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Post by man in the stand on Sept 19, 2024 17:57:41 GMT
If we win this we will have 3 wins compared to Warks with 1. We get relegated and they retain 1st division status!!
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Post by Phil on Sept 19, 2024 18:51:02 GMT
Somerset 6 down at stumps, still needing 189. The pitch is fairly flat but hasn't died like so many OT pitches do and, now the effect of the heavy roller has worn off, there is just enough there to reward good bowling. Lancs bowled pretty well as a unit, with Balderson outstanding, but Jennings dropped a sitter from Vaughan - perhaps the result of deep fatigue - and we dropped three difficult ones, two of them very difficult. We are now favourites to win but it's almost certainly too late and, even if we do escape relegation, it won't make up for a truly awful season. Is the reason the pitch hasn't died is because it is a hybrid one? |
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Post by John W on Sept 19, 2024 19:12:19 GMT
If we win this we will have 3 wins compared to Warks with 1. We get relegated and they retain 1st division status!! They've got more batting points than us, more bowling points than us and drawn more than us. All our six defeats have been hammerings and we crucially lost to both Kent and Notts when both times we won the toss and cocked it up. In eight out of thirteen matches we haven't picked up a single batting point, that goes a long way to explaining why Warks are staying up and Lancs are going down. |
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Post by exile on Sept 19, 2024 19:56:59 GMT
Somerset 6 down at stumps, still needing 189. The pitch is fairly flat but hasn't died like so many OT pitches do and, now the effect of the heavy roller has worn off, there is just enough there to reward good bowling. Lancs bowled pretty well as a unit, with Balderson outstanding, but Jennings dropped a sitter from Vaughan - perhaps the result of deep fatigue - and we dropped three difficult ones, two of them very difficult. We are now favourites to win but it's almost certainly too late and, even if we do escape relegation, it won't make up for a truly awful season. Is the reason the pitch hasn't died is because it is a hybrid one? Could well be. It's not looking grey and shiny in the way that Lancs pitches usually do after a couple of days, especially on the strips away from the centre. |
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Post by MickeyG on Sept 19, 2024 21:02:19 GMT
Losing to both Kent and Notts is unforgiveable. Any coach with any self worth would resign.
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2024 6:27:25 GMT
The final day of the season at headquarters, will it be a victory or are we going to REW another morale sapping defeat.
Somerset 146 and 204 for 6 (Vaughan 68, Wells 2-23) need 189 runs to beat Lancashire 140 and 398 (Wells 130, Bohannon 60, Leach 3-57)
Lancashire have put themselves on course for a vital win in the Vitality County Championship match against Somerset following a century from Luke Wells backed up by an excellent effort with the ball that has left the visitors to Emirates Old Trafford needing 189 runs to win with four wickets remaining.
Wells’ hundred in a century partnership with George Balderson allowed Lancashire to set a victory target of 393 runs in five sessions, but a disciplined Red Rose bowling performance has reduced Somerset to 204 for six with Wells and Balderson each picking up a brace.
Lancashire were bowled out for 398 on the stroke of lunch but there was a strange start to the Somerset second innings with Andy Umeed giving Tom Bailey the charge to both his first and second deliveries, the first being hammered for four through cover but the second seeing Umeed comprehensively bowled when Bailey dragged his length back a touch.
After that bizarre beginning, Archie Vaughan and Tom Lammonby settled in to take Somerset steadily along through the afternoon although Vaughan had a let off in the slips on 16 while Lammonby offered a harder chance on 24.
But the pair had sailed on calmly thereafter to build an excellent platform for the visitors by compiling a century partnership from 160 balls before Lancashire hit back with two wickets just before tea.
Lammonby played over a Wells delivery on 49 that crashed into his stumps followed by Tom Abell who was plumb lbw for 5 during a pacey spell from Anderson Phillip.
That left Somerset on 120 for three and 26 runs later the visitors lost opener Vaughan who, having reached his maiden first-class fifty, went half forward to Balderson and edged to George Bell at first slip for 68.
A buoyed Balderson then produced a snorter to find an edge off Tom Kohler-Cadmore, on 23, that was snapped up again by Bell this time around his ankles.
With 19 overs left in the day James Rew (24 not out) and Kasey Aldridge dug in, largely intent on survival, and despite a few close calls against Phillip and Wells the pair looked to have weathered the storm until Aldridge on 19 played loosely at a Wells delivery in the final over to give wicketkeeper Matty Hurst a crucial catch.
With Surrey beating Durham today, only a win will keep Somerset’s Championship hopes alive while a win is also the only way Lancashire can maintain their division one survival hopes.
Wells and Balderson started the day somewhat cagily after resuming the Red Rose second innings on 298 for seven with a lead of 292.
Balderson drove the sixth ball of the day from Craig Overton for four to post the 50 partnership off 131 balls, and once settled the pair built the lead steadily over the course of the morning in relative comfort.
Wells went to his eighth Lancashire century off 196 balls after the first hour of play having pulled Lewis Gregory for six over backward square leg and reaching three figures when cutting Aldridge for four.
Balderson continued his great supporting role contributing just 22 to the century partnership with Wells that came from 254 balls and the pair went on to set a new 8th wicket partnership record of 135 runs for Lancashire v Somerset beating the 132 between David Lloyd & Barry Wood at Weston-super-Mare in 1976.
The three wickets Somerset desperately needed arrived in a hurry just before lunch with Wells' fine effort ending when he was lbw for 130 reverse sweeping at Jack Leach who then had Bailey trapped in front for 1.
Balderson was last out aiming a bit hit at Brett Randell and bowled for 47 with Lancashire 398 all out and setting Somerset a winning target of 393.
“It was great to get a wicket on the last ball," said Luke Wells.
“I’m counting on that beating the right handers outside edge which doesn’t happen too often to me. It was a great catch by Hursty behind the stumps because it bounced a lot.
“All in all that was a very good day and we are in the box seat to win this tomorrow.
“We can’t control what’s already happened this season, we can only put our best foot forward.
“It’s been quite a funny game," he added.
"It was a slightly damper pitch than the ones we normally play on here on day one and it produced the seaming conditions that helped produce all those wickets."
“It did flatten out and I’m very pleased to be able to get us into a pretty commanding lead."
Wells admitted his new role down the order had felt very different to what he is used to.
“It feels great (to have got a century) but pretty strange to be batting at seven because of the nightwatchman. I’ve never done that before. I’d batted at six in my career once before this game.
“It felt odd. I was quite excited and a bit relieved because it hasn’t gone well up top, but also a little bit guilty because I haven’t been able to do my main bread and butter job as well as I’d like this year, especially in the four-day game.
“I’ve been happy I’ve been able to contribute in other facets of the game. I’ve bowled particularly well this year and played well in white ball cricket but my bread and butter role that I’ve done for so many years I’ve not been able to score as many as I’d like.
“So to come in at seven and get a score, well it’s definitely easier down there! Bowlers are a little more tired, you don’t have to worry about a brand new ball and worry about getting through it.
“So it was pleasing and odd at the same time."
With one day left and four wickets needed, Wells is cautioning against any complacency tomorrow.
“They’ve got a lot of very good all-round cricketers as well so it’s by no means finished," he said.
"We are going to have to keep going until the very last wicket has been taken.”
Ken Grime
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Post by man in the stand on Sept 20, 2024 9:53:40 GMT
Losing to both Kent and Notts is unforgiveable. Any coach with any self worth would resign. As the saying going "cricket is a funny game" who would have thought that Surrey would collapse last week against Somerset or Somerset, having bowled Lancs out 140, would end up on the verge of defeat.. |
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Post by MickeyG on Sept 20, 2024 10:02:03 GMT
In hindsight they are unforgiveable with how poor Lancs have been overall and how poor Kent and Notts have been. 2 draws would have made a difference. Yeah, anyone can lose to anyone, but in the context of the season, just as in the premier league you have to get points against those around you in the table.
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Post by MickeyG on Sept 20, 2024 10:03:43 GMT
Game over.
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Post by anyportinastorm on Sept 20, 2024 10:15:15 GMT
Too little too late but fair play for some semblance of fight at least.
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Post by lancsdes on Sept 20, 2024 10:44:22 GMT
“In hindsight they are unforgiveable with how poor Lancs have been overall and how poor Kent and Notts have been. 2 draws would have made a difference. Yeah, anyone can lose to anyone, but in the context of the season, just as in the premier league you have to get points against those around you in the table.” We had the good fortune to play Kent twice and didn’t make use of it . Notts only played Kent once . |
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Post by lancsdes on Sept 20, 2024 10:47:04 GMT
Re the three wins to Warwickshire’s one , bizarrely I’ve seen it quoted in two places that before the latest round of matches , Warwickshire had more of both batting and bowling bonus points than anyone and still do now except for Surrey.
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2024 11:03:58 GMT
 SURREY CHAMPIONS AGAIN |
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Post by Dave Towers on Sept 20, 2024 12:38:09 GMT
What a great result, even if ultimately it doesn’t do anything for us. I was surprised at the speed of it, as Rew in particular has given us problems in recent seasons and we know Gregory and Overton can bat. Somerset had seemed quite confident at the start of their second innings, maybe they were deflated by the Surrey result as our medium fast attack and part time spinner saw them off pretty quickly.
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Post by exile on Sept 20, 2024 12:44:39 GMT
Whatever happens next week, I hope that Lancs will consider making more use of this type of pitch, at least for the outer strips on the square. Apart from being (deliberately?) over-grassed and a bit damp on the first day, it settled into a pitch that provided a fair contest between bat and ball and it was still playing properly on the last day. The contrast between the appearance of the pitch and the used ones on either side of it is very striking. The latter have the usual appearance of dirty brown/grey concrete, while today's strip still looks like a cricket pitch. Good to see Wells back to form with both bat and ball and a much improved effort from Philip. Weather permitting, the game at New Road could be a good one.
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