Kent Canterbury 4 days 23/6/24

[man in the stand]

Couldn't be going any better for Lancs..

[Admin]

Hazard a guess, not losing this one

[MickeyG]

Wells out for 150. Great knock.

[MickeyG]

Disaster for Lavelle.

[Rob]

To collapse on this wicket is quite an achievment.

[denno97]

Jun 24, 2024 16:02:26 GMT MickeyG said:

Disaster for Lavelle.

Maybe Chilton is right and he’s just not good enough. So frustrating

[MickeyG]

Be disappointing if Lancs don't get at least 450.

[lancsdes]

Jun 24, 2024 16:10:31 GMT denno97 said:

Jun 24, 2024 16:02:26 GMT MickeyG said:

Disaster for Lavelle.

Maybe Chilton is right and he’s just not good enough. So frustrating”


When I’ve sen him bat in the seconds, he hasn’t looked that exceptional scoring runs but even so, I think that first ball would have got most players in first class cricket out if it was first ball faced. 

[Rob]

They need to give Lavelle a run of games. Impossible to judge on one off appearances.

[Admin]

Lancashire 402 for 4 (Bohannon 182*, Wells 150, Swanepoel 2-61) lead Kent 244 (Muyeye 59, Compton 55) by 158 runs

Josh Bohannon and Luke Wells put on a record stand of 312 for Lancashire as they pummelled Kent on day two of their Vitality County Championship game at Canterbury.
Bohannon was unbeaten on 182 while Wells hit exactly 150 as the visitors closed on 402 for four, a first-innings lead of 158.

Lancashire batted through two full sessions without losing a wicket before Kent finally took a mini-cluster after tea. Beyers Swanepoel had their best figures with two for 61.

The crowd for the second day of the Canterbury Festival was swelled to 3,414 by around 1,600 school children from 44 schools, attending as part of a county initiative.

They all witnessed a horror show first session, with Wells and Bohannon battering a callow bowling attack.

Lancashire resumed on 38 for one and the closest Kent came to a wicket was when Wells lofted O’Riordan to mid-off and Jas Singh couldn’t reel him in.



Their only international-class bowler, Matt Parkinson, wasn’t used until the final over of the morning and by then the game seemed to have drifted away from the hosts. It was 168 for one at lunch, after which the batters enjoyed a race to three figures, which Bohannon won when he cut George Garrett for four through backward point.

Wells reached the landmark in less satisfying fashion, swishing Parkinson through the vacant slip cordon for two, but they soon overtook the biggest stand for any wicket between these two sides, eclipsing the 229 between Rob Key and Ed Smith at Tunbridge Wells in 2004 and taking Lancashire to 305 for one at tea.

It was tough for the home crowd: temperatures were so hot some of the natives in the supporters’ marquee even removed their blazers and midway through the afternoon a member on the Old Dover Road side of the ground was startled when several male voices went up in unison. “That’s an appeal,” his companion reassured him. “I think we had one this morning as well.”

The CAMRA tent was by now doing some serious business, presumably because it was selling the easiest way for the Kent fans to cope, although the evening session at least offered a sliver of hope. Wells swept his way to 150, steering Parkinson for two, but he finally fell in the 84th over, caught off Marcus O’Riordan at first slip by Charlie Stobo.



Stobo got his maiden championship wicket when George Bell dragged a leg-side delivery on to his off-stump off the back of his bat, and having sat on a balcony for six hours, George Lavelle got a golden duck, edging Beyers Swanepoel to O’Riordan, who took a head-high catch at second slip.

This mini-collapsed stemmed the flow of runs, but Bohannon was dropped off the luckless Singh in the penultimate over and he and Matty Hurst batted through to leave Lancashire in a dominant position at the end of day two.

[sillypoint]

Jun 24, 2024 9:10:14 GMT alanw said:

Jun 22, 2024 20:41:42 GMT Dave Towers said:

Further to my previous comment I’ve now seen on the website that Wood is having his workload managed.

I think Jack Blatherwick needs to have his workload managed, he seems to play every game in every format. A bit of R&R followed by a spell in the seconds to work on his consistency would help the team. 


If Blatherwick was 19 or 20 I would agree with you, but he's 26 and has already had plenty of time to work on his consistency.

Kent's bowling attack looked even worse than ours, but it was good to see Wells and Bohannon batting much more sensibly. They weren't slow but strike rates of 60 & 50 showed they weren't reckless this time. Perhaps they realised there was almost a 4 ball an over from this Kent attack.

Whilst I don't hold out much hope that Lavelle is a long term answer, I agree with Des that he got a (rare) very good ball with the new ball and it would be harsh to judge him on that. It wasn't as though he played a loose shot.  

Kent's batsmen might have to help us out if we're going to bowl them out again.

[MickeyG]

How much of a lead do you guys think Lancs want/need?

[Admin]

300 think they might take some getting out

[MickeyG]

200 for Josh. Great Knock.

[lancsdes]

Josh apparently disproving my worry about the effect of 2020 Cricket on him.

I get a lift frequently to Rainford matches with the captain John Dotters and his dad John senior . Junior was in the same Academy set up and played in age games for Lancs with a vintage crop including Hameed and Bohannon , both Parkinsons, Saqib etc. John is an excellent premier league cricketer who has to take a lot of credit for Rainford’s amazing rise .

Anyway, I said to senior at the weekend my thoughts about 2020 . He said “ John will agree with you completely on that. He said to Lancs that HH should never play one day cricket as it would ruin what made his game. “ Junior was also very worried about Bohannon too but I hope that fear is now extinguished. Still don’t think he should play any more 2020.  He has been fortunate to have a weak attack to which to come back.

Cricket and 2020 are two games as different as RL and RU with superficial similarities. Some players can play both ; some should never go near the other.