 way scrap with Worcs and Kent.

[Dave Towers]

Given the forecasted improved batting conditions today, (no doubt for Warwickshire’s benefit), and the not too good forecast for Monday and Tuesday, it’s already most likely that this game is heading towards a draw.

Mind you, if only we could have had draws, however dull, for the three games we have lost. Our plight would look so much better with 24 draw points.

[John W]

May 25, 2024 8:24:25 GMT Dave Towers said:

Given the forecasted improved batting conditions today, (no doubt for Warwickshire’s benefit), and the not too good forecast for Monday and Tuesday, it’s already most likely that this game is heading towards a draw.

Mind you, if only we could have had draws, however dull, for the three games we have lost. Our plight would look so much better with 24 draw points.

But in those 3 defeats we were not just beaten we were well and truly hammered. Factor in the big possibility that the rain helped us against Surrey and imo we are lucky to have the points we've currently got.

[esteban]

104 Overs today.

Lunch at 1.10pm.

Tea at 4pm.

[exile]

Typical OT pitch: hard to score on; hard to take wickets on.  Makes for tedious cricket.

[man in the stand]

Pitch was used for Thunder game last Sunday. 15mm of rain midweek won't have helped.

[MickeyG]

Wells in shocking form.

[alanw]

Disappointing to see Bell get out at the end when he had steadied the ship after coming in 12-2.

[lancsdes]

May 25, 2024 16:01:58 GMT MickeyG said:

“Wells in shocking form.”

Jennings said how well he batted in the first innings at Blackpool . Obviously captain has to say that but he hardly hit one shot where he intended and was not getting properly forward at all. Maybe he should have been picked as a bowling all rounder but it looked like cruelty to me to put him opening again. 

[HC]

May 23, 2024 9:19:14 GMT sillypoint said:

One team which nearly threw away a big advantage in their last match against a team who actually did throw away an even bigger advantage.

Warwicks confidence won't be too high. Can we take advantage? No doubt Davies will score a century.

[Admin]

Vitality County Championship Division One, Emirates Old Trafford (day two)

Warwickshire 284: Davies 127*, Bethell 40; Bailey 3-49

Lancashire 66-3: Bell 40; Hannon-Dalby 2-19

Lancashire (3 pts) trail Warwickshire (2 pts) by 218 runs

Alex Davies scored an unbeaten 127, his tenth first-class century, to hold the Warwickshire first innings together superbly as the Lancashire bowlers combined to bowl the visitors out for 284 on the second day of this Vitality County Championship match at Emirates Old Trafford.
In reply Lancashire had reached 66 for three at the close with Keaton Jennings 12 not out but George Bell falling for 40 in the final over of the day to trail by 218 runs.
It was a marathon effort by Davies, the Bears captain, who reached his fifth century for Warwickshire from 256 balls in six hours and 22 minutes as Lancashire whittled away slowly at the rest of the visitors batting on a fairly benign surface.



Resuming on 89 for three, the morning session was one where not a great deal happened after George Balderson had struck in the third over of the day when Dan Mousley edged a tentative drive into the hands of Keaton Jennings at first slip for two.

Davies dropped anchor to help rebuild the innings from 93 for four, reaching his fifty in one minute over three hours off 123 balls – the third-slowest half century of his career.

It nearly came to an end when the Warwickshire skipper had reached 54, after a running mix-up with Jacob Bethell saw Davies well short of his ground if the throw to the bowler’s end had been more accurate.



But on a pretty unresponsive surface the Lancashire attack produced some accurate bowling that coupled with Warwickshire’s careful approach meant the 33 over session produced just 77 runs.

It was the second over after lunch before Lancashire enjoyed another breakthrough when Jack Morley, on his return to the side from his loan spell at Derbyshire, trapped Bethell lbw for 40 with a ball that spun sharply and kept a touch low to end a 74-run partnership.



Michael Burgess played across the line to be lbw to Balderson for 24 and Jake Lintott gloved a reverse sweep off Nathan Lyon to ‘keeper Matty Hurst for 9 to leave the visitors on 231 for seven in the 98th over.

Some hearty blows from Hassan Ali, who hit 29 including one six and 4 fours, in a 40-run alliance with Davies helped put some momentum into the innings until Ali was well caught by Tom Bruce at long-on off Luke Wells from the first ball after tea.

Wells then collected his 100th wicket in first-class cricket by having Michael Rae lbw for 0 and Morley wrapped up the innings by trapping Olly Hannon-Dalby in front for a duck, leaving Davies unbeaten on 127 and carrying his bat for the first time. It was however, a curiously slow innings that gained Warwickshire one batting point and Lancashire three bowling points.



But Lancashire started badly, Wells edging the second ball of the innings from Hannon-Dalby to second slip and, after scoring 12 runs, Josh Bohannon fell to the same combination to leave the hosts on 12 for two.

Jennings, who took 45 minutes and 32 balls before scoring a run, played a patient game in making 12 not out alongside George Bell who produced some attractive strokes as the pair steadied the innings, reaching their fifty partnership from 123 balls.

But in the last over of the day Bell, who had played so well top edged a sweep off left arm spinner Lintott that was well caught by a diving Hannon-Dalby at backward square leg for 40.



“I think we’ve bowled really well over the last two days,” said Jack Morley.

“I’ve not been around the dressing room that much, but from the talk in the changing room the lads are really happy; that’s how they’ve wanted to bowl.

“It was really good to hear that positive talk.”

Morley is back from a loan spell with Derbyshire, and he added: “After I got my first wicket, I gave Keats a hug and said, ‘it’s great to be back’.

“I was around the lads for a couple of days at Blackpool last week, went back to Derby because there was a chance of playing in their game, and then got a call from Mark Chilton to say ‘we want to play two spinners against Warwickshire on a used wicket’ – which was also nice to hear – so I came back.”



“Credit to Derbyshire, what they’re doing is really good, it’s a good environment and Mickey (Arthur) was really good with me.”

Looking ahead to the remainder of the game, Morley said: “It’s a decent pitch, there’s a little bit in there for everyone.

“The first hour today they were going at just over two (per over), and at Emirates Old Trafford where it can fly away as well, I think the bowlers, especially the seamers at the start of the day, did really well.

“Hopefully we can put some runs on tomorrow and then do the same when we bowl in the second innings.