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Post by cheadleleyther on Jun 25, 2024 12:04:19 GMT
How much of a lead do you guys think Lancs want/need? |
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Post by cheadleleyther on Jun 25, 2024 12:09:16 GMT
We are the exact opposite of Bazball !! Only 97 runs scored for 2 wickets at in the morning session after resuming on 402-4. Excruciating watching!!
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Post by John W on Jun 25, 2024 12:42:12 GMT
We are the exact opposite of Bazball !! Only 97 runs scored for 2 wickets at in the morning session after resuming on 402-4. Excruciating watching!! 5 sessions left, boiling hot, accumulate the runs and grind the opposition into submission. Surely we aren't complaining about Lancashire being well on top? |
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Post by Dave Towers on Jun 25, 2024 13:00:11 GMT
We are the exact opposite of Bazball !! Only 97 runs scored for 2 wickets at in the morning session after resuming on 402-4. Excruciating watching!! 5 sessions left, boiling hot, accumulate the runs and grind the opposition into submission. Surely we aren't complaining about Lancashire being well on top? Maybe Cheadle was thinking along the lines of bowling a team out on this pitch is going to be difficult, so the sooner we can get 300-350 on the sooner we can get cracking. Anyway, super six hitter Jack is there now……….. |
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Post by MickeyG on Jun 25, 2024 13:53:46 GMT
An early wicket for Williams.
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2024 15:12:51 GMT
Hot news apparently after an overseas pace bowler
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Post by MickeyG on Jun 25, 2024 16:01:31 GMT
I go for a meeting come back and they are 68 for 5. Lancs should be winning this now.
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2024 16:07:18 GMT
Kent are a shadow of what they were years ago, yep injury hit but they really are poor
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Post by alanw on Jun 25, 2024 17:03:12 GMT
I agree they are destined for division 2.
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Post by hariseldon on Jun 25, 2024 18:28:46 GMT
Wells out for 150. Great knock. Wells and Bohannon's 312 2nd wicket partnership against Kent beats the record held by Harry Makepeace and Jonny Tyldesley 209 runs at Canterbury away back in 1914. |
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Post by man in the stand on Jun 25, 2024 21:20:03 GMT
An emphatic win over Kent will be a great help especially as they will only get one point from this game. As for the teams above us Worcestershire look likely to lose and Warks may do so as well..
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Post by Admin on Jun 26, 2024 5:39:28 GMT
Vitality County Championship Division One, Spitfire County Ground, Canterbury (day three)
Kent 244 & 143-6: Compton 37; Williams 2-20
Lancashire 549-9 dec: Bohannon 205, Wells 150, Hurst 50; Garrett 3-89
Kent (1pt) trail Lancashire (7pts) by 162 runs with four second innings wickets remaining
Lancashire were closing in on a huge victory in their Vitality County Championship with Kent at Canterbury, having reduced the hosts to 143 for six at stumps on day three.
Kent still trail by 162 with just four second innings wickets remaining, Charlie Stobo and Beyers Swanepoel the not out batters on 25 and 18 respectively.
Lancashire declared on 549 for nine, a lead of 305, with Josh Bohannon making 205 and Matty Hurst 50, while George Garrett took three for 89.
Will Williams and Tom Bailey then both took two wickets apiece to leave Kent six down at stumps. Ben Compton was their highest scorer with just 37 and the chances of them escaping with anything other than a heavy defeat to their relegation rivals are bleak.
The only question at the start of day three was how long Lancashire were going to bat for, with a lead of 158 already in the bank, although for a side who’d been pummelled for four straight sessions Kent at least managed to stop Lancashire from scoring too freely.
Bohannon reached his double-hundred with a pushed single off Matt Parkinson, before his former team mate finally got him out lbw with a ball that might have been going down the leg side.
Matty Hurst eased to fifty with a single off Joey Evison but he was then stumped by Harry Finch when he tried to charge at Parkinson.
It was 499 for six at lunch, during which a band called the “Useless Pluckers” performed, prompting one Lancastrian observer to remark: “they’re not Goons’N’Roses.”
Garrett took all three of his wickets after the interval, which at least prevented an onslaught. Jack Blatherwick tried to hit him out of the ground and went for 18, caught by sub fielder Jaydn Denly.
Garrett then had George Balderson caught behind for 42 and when Bailey skied him to Parkinson, Lancashire declared.
They didn’t have to wait long for a wicket: Williams had Marcus O’Riordan caught at first slip by George Bell for four in the fourth over.
Nathan Lyon came on after 12 overs but it was George Balderson who struck next, pinning Daniel Bell-Drummond lbw for nine to leave Kent on 59 for two at tea.
Compton always looked like being the key wicket but he inexplicably tried to slog Bailey and the ball flew in the air off his bottom edge. He spread his arms wide in despair well before Bell took the catch when the ball finally fell to earth.
Williams sent Joey Evison’s off stump flying for 10, Bailey had Tawanda Muyeye caught behind for a six-ball duck and Finch lasted for 56 balls for 23 until Lyon had him caught by Bohannon at mid-on.
Swanepoel, who’d been unable to bowl, came out with O’Riordan as a runner and caused confusion by running anyway, but he and Charlie Stobo at least managed to drop anchor for the final 11.4 overs to take the game to a final day.
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Post by oldhamexile on Jun 26, 2024 9:48:30 GMT
This round of matches has been a real vindication for playing the blue riband competition at the height of summer. All matches bar one go into the final day and of those only one where a draw looks inevitable so a good contest between bat and ball mostly. Well attended too. A shame we have only one more round before we must wait until late August for more.
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Post by MickeyG on Jun 26, 2024 10:14:24 GMT
Early wicket today.
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Post by MickeyG on Jun 26, 2024 10:24:04 GMT
Should be above Worcester by the end of todays play.
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