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Post by man in the stand on Jul 3, 2024 18:06:13 GMT
Wow, some finish in the Gloucester/Glamorgan game. A new record I believe....interesting that Warks, in the relegation mix with us, have yet to record a win. |
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 3, 2024 18:45:27 GMT
“Somerset win.” My second favourite county and always enjoy a defeat for Warwickshire 🙂 Fabulous day of County Cricket ; pity we got the only damp squib. Weeks of insanity to follow with league cricket as the only oasis. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2024 19:15:35 GMT
Wow, some finish in the Gloucester/Glamorgan game. Bracey’s catch was taken whilst not wearing wicket keeping gloves |
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Post by Dave Towers on Jul 3, 2024 21:45:47 GMT
Fabulous day of County Cricket ; pity we got the only damp squib. Indeed. would appear to have been as dull as dishwater at Southport. |
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Post by MickeyG on Jul 3, 2024 22:00:21 GMT
Wow, some finish in the Gloucester/Glamorgan game. Bracey’s catch was taken whilst not wearing wicket keeping gloves The commentators mentioned that before the last ball and thought the umpires were discussing it. Maybe its ok as long as he's wearing at least one? He had it on his left hand. He ran off after taking the catch like he'd scored the winner in the world cup final. |
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 4, 2024 0:24:02 GMT
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Post by exile on Jul 4, 2024 7:55:55 GMT
Up to the rain break it felt like we still had a chance, albeit a diminishing one, but when play resumed it was mostly just going through the motions. Difficult to say what might have happened if we hadn't lost a day and a half. Certainly Lancs would not have enforced the follow-on so our bowlers would have been a lot fresher and maybe the pitch would have turned for Lyon (and Green) on the fourth day. On balance, I would say that fortune favoured Notts. Incidentally, Southport may have a reputation for producing fourth day bunsens but has there actually been one in recent years?
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Post by oldhamexile on Jul 4, 2024 8:10:29 GMT
David Griffin of Derbyshire, who is well worth following on Twitter, has noted they play a comparable number of days of cricket (14) over the next 49 days, the height of the summer, as they did in the months of April (16) and May (14). This for me is a perfect illustration of the major issues with the fixture list - too much cricket at the extremities of the season, not enough in the warm summer months.
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 4, 2024 8:54:43 GMT
Agreed OE ; the Execrable Cricket Board should hang its head in shame.
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Post by sillypoint on Jul 4, 2024 8:59:06 GMT
David Griffin of Derbyshire, who is well worth following on Twitter, has noted they play a comparable number of days of cricket (14) over the next 49 days, the height of the summer, as they did in the months of April (16) and May (14). This for me is a perfect illustration of the major issues with the fixture list - too much cricket at the extremities of the season, not enough in the warm summer months. Agreed, though it hasn't felt warm and summery recently!! |
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Post by sillypoint on Jul 4, 2024 9:03:54 GMT
Bracey’s catch was taken whilst not wearing wicket keeping gloves The commentators mentioned that before the last ball and thought the umpires were discussing it. Maybe its ok as long as he's wearing at least one? He had it on his left hand. He ran off after taking the catch like he'd scored the winner in the world cup final. Heartening to see it matters so much to mid-div 2nd division players. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2024 14:49:08 GMT
Vitality County Championship Division One, Southport (day four)
Lancashire: 353-9 dec Jennings 187*, Balderson 41; James 4-61
Nottinghamshire 126 & 270-4 Clarke 115*, James 47*, Hameed 41; Lyon 2-65
Lancashire (14 pts) drew with Nottinghamshire (10 pts)
Match scorecard
Joe Clarke made his fourth century of the season and blunted the threat posed by James Anderson to ensure that Nottinghamshire drew their County Championship match with Lancashire at Southport.
Clarke passed fifty for the seventh time in 14 first-class innings this season and had put on an unbroken 136 for the fifth wicket with Lyndon James.
They had steered the visitors to 270-4 when the players shook hands at 4.50pm, leaving Clarke 115 not out, bringing his first-class aggregate for the season to 795, and James unbeaten on 43.
By contrast to his astonishing spell on Tuesday morning, Anderson had figures of 1-25 from 11 overs in two spells on the final day, but the eight points the sides collect for the draw enables both of them to pull a little further away from Division One’s relegation zone.
Notts, though, were deducted one point for a slow over-rate.
Anderson took his only wicket of the second innings with his 17th ball of the day when Will Young pushed tentatively forward and edged a catch to Matthew Hurst.
Clarke and Jack Haynes then steadied the ship and the latter hooked Tom Bailey for a six onto the Southport to Liverpool railway linen narrowly missing a fast-moving train by seconds.
In the next over, though, Haynes was caught behind off Chris Green, thus giving the Australian off-spinner his maiden first-class wicket for Lancashire on his Championship debut.
No more wickets fell until lunch by which time home spectators could reflect on a session in which they had been treated to the sight of Nathan Lyon bowling in tandem with Anderson, a pairing that has taken a combined 1,230 Test wickets.
Regardless of who he was facing though, Clarke continued to bat with careful fluency, lapping Lyon for four to fine leg, pulling him onto the railway line and reaching his fifty in 107 balls.
Nottinghamshire lunched on 164-4 and were therefore only 63 runs in arrears.
But the prospect of Anderson with the new ball in his hand was enough to have those supporters looking anxiously at the sky and wondering when the forecast rain might arrive.
Anderson duly took the new ball two overs into the afternoon session but had delivered five wicketless overs for 16 runs when rain swept in from the west at 2.20pm.
Contrary to some expectations, play resumed at 4.00pm with a minimum of 33 overs to be bowled and Clarke and James played with increasing freedom, taking their side into the lead before Clarke reached his century off 185 balls with a square cut off Luke Wells.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2024 14:50:32 GMT
David Griffin of Derbyshire, who is well worth following on Twitter, has noted they play a comparable number of days of cricket (14) over the next 49 days, the height of the summer, as they did in the months of April (16) and May (14). This for me is a perfect illustration of the major issues with the fixture list - too much cricket at the extremities of the season, not enough in the warm summer months. No nonsense bloke David, took apicture of Barry Wood on Sunday who looked really well he's 82 shortly could have dropped when I read that |
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2024 14:51:48 GMT
Bracey’s catch was taken whilst not wearing wicket keeping gloves The commentators mentioned that before the last ball and thought the umpires were discussing it. Maybe its ok as long as he's wearing at least one? He had it on his left hand. He ran off after taking the catch like he'd scored the winner in the world cup final. And why not celebrate deserved to as did both teams |
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Post by Dave Towers on Jul 4, 2024 15:31:47 GMT
The bit in the report about pulling further away from the relegation zone is incorrect.
After the previous round of games we were 14 points above the bottom two. Now we are just ten.
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