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  • New £10,000 prize for county cricketers
    A new £10,000 prize awaits county cricket's most valuable player, after an overhaul of the FTI MVP ranking system.

    16/04/2013 (33 days old) | Read more
  • Coup for Lancs as Prince returns as Kolpak
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Ashwell Prince has re-signed for Lancashire as a Kolpak player. The 35-year-old lost his central contract with Cricket South Africa earlier this month

    28/03/2013 (53 days old) | Read more
  • 50 years of one-day cricket
    By Andrew Hignell
    With the domestic first-class season starting today in Abu Dhabi, it’s an appropriate time to remember that 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of limited-overs cricket into the county calendar,

    24/03/2013 (57 days old) | Read more
  • Lancs shocked as Sussex retain T20 title
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have been shocked in the desert. The Red Rose county suffered a Twenty20 defeat to a Fly Emirates XI as part of the four-team competition also involving Sussex and the MCC in Dubai today.

    22/03/2013 (59 days old) | Read more
  • Kabir suffers injury setback
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Kabir Ali’s injury curse has struck again. The former England fast bowler, now with Lancashire, will miss the start of a county season for the second year running after suffering a right knee injury at the recent Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20.

    19/03/2013 (62 days old) | Read more
  • Everton star goes back to his roots
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Everton captain Phil Neville is planning a career in league cricket when he retires from football. 

    15/03/2013 (66 days old) | Read more
  • Statsman: Me and Dad
    By Andrew Hignell
    I wish I could have had a pound for every time somebody has asked me the question – name the father and son who played for Glamorgan during the 1980s. 

    08/03/2013 (73 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Warne's warning over Aussie spin worries

    By Richard Gibson
    The dearth of homegrown spinners in Australia has been highlighted just days after their best of all-time Shane Warne published his vision for their future development.



    07/03/2013 (74 days old) | Read more
  • Moores lands elite coaching role
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire coach Peter Moores has been appointed on to UK Sport’s newly launched Elite Coaching Programme. 

    05/03/2013 (75 days old) | Read more
  • Second spinner incentives run into opposition
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspodent
    Plans to incentivise counties for playing a second specialist spinner have run into strong opposition from county coaches and chief executives.

    05/03/2013 (76 days old) | Read more
  • PCA urge players to seek help on drugs
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketers’ Association is to encourage county players who may be taking recreational drugs to seek help 

    01/03/2013 (80 days old) | Read more
  • It's Emirates Old Trafford thanks to sponsorship deal
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire’s redeveloped home will be known as Emirates Old Trafford for the next 10 years as part of what is believed to be county cricket’s biggest ever sponsorship deal.

    28/02/2013 (81 days old) | Read more
  • County rookies to receive career guidance
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    First year county cricketers will be given advice on safe drinking, anti-doping and anti-corruption 

    25/02/2013 (84 days old) | Read more
  • PCA renew MVP rankings sponsorship
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketers’ Association have renewed their sponsorship agreement with FTI Consulting of their Most Valuable Player Rankings.

    21/02/2013 (88 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Bresnan's sound advice
    By Richard Gibson
    Tim Bresnan got some sound advice from England team-mate Graeme Swann before heading off to the Mayo Clinic in the United States to undergo elbow surgery last week.

    18/02/2013 (91 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket's unbreakable record
    By Andrew Hignell
    It’s a record that can never be broken, and only one bowler has ever come close to equalling it.

    14/02/2013 (95 days old) | Read more
  • Old Trafford to feel benefit of ECB's £1m
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire will use the £1million loan handed out by the ECB to install a second replay screen and electronic scoreboard next to The Point at

    12/02/2013 (97 days old) | Read more
  • PCA initiative links to Maynard Trust
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Tom Maynard Trust is linking up with the Professional Cricketers’ Association to support the players’ union’s Personal Development and

    04/02/2013 (105 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Pune's mad money
    By Richard Gibson
    The maddest of the mad money splashed during the Indian Premier League auction this week was surely the $700,000 Pune Warriors parted with to

    04/02/2013 (105 days old) | Read more
  • White leaves Leics to join Lancs
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    All-rounder Wayne White has joined Lancashire after Leicestershire agreed to release him from his contract at Grace Road.

    25/01/2013 (115 days old) | Read more
  • Richardson called up again by MCC
    By Paul Bolton
    Worcestershire seamer Alan Richardson will provide a link between the final day of last season and the first day of the new one when he plays for the MCC against

    23/01/2013 (117 days old) | Read more
  • Book aids PCA awareness programme
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketers’ Association is sending all 2,300 of its members a best-selling book on depression as part of its on-going

    21/01/2013 (119 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire to follow Essex to Spain
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have followed Essex’s lead by announcing an imminent trip to Spain as they step up their preparations for the new county season.

    18/01/2013 (122 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Inverarity losing it in translation
    By Richard Gibson
    Australian chairman of selectors John Inverarity is always very precise in his language when explaining decisions made by his panel – which provided

    16/01/2013 (124 days old) | Read more
  • PCA offer prize for off-field initiative
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketer’s Association has launched a new award to find the most proactive player, past or present, off the pitch.

    16/01/2013 (124 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Yorkshire chase Tait
    By Richard Gibson
    Cash-strapped Yorkshire want to follow Roses rivals Lancashire's lead and host pop concerts.

    07/01/2013 (133 days old) | Read more
  • PCA chief opposed to Notts' IPL stance
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association hopes that counties will not follow Nottinghamshire’s example by preventing English

    22/12/2012 (149 days old) | Read more
  • Cumbes retires with proud half-century
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Jim Cumbes yesterday retired from his role as Lancashire’s chief executive, thus ending a 50-year career in professional sport, spanning both cricket and football.

    22/12/2012 (149 days old) | Read more
  • International coaching still appeals, says Moores
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire coach Peter Moores has signed a one-year extension to his contract at Old Trafford, but has admitted he

    18/12/2012 (153 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Cook's cow shot debt to 'The Gnome'
    By Richard Gibson
    Alastair Cook’s increasingly positive approach to batting is no surprise to Keith Fletcher, one of his mentors as a schoolboy.

    18/12/2012 (153 days old) | Read more
  • Wallace to succeed Solanki as PCA chairman
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    Glamorgan captain Mark Wallace has been elected the new chairman of the Professional Cricketers’ Association.

    17/12/2012 (154 days old) | Read more
  • Katich reveals motives for Lancs move
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Simon Katich has revealed that the prospect of returning to Lancashire in 2013 persuaded him to put on hold a change of sports.

    05/12/2012 (166 days old) | Read more
  • Croft makes case for England t20 call-up
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire’s batting all-rounder Steven Croft has been backed to break into England’s limited-overs set-up after starting his spell as a Twenty20 overseas

    26/11/2012 (175 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Cook's cut-price captain's log
    By Richard Gibson
    England captain Alastair Cook spent time on the telephone garnering advice from predecessor Andrew Strauss before the current tour of India and carries a Test-specific notebook to

    24/11/2012 (177 days old) | Read more
  • PCA grants reach £1 million mark
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The Professional Cricketers’ Association has passed the £1 million landmark in educational funding grants for past and present players over the last ten years.

    23/11/2012 (178 days old) | Read more
  • Mahmood 'lost his way' at Lancashire: Grayson
    By Paul Hiscock
    Essex head coach Paul Grayson believes Sajid Mahmood "lost his way" at Lancashire in recent seasons and is delighted to have beaten off several other counties for

    21/11/2012 (180 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire return for Katich
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have re-signed Australian batsman Simon Katich as their overseas player as they bid to bounce back to the top tier of the LV= County

    14/11/2012 (187 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Ramps steps up for England
    By Richard Gibson
    Such have been the advances since English cricket’s first academy intake 11 years ago – which included Andrew Strauss, Graeme Swann and Andrew Flintoff – that the 2012-13 Performance

    09/11/2012 (191 days old) | Read more
  • 2012: the worst year for batting?
    By Andrew Hignell
    The 2012 season was played in the wettest summer, from a cricketing point of view, since the introduction of two-divisional County Championship cricket in 2000, while in meteorological terms it was

    06/11/2012 (195 days old) | Read more
  • Kabir Ali joins Lancs on two-year deal
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have made Kabir Ali their first signing of the winter. The former England fast bowler moves to Old Trafford from

    02/11/2012 (199 days old) | Read more
  • Statistics confirm 2012 rain damage
    By Andrew Hignell
    The so-called summer of 2012 was, from a meteorological point of view, the wettest for a hundred years. As far as

    29/10/2012 (203 days old) | Read more
  • Chapple to stay on as Lancashire captain
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Glen Chapple has been reappointed as Lancashire captain ahead of the 2013 season.

    19/10/2012 (213 days old) | Read more
  • ECB propose rethink on county schedule
    The County Championship will involve Sunday starts from 2014 onwards after the ECB board announced a new four-year schedule

    19/10/2012 (213 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Decision time for McGrath
    By Richard Gibson
    One conclusion drawn from Anthony McGrath’s absence from Yorkshire’s Champions League squad is that his future lies away from the club.

    12/10/2012 (220 days old) | Read more
  • Keedy leaves Lancashire to join Surrey
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire's veteran left-arm spinner Gary Keedy has moved south to sign a two-year contract with Surrey, the county who

    12/10/2012 (220 days old) | Read more
  • Scorers oppose ECB analyst plans
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    County scorers are opposing plans by the England and Wales Cricket Board to do without away team scorers and replace them with analysts from

    10/10/2012 (222 days old) | Read more
  • Notts to beat Lancs to Shahzad signing
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire are set to miss out to Nottinghamshire on the signing of Ajmal Shahzad.

    09/10/2012 (223 days old) | Read more
  • Croft's winter plans inspired by Wright
    By Graham Hardcastle
    All-rounder Steven Croft is taking inspiration from Luke Wright's path into the England team having signed up to play Twenty20 cricket in New Zealand this

    05/10/2012 (227 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Cook's dash, Anderson's style
    By Richard Gibson
    Alastair Cook’s unassuming demeanour makes him extremely popular in the England dressing room but his personality rarely projects beyond those four walls.

    02/10/2012 (229 days old) | Read more
  • Finn incidents may prompt MCC law change
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    England paceman Steven Finn’s regular disturbing of the stumps at the non-striker’s end in his delivery stride has prompted the MCC to consider a law change that would make

    02/10/2012 (230 days old) | Read more
  • Engineer pays tribute to Harry Pilling
    By Graham Hardcastle
    The late Harry Pilling has been described as Lancashire’s ‘Mr Reliable’ by former team-mate Farokh Engineer.

    25/09/2012 (236 days old) | Read more
  • Academy quartet win Lancashire contracts
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have handed a quartet of Academy players their first professional contracts.

    21/09/2012 (241 days old) | Read more
  • Lancs choose Gidney as Cumbes successor
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have appointed Daniel Gidney as their new chief executive to replace the retiring Jim Cumbes from the end of the year.

    20/09/2012 (242 days old) | Read more
  • CB40 groups for 2013 announced
    By Paul Bolton
    Warwickshire will face Midlands rivals Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire in next season’s Clydesdale Bank 40 group stage

    19/09/2012 (243 days old) | Read more
  • Saj Mahmood released by Lancashire
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have released Sajid Mahmood after eleven years with the county.

    19/09/2012 (243 days old) | Read more
  • Pietersen left out of England squad
    England have left out Kevin Pietersen from their Test squad for the tour of India. Two uncapped batsmen, Somerset's Nick Compton and Yorkshire's Joe Root, have been called up. 

    18/09/2012 (244 days old) | Read more
  • PCA launch initiative to combat depression
    By Robin Hutchison
    While county cricket spectators may have felt down in the dumps about the wettest summer for a century, the very real subject of depression among the players they watch is altogether more serious.

    17/09/2012 (244 days old) | Read more
  • County groundsmen win national award
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    The hard work of county groundsmen across the country during one of the wettest summers on record has been officially recognised with a prestigious national award.

    17/09/2012 (244 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Steyn's sympathy, KP tweet fall-out
    By Richard Gibson
    Ravi Bopara received sympathy for his current plight from an unusual source in his final international appearance before heading to the ICC World Twenty20.

    16/09/2012 (245 days old) | Read more
  • Wettest summer for 100 years: the details
    By Andrew Hignell
    It's official: 2012 has been the wettest summer for exactly a hundred years

    15/09/2012 (247 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Lancashire v Surrey
    And that is that. Match drawn. Lancashire, replying to a first innings 367, declare their first innings on 142-2 from 42 overs with Horton 10 and Brown one. Surrey take seven points and Lancashire five.  

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Smith gone for 83 as he edges Jewell to Batty at first slip. 140-2 in the 38th. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • TEA - Lancashire v Surrey
    Lancashire go in at 118-1 after 29 overs of their first innings. Smith is 67 not out. There are 19 overs of the season to go here. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Procter has been Dunn like a kipper. He has played on to Matt Dunn for 36 after sharing 110 with Smith for the first wicket inside 29 overs. That is Lancashire's highest opening stand of the season. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Lancashire v Surrey
    Smith 50 off 78 balls with six fours. Lancashire are 89-0 in the 25th. That's his third half-century in four Championship innings. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    Play is about to resume at Liverpool. A further four overs have been lost. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    More rain has arrived at Liverpool, where Lancashire have reached 50-0 after 18 overs of their first innings. Smith is 28 not out and Procter 15. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    A very sedate start to Lancashire's innings, as you would expect. They have reached 29-0 in the 13th. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Surrey
    That will be an early lunch due to rain. Lancashire are 3-0 after 1.2 overs. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Procter bowls Jon Lewis to wrap up the innings at 367 and finish with a superb 7-71. Those are his county's best figures of the season. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    And another lbw for Procter gives him the first six-wicket haul of his career. Linley trapped lbw one. Surrey 366-9. Lancashire just miss out on what is an inconsequential third bowling bonus point by two balls. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Jewell gone for 70 to the second ball after the restart. Steven Croft takes the catch at first slip to hand Procter his fifth wicket. He has two in his career, and both have come this season. 364-8. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    Play will resume at 11.50am with 12 overs lost in the day. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    Rain has stopped play here with Surrey on 362-7. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    And another lbw scalp for Procter, this time it's Gareth Batty who's on his way. That's a second wicket in three balls for the second time in the match for the Lancashire seamer. 355-7. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    A third wicket for Luke Procter, who has trapped de Bruyn for 125 off 250 balls to leave Surrey at 355-6 in the 107th. That breaks a sixth-wicket stand of 177 with Jewell, who is 68 not out. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Essex v Yorkshire
    Nightwatchman Tom Craddock chips Steve Patterson straight to Phil Jaques at backward point. He scored 5 and Essex are 34 for 3.

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    Surrey will be batting on. They resume on 324-5 with Zander de Bruyn on 105 and Tom Jewell on 57. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    It wouldn't be the last day of the season without weather interruptions. The sun is out, but the wind is up. The sightscreen at the River End has blown over. Play should still start on time, however. 

    14/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Surrey
    Definitely Surrey's day thanks to three men with scores above 50 and four partnerships above 50. De Bruyn finished on 105 not out and Jewell unbeaten on 57. They have added an unbroken 146 for the sixth wicket as Surrey closed on 324-5 from 99 overs. 

    13/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Lancashire v Surrey
    An excellent first hundred of the season for de Bruyn off 221 balls with six fours and two sixes has helped Surrey take the honours on day one. Now Jewell reaches 50 off 115 balls with four fours. Surrey are 313-5 after 96 overs. 12 mins left to play. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Lancashire v Surrey
    100 partnership up between de Bruyn and Jewell, who have reached 94 and 36 respectively. De Bruyn has scored 94 against Lancashire already this season at Guildford, but is poised for his first ton of the campaign. 292-5 after 92. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    We haven't half rattled through these overs with three spinners used. With an hour and 10 minutes of play left today, we only have 13 overs remaining in the day's allocation. Excellent recovery from a mini collapse to 178-5 as Surrey reach 243-5 in the 84th.

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Lancashire v Surrey
    50 for de Bruyn off 152 balls with two fours and two sixes. Both his sixes were hit straight off Kerrigan. The second of those was a couple of overs ago. 216-5 in the 76th. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • TEA - Lancashire v Surrey
    Surrey go in at 190-5 from 65 overs with de Bruyn on 37 and Jewell on eight. After Surrey's morning, it has been Lancashire's afternoon. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Two wickets in three balls for Procter, who now has Steven Davies caught behind by Alex Davies for a duck. 179-5 in the 57th. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Procter strikes. Roy is bowled for 13, and Surrey are 179-4 in the 57th. Lancashire's attack, lacking the experienced names of Chapple and Shahzad, have stuck to their task pretty well here under gloomy skies.


    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Burns gone for a well made 73, and Surrey are 160-3 on the 51st over. Smith takes the wicket as Davies completes a maiden catch behind the stumps. That brings a partnership of 59 in 24 overs with de Bruyn to a close.


    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    Scarf, bobble hat and gloves time in the press tent. Meanwhile, out in the middle, Surrey have moved on to 144-2 after 40 overs. Burns is on 63 and de Bruyn, who has lofted Kerrigan for a straight six since lunch, is on 22. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Surrey
    Surrey reach lunch on 109-2 from 30 overs. Burns 54 and de Bruyn two.  

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Harinath edges Newby to Horton at first slip for 17, 103-2 in the 27th. This has definitely been Surrey's session after being inserted. So often do you see a side lose a cluster of wickets in the early stages of a match here. Burns 50 off 79 balls. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    After leaking 50 runs inside the first 10 overs, Lancashire have put the brakes on since. Surrey are now 64-1 after 18 overs. Bailey's opening spell finished at 7-2-19-1. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Surrey
    Bailey takes his maiden first-class wicket by bowling Ansari for 23, off-stump knocked back. Surrey are 50-1 in the 10th over. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    Surrey have made a fast start here courtesy of Zafar Ansari and Rory Burns, who have moved on to 45-0 in the seventh over. Ansari is onto 21 and Oliver Newby's figures aren't good. He has gone at 3.4-0-27-0.   

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    Just a couple of names you may not be familiar with in the Lancashire team. Alex Davies is an England under 19s wicketkeeper and Tom Bailey a fast bowler on the club's scholarship programme. Both are making their first-class debuts. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Lancashire v Surrey
    LANCS: Smith, Horton, Procter, Brown, Croft (c), Agathangelou, Davies (w), Newby, Bailey, Kerrigan, Keedy. SURREY: Burns, Ansari, Harinath, de Bruyn, Roy, Davies (w), Jewell, Batty (c), Lewis, Linley, Dunn.

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire won the toss - Lancashire v Surrey
    Steven Croft wins the toss and elects to bowl first. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • New Lancashire contract for Anderson
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Jimmy Anderson has signed a new contract with Lancashire. The England bowler has penned a two-year deal at Old Trafford until the end of the 2014 season,

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    We have some good news from a sunny Liverpool. Play will start on time at 10.30am after two days of rain. 

    13/09/2012 (249 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Surrey
    Play has been abandoned for the day at Liverpool.



    12/09/2012 (250 days old) | Read more
  • Boyce planning John O'Groats-Land's End walk
    By Mark Baldwin
    Leicestershire batsman Matt Boyce is planning to walk from John O’Groats to Land’s End this autumn in aid of depression in sport.

    12/09/2012 (250 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    We can forget the chances of a start at 12.40pm because it's bucketing it down again. Players were out warming up, but have since scarpered back to the pavilion.

    12/09/2012 (250 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Surrey
    Lunch will be taken early at noon with a view to starting at 12.40pm. 

    12/09/2012 (250 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    There will be an inspection at 10.15am at Liverpool, where the chances of a start on time have gone. 

    12/09/2012 (250 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    Play has been abandoned for the day at Liverpool. 

    11/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    There has been an 11am inspection here, and the conclusion is that the chances of play today are virtually non-existent. Apparently the rain has seeped under the covers, and there is more to come too. 

    11/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Surrey
    The rain is falling at Liverpool, and there is no chance of a start on time. 

    11/09/2012 (251 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Kieswetter's rise, Davies's fall
    By Richard Gibson
    Craig Kieswetter is set to oust rival Steven Davies for the back-up wicketkeeper position on England’s Test tour to India this winter.

    09/09/2012 (253 days old) | Read more
  • Chapple still up for the fight despite relegation
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Glen Chapple has expressed his determination to be part of Lancashire’s bid to regain their Division One status in the LV= County Championship next season after relegation was

    08/09/2012 (254 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Middlesex v Lancashire
    The 2011 County Champions Lancashire are all out for 194 and relegated as Middlesex have won by 109 runs. Simon Kerrigan was the last to go as he was caught by Gareth Berg at second slip for a duck off the bowling of Ravi Patel.

    07/09/2012 (255 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    178-9. Luke Procter has been trapped LBW by Ravi Patel for 26. Middlesex are nearly through and Lancashire's relegation is nearly confirmed.

    07/09/2012 (255 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Five wickets for Crook, who has bowled Chapple. 146-8. 

    07/09/2012 (255 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Incredible spell from Steven Crook, who has just taken four wickets in 11 balls to end Lancashire's chances of victory and staying up. They have fallen from 107-2 to 125-6 in double quick time as Crook gets rid of Brown, Croft, Cross and now Horton. 

    07/09/2012 (255 days old) | Read more
  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire need 197 off 23 overs to win. They are 107-2 after 16 overs. Steven Croft and Karl Brown have added a 50 partnership in only five overs. Brown gone though as I type, bowled by Crook. 107-3. 

    07/09/2012 (255 days old) | Read more
  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire, who lost Ashwell Prince a few overs ago, have reached 50-1 after nine overs in their pursuit of 304. They need another 254 in 30. Make that 50-2. Smith stumped off Ravi Patel's first ball. 

    07/09/2012 (255 days old) | Read more
  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire, opening with Tom Smith and Ashwell Prince, are 18-0 after four overs. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire will need 304 runs to stay in Division One of the County Championship from 39 overs. Middlesex declare on 305-9. Chapple has taken 5-47. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Chapple struck twice in two balls a few moments ago, trapping Berg lbw and bowling Patel to clinch his second five-for of the match. 289-9 now. 287 lead with 39 left. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire have struck twice in successive overs with the new ball, which they delayed taking by two overs. Malan was caught behind off Chapple and Simpson bowled by Shahzad. Just a glimmer for Lancashire. 265-6

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire, desperately searching for wickets to keep themselves up, have delayed taking the second new ball. Middlesex are 248-4, 246 in front, with 52 overs left in the day. 

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  • LUNCH - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex reach 224-4, leading by 222. Malan is 73 not out and Jon Simpson unbeaten on 10. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Tom Smith has just forced Neil Dexter to edge to Steven Croft at second slip for nine, Middlesex 207-4. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire have their first wicket of day four, and it's Rogers for 86. He's been caught behind trying to cut Simon Kerrigan's left-arm spin. Middlesex are 178-3. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    A fifty off 96 balls for Dawid Malan. He and Rogers have now added 129 inside 32 for the third wicket. 173-2. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Aside from a vociferous appeal for lbw from Hogg against Rogers with the first ball of the day, the first half hour has passed by without incident. The 100 partnership between Rogers and Malan has been recorded, and Middlesex are 152-2. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    The day has started with a huge lbw shout from Kyle Hogg against Chris Rogers with the very first ball. Middlesex now 130-2 in their second innings and leading by 128. If Surrey win at the Oval, Lancashire have to win here or they're down. 

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  • Lancashire release Naqaash Tahir
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have released fast bowler Naqaash Tahir after only one season on the staff at Old Trafford.

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  • Close Of Play - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex have closed on 129-2, leading by 127 runs. Their position in the match is strengthened by the fact that Lancashire may be in desperate need of a win on the final day and could agree to a steep run chase with the hosts holding all the cards.

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Chris Rogers and Dawid Malan have added 48 for the third wicket for Middlesex to frustrate the visitors and move the score to 92-2. Rogers is on 47 and Malan on 15. 11.4 more overs to be bowled tonight. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    A second wicket for Lancashire courtesy of Ajmal Shahzad, who has bowled Joe Denly off an inside edge. Middlesex are now 45-2, leading by 43. 19.1 overs left tonight. Chris Rogers is not out 20. 

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  • WICKET - Hampshire v Essex
    James Foster has gone for 61, caught behind against David Balcombe. Essex 452-7, 403 ahead.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Chapple strikes to get rid of Sam Robson, lbw for three. Middlesex are 5-1 in the third. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Brown bowled by Berg for 78 to close the Lancashire innings at 448, a lead of two. That should also be tea with 37 overs still to be bowled today. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Chapple has been stumped for 29 off Patel's bowling, leaving Lancashire at 426-8 and 20 behind. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire are still going pretty well here, despite the recent departure of Kyle Hogg to Ravi Patel. Brown has reached his half-century, he's 54 now, and Chapple is there with him. We have a little less than 53 overs to be bowled today. 389-7. 

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  • Warwickshire win the Championship
    Warwickshire have won the County Championship for the first time since 2004 with an emphatic innings-and-202-run win over rivals Worcestershire, who have been relegated. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire achieve that target with two balls to spare. Now they go in search of an unlikely win. 355-6. They are 87 behind with best part of five sessions left in the match. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    We have a run chase of sorts as Lancashire chase a fourth batting point. Cross whacked the first ball of the 110th over for six to take the score to 347-5 and then was caught behind off Berg with the second. He's gone for an excellent 59 off 35 balls. 

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  • LUNCH - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire go into lunch at 327-5 from 105 overs and trail by 119. They ended the session like a house on fire thanks to Gareth Cross, who has reached 42 not out off only 22 balls in a stand of 57 in 8.2 overs for the sixth wicket with Karl Brown (31). 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Gareth Cross has come in and got his side moving with an unbeaten 24 off 15 balls. He has helped take Lancashire beyond 300 in the 101st. He and Brown have added 34 for the sixth wicket in just 4.2 overs.  

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Another wicket for Roland-Jones as Croft is bowled with a shooter to leave the visitors at 270-5 after 97 overs. There has been a bit of variable bounce in last 20 minutes, highlighted by that ball. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire lose their first wicket of the morning, and it's Prince for 71 as he edges Toby Roland-Jones to Dawid Malan at first slip. 266-4 in the 93rd. 

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  • THREE WICKETS - Yorkshire v Glamorgan
    Three breakthroughs for Yorks in the first 55 minutes here. Ashraf has removed Bragg and Walters, and Patterson has just had Lloyd taken by Hodd for a duck. Lloyd, poor lad,  has now made a pair on first-class debut. Glamorgan 46-5, and crumbling. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    A solid enough start for Lancashire, who have moved to 255-3 in the 86th over. Middlesex delayed taking the second new ball by an over, but there has been no movement with it so far from Gareth Berg or Toby Roland-Jones. Prince on 65, Brown 12. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    The players are on their way out for what could be a pivotal day in Lancashire's fight against relegation. They simply have to bat extremely well to get from 236-3 up towards, and ideally beyond, Middlesex's 446. Ashwell Prince and Karl Brown are not out

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  • Close Of Play - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire close on 236-3. It was another hard day in the field as the batsman made the most the best weather of the season at Lord's. The new ball is available in three overs and Middlesex will target a big impact in the early morning conditions.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    225-3. Paul Horton dabbles at a short delivery from Steven Crook wide outside the off stump and is caught by wicketkeeper John Simpson for 64. It was a soft dismissal late in the day. 6 overs to bowl.

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Paul Horton posts an 87-ball half century to take Lancashire within five runs of a batting point at 195-2. He and Ashwell Prince have put on 100 for the third wicket. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    A very quiet opening half hour or so of the evening session has seen the visitors advance their first innings to 133-2 in the 53rd over. 

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  • TEA - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire move to 116-2 after 45 overs in reply to 446. The visitors have definitely enjoyed the more profitable day even though they are behind in the match. Ashwell Prince is 13 and Paul Horton six. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Both Lancashire openers have gone. Smith stumped off Ravi Patel for 55, 95-2 in the 38th. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Luke Procter goes for 30 to a catch at second slip by Sam Robson off Steven Crook, the ball ballooning off the glove. Five more and it would have been the Red Rose county's first 100-stand of the season in Championship cricket. Smith still there on 55. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Second fifty in two Championship matches for Tom Smith off 86 balls with eight fours. This is impressive stuff from Lancashire, who have struggled with the bat all season. The fact that this, at 82-0, is their best opening stand of the summer in this form.

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Dizzy heights for Lancashire, who have only had one previous opening stand above 50 this season. Now Tom Smith and Luke Procter have added 52 for the first wicket inside 20 overs. 

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  • LUNCH - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire reach the break at 18-0 after 10 overs in reply to 446. The visitors could not afford to lose a wicket in that last half hour, and they haven't. Tom Smith is nine not out, Luke Procter three. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Lancashire have veered from the tried and trusted at the top of the order in terms of Paul Horton, who has been shifted downwards. They are opening with Tom Smith and Luke Procter. I can't believe it's a form issue with Horton, who has two tons this year.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex all out for 446 as Ravi Patel is bowled by Chapple, who completes his first five-for in Championship cricket this season. He finishes with 5-86. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Chapple takes his fourth wicket to secure his side's third bowling point with nine balls to spare of the 110 over cut off time for bonus points. He rocks back Toby Roland-Jones's middle stump to leave the score at 427-9. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Steven Crook gone for an excellent 66 as he edges Ajmal Shahzad to Paul Horton at first slip in the 104th over. Middlesex are now 418-8 after 104. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    50 for Crook against his former county off 64 balls with six fours and a six. Middlesex 405-7 in the 102nd.  

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Good start for Lancashire, who strikes courtesy of their skipper Glen Chapple. Neil Dexter has edged behind to Gareth Cross for 125, and the score is 391-7 in the 99th. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Day two will start under sunny blue skies with Middlesex looking to ram home their advantage from 389-6. This is a key day in Lancashire's battle against relegation. 

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  • Close Of Play - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex will be delighted to close on 389-6 after a tricky start to the day at Lord's. Having been put in and reduced to 39-3, the early September starts appeared to hand the advantage to the visitors but Neil Dexter replied with an unbeaten 123.

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  • Close Of Play - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex have dominated this day. They finished on 389-6 from 96 overs with Neil Dexter on 123 not out and Steven Crook unbeaten on 41. They have shared 77 in 17 for the seventh wicket. Great recovery from 4-2 this morning. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex have really taken this game by the scruff of the neck during the last two sessions. Dexter (111) and Steven Crook (35), formerly of Lancashire, have now added 53 for the seventh wicket. 365-6 with four overs to go. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Dexter reaches his second hundred of the season off 193 balls with 14 fours, but he has lost his sixth-wicket partner Berg, who was caught behind off Kyle Hogg as he attempted a pull. They shared a record 148 in matches between these two sides. 316-6. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    The sixth wicket partnership between Dexter and Berg, who are now only 12 runs apart on 84 and 72 respectively, currently amounts to 124 inside 33 overs. This has been some recovery, and Lancashire's heads have dropped. As I type, the scores moves to 290-5.

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    50 off 81 balls for Gareth Berg. 248-5 after 65. 

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  • TEA - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex have enjoyed an excellent afternoon, led by former skipper Neil Dexter's unbeaten 66. He and Gareth Berg (45) have added 75 in 21 overs for the sixth wicket. From 4-2 this morning, this has been an impressive recovery.  

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    This has been quite a strange day's cricket. Lancashire looked so dominant early on, but now they don't look like getting a wicket. Dexter moves past 50 off 109 balls with 9x4s. Middlesex 209-5 in the 54th. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Was just about to type 'Lancashire need a wicket'. It's come by way of a strangle, second of day. Simpson on his way off Kyle Hogg's bowling for 29, bringing to an end a 62-run stand between him and Dexter. Conditions currently seem a lot easier for batting.

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex have enjoyed a profitable half hour after lunch by taking the scoring to 137-4 and repelling Glen Chapple and Simon Kerrigan with reasonable comfort. Dexter is on 33 and Simpson on 17 against the county of his birth.

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  • LUNCH - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex are 108-4 after 29 overs with Dexter on 21 and Jon Simpson on 1.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Robson falls one short of 50. Simon Kerrigan has struck in his first over to get the opener lbw and break a stand of 63 with Neil Dexter. We are on the verge of lunch. Middlesex 103-4 now. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    As we approach lunch, Middlesex have made an impressive recovery thanks in the main to Sam Robson, who is 49 not out. Having been 4-2 and 39-3, they are now 102-3 after 27 overs. Robson and Neil Dexter have added 63 in 15 and a half overs. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    A third wicket for the Red Rose county, a first for Ajmal Shahzad. Dawid Malan leaves alone and sees his off stump cartwheel. Middlesex are 39-3 and under the cosh. There's movement on offer both through the air and off the pitch. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Flying start for Lancashire, who have struck twice inside the first three overs. Both wickets gone to Chapple. The latest was Joe Denly caught behind down the legside. Middlesex are 4-2. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Ideal start for Lancashire, who strike early. Glen Chapple traps Chris Rogers lbw with the fifth ball of the match as the Australian plays to leg, 0-1. 

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  • Team News - Middlesex v Lancashire
    MIDDX: Rogers, Robson, Denly, Malan, Dexter, Simpson, Berg, Patel, Roland-Jones, Crook, Collymore. LANCS: Horton, Procter, Brown, Prince, Croft, Smith, Cross, Hogg, Chapple, Shahzad, Kerrigan. 

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Glen Chapple has won the toss and will have a bowl first. 

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  • White Rose bedraggled but still blooming
    By Andrew Hignell
    The summer of 2012 is finally over – well, at least it is from a meteorological point of view, with September 1 marking the start of autumn. For the weather-beaten cricketers of

    03/09/2012 (259 days old) | Read more
  • Horton: 'Our fault if we go down'
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Paul Horton says Lancashire can have no complaints if they get relegated this season.

    02/09/2012 (259 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire set up a September 15 final against Hampshire with a 23-run win over Lancashire, who are bowled out for 227 in 39.4 overs. Neil Carter finished with 4-38. It will be the Bears' second Lord's final appearance in three years. 

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  • Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Lancashire, at 207-8 after 37, needed 44 to win. Paul Horton has batted superbly for 73 not out off 58 balls.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    A 47-ball fifty for Paul Horton. Lancashire 177-7 after 33.3. 74 needed. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Lancashire on the brink. After losing Gareth Cross lbw to Blackwell, Shahzad has gone to Paul Best or 10. They are 147-7 after 30.2 overs, needing another 104 to win. I think Warwickshire fans can start booking their hotels in London for September 15. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    It's a long way back from here. Warwickshire all but home and hosed as Ashwell Prince has a rush of blood and top-edges Ian Blackwell to mid-off, where Jim Troughton takes a fine catch. Lancashire 90-5 in the 21st. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire heading to Lord's? You would imagine so. Karl Brown uppercuts Wright to Darren Maddy at deep point. Lancashire are 77-4 in the 18th. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    What a giveaway. Steven Croft hits two fours in a row off Chris Wright before trying to heave a third and playing on. Lancashire 50-3 in the 11th. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Another wicket for Carter, and it's a big one. Stephen Moore is caught behind for 17. Lancashire 29-2 in the 7th. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Tom Smith has gone to Neil Carter. He's been caught at mid-on by a tumbling Jim Troughton for six, 18-1 in the fifth. 

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  • Interval - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire close on 250-6. This is set for a cracking game on a good pitch. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Chopra holes out for 110 to Steven Croft at long-on to hand Ajmal Shahzad his second wicket in two balls after Chris Woakes was caught behind. 240-6 after 39 overs. Lancashire will be pretty pleased with this. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Not the most fluent century Chopra will score, but he's there off 119 balls. 225-4 in the 38th. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Stephen Moore takes his third catch to get rid of Rikki Clarke for 17 off nine balls running around from point, Tom Smith takes the wicket. 217-4 in the 37th. Chopra 95 not out.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Correction on the wicket-taker, it's Shahzad not Chapple. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Maddy goes, the third man to go caught in the deep. He top-edges a pull off Glen Chapple to Karl Brown running around towards fine-leg from deep square. 186-3 in the 33rd. 

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  • Lancashire v Warwickshire
    With nine overs to go, Warwickshire are 177-2 and looking set for their highest score of this season's campaign. They have to beat 242. Chopra is 79 not out and Darren Maddy 13

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Identical dismissal to the Porterfield one does for Jim Troughton - Keedy the bowler, Moore the catcher at deep mid-wicket. 150-2 in the 27th. Chopra still there on 65 off 84. In comes Darren Maddy. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Lancashire get the wicket they need as Porterfield clips Gary Keedy to Stephen Moore running in from deep mid-wicket for 67. Warwickshire 126-1 in the 23rd. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Now Chopra reaches his half-century off 66 balls with six boundaries as the visitors move to 125-0 in the 22nd. Chopra is now 53 and Porterfield 67. 

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  • Lancashire v Warwickshire
    It seems as if Lancashire have actually agreed to a change of team for Warwickshire. Ambrose suffered a thigh injury after the tpss and Richard Johnson is on his way up from Birmingham. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    50 for Porterfield off 46 balls with six fours and a six. 91-0 after 16 overs represents a very good start for the visitors. 

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  • Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Lancashire have just tweeted from their official Twitter account that Warwickshire's Tim Ambrose will not be keeping wicket today and that the hosts have accepted a request for a sub fielder. Not sure of the full details as yet. 79-0 in the 14th. 

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  • Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Despite a couple of expensive overs, four and five, Lancashire's bowlers have kept things tight through the first powerplay. Varun Chopra and Will Porterfield have taken the score to 33-0 after eight overs. Both sides will be reasonably happy. 

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  • Team News - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    LANCS: Moore, Prince, Croft, Brown, Horton, Smith, Cross, Shahzad, Parry, Chapple, Keedy. WARKS: Porterfield, Chopra, Troughton, Ambrose, Maddy, Clarke, Woakes, Blackwell, Carter, Best, Wright.

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  • Warwickshire won the toss - Lancashire v Warwickshire
    Jim Troughton has won the toss and has elected to have a bat first. 

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  • Result - Lancashire v Durham
    Well, we never got back on after tea here. Lancs took seven pts from the draw and are still very much in the soup; Durham took ten points and all their troubles seem so far away. Lancs 262 Durham 416. Nearly two days lost to rain.   

    31/08/2012 (262 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET and TEA- Lancashire v Durham
    Rushworth c Prince b Croft 7 and Durham are all out for 416, a lead of 154. Lancs have 32 overs to bat out. Croft finished with 3-33 off 8.2 overs.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Thorp bowled for 25 aiming a mighty heave at Croft and Durham are 408-9, a lead of 146

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    Oh yeah, the score is 333 for six in the 104th over, Collingwood 91, Borthwick 47.   

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    Durham grind towards 350 and Lancashire's fielding is ragged. Borthwick was dropped by Hogg (a tough chance, running back from m-wkt) on 41 and Collingwood was spilled on 75 by Prince at mid on (a complete lollipop) both off Kerrigan.   

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Durham
    Durham 291-6 at lunch, Collingwood 63, Borthwick 34. Kerrigan's taken four for 75. Barring Scarboroughesque contortions this game will be drawn.   

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  • Carter aiming for a Lord's finale
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    Warwickshire seamer Neil Carter is aiming for another Lord’s final to end his county career on a high.

    31/08/2012 (262 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Lancashire v Durham
    Despite surviving one or two alarms - Collingwood dropped by Chapple at mid on off Kerrigan when 45 - Durham have progressed to 284 for 6 and a first innings lead. Collingwood is 60 and Borthwick 30; the standard of cricket is remarkably high  

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    Consolidation has been provided for Durham in the predictable shape of Paul Collingwood, who is 45 not out. Kerrigan and Croft are operating in tandem at the moment. Lancashire are in search of a third bowling bonus point. Durham 254-6.   

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  • WICKETS - Lancashire v Durham
    Two early wickets here for Kerrigan, who is bowling beautifully from the River End. Richardson was well taken at 2nd slip by Smith for 41 and Mustard was caught round the corner by Prince for five. Durham are 207-6.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Ben Stokes caught at short midwicket by Prince off Keedy for four. Rather a rush of blood, it alters the balance of the match. Durham 146 for 3. Wickets in successive overs for Keedy.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Keaton Jennings has just been caught at short leg by Croft off Keedy after making one of the most composed innings of 70 you are likely to see. Durham 142-2 Jennings has to wait four years before he qualifies to play for England.

    30/08/2012 (263 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Stoneman c Croft (short leg) b Kerrigan 44 to give Lancs their first breakthrough at 90. However, Keaton Jennings is batting impressively on 46 not out and Durham are now 102 for one

    30/08/2012 (263 days old) | Read more
  • TEA - Lancashire v Durham
    Durham are 70 for no wicket off 19 overs at tea, Stoneman 36, Jennings 30. The openers have proceeded serenely along in sunshine quite at variance with the weather we had yesterday.  

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Durham
    50 up for Durham and the visitors are looking very comfortable at Liverpool. Stoneman is 29no and Jennings 20no. The seamers have not made much of an impression so far and the openers look pretty secure.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Chapple bowled (attempting a pull) Onions 8 to give the Durham seamer his fifth five wicket haul in 11 matches. His figures are now 25-12-36-5. He has conceded five boundaries.

    30/08/2012 (263 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Lancashire v Durham
    Kyle Hogg has reached 50 for the second time this Championship season. Lancashire are now 250-7 and have thus collected their second batting point. We have another 68 overs ahead of us today.

    30/08/2012 (263 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Smith having taken four singles off 48 balls from Graham Onions has now been caught behind by Mustard off the seamer for 91. Lancs 240-7

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    Back on at Liverpool and Onions has taken the new ball after 80.2 overs

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    Spoke too soon I guess. Another heavier shower has indeed driven the players from the field. Lancs 233 for six this benighted excuse for a summer.    

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    We are under way at Liverpool despite a brief shower which threatened to take the players off the field. Hogg and Smith have brought up their hundred partnership for the seventh wicket. Lancs 233-6

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    It seems gloom is the plat du jour at Liverpool. We are to have lunch at 12.20 and will make a start at 1.00pm if there is no more rain and we don't have a plague of frogs etc. etc..... 

    30/08/2012 (263 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    A little ray of sunshine has just pointed out that Worcestershire have three batting points, so Lancashire are now bottom of the table. As Bertie Wooster might have put it, Red Rose fans have difficulty detecting the bluebird.  

    30/08/2012 (263 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    We are to have a late start here but there seems every chance of play before long. The umpires are to make another inspection at 11.30. The weather at the moment is beguilingly pleasant.  

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  • CB40 group finale sums up rain-hit summer
    By Andrew Hignell
    A microcosm of the summer of 2012 in all its watery entirety was seen in the the last round of Clydesdale Bank 40 group games on Monday August 27.

    29/08/2012 (264 days old) | Read more
  • England plan county Ashes warm-up
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    England are lining up a match against county opposition next season as a warm-up to the Ashes series.

    29/08/2012 (264 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Durham
    Play has now been abandoned here which was no surprise to anyone. A heavy shower has greeted the announcement.  

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    We've had the cloudburst but the expected abandonment hasn't followed yet. Instead there have been inspections and a few onfield conflabs between umpires and captains. It can't be long before the plug is pulled - not that the water will drain away.

    29/08/2012 (264 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    Good news: we've had no rain here since early this morning. Bad news: it's about to hose it down and thunder is rumbling around Aigburth. All the covers are on and we're battening down the hatches. 

    29/08/2012 (264 days old) | Read more
  • Counties set to reject Champions League
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    Counties are unlikely to take part in next year’s Champions League Twenty20 competition because it is likely to clash with the climax to the domestic season.

    29/08/2012 (264 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    Good morning from Liverpool where heavy overnight rain has already wiped out any chance of play before lunch. The word on the square is that it could be 3.30 before we get under way. Apart from that, everything's tickety-boo.

    29/08/2012 (264 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    Steady progress for Lancashire who are 203-6 after 64 overs. Smith is 76 not out and Hogg is batting fluently on 26 not out. It suddenly seems a long time since Lancs were 11-4 and this game is interestingly poised. Rain is forecast though.   

    28/08/2012 (264 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Cross bowled Stokes 57 to end his 72-run stand with Smith, who contributed 15 to the partnership. A full-length ball brought about the demise of Cross, who shaped to work it to leg and played over the top of it. Lancs now 140-6. 

    28/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • Landmarks - Lancashire v Durham
    A 50-stand between Cross and Smith, of which Smith has made precisely six. Cross's 49 is his highest score in twelve innings since mid-May. Smith (24no) hasn't scored a run for 37 balls; And Cross has just reached his fifty off 63 balls.  Lancs 114-5.

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  • TEA - Lancashire v Durham
    Lancs are 94-5 after 34 overs at tea, which represents a major recovery from 11-4. Smith is 24 not out and Gareth Cross, batting as well as he has done for some time, is 30no off 28 balls. Still Durham's session of course, Onions 8-4-15-3. 40 overs to go 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Just when Lancs were recovering a speck of respectability Prince goes for 31, top-edging a pull off Stokes to Stoneman at deep square leg. Lancashire 58-5. Smith is 18 not out. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Durham
    Lancashire have roared past their lowest ever total at Aigburth (28 v the Australians in 1896). At present Glen Chapple's side are 33-4 although third-slip Stokes dropped Prince on 14. Onions 8-4-15-3. For how many Test teams would he not play?  

    28/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    The wickets pursue the runs here. Lancs 11-4. Croft (bowled Onions 0) was the latest to go, the ball kept very low and uprooted the off pole with chilling finality. The locals are getting restless.   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Procter was the next to go, caught by Borthwick at second slip when attempting to drive Graham Onions. Lancs are 9-3 in the seventh over

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Lancs 7-2 and you'd get good odds against them still batting at the close. Karl Brown ct Borthwick (2nd slip) off Rushworth for nought.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Durham
    Horton bowled Onions for three and Lancs are four for one wicket. Two balls after an lbw shout the opener let one go and it clipped his off stump.

    28/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire won the toss and will bat...
    Lancashire win toss and bat, only the second Championship toss Chapple has won this season

    28/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Lancashire v Durham
    Teams: Lancashire: Chapple,(capt.) Horton, Procter, Brown, Prince, Croft, Smith, Cross (wkt.), Hogg, Keedy, Kerrigan. Durham: Collingwood,( capt.)  Stoneman, Richardson, Jennings, Stokes, Benkenstein, Mustard, (wkt.) Borthwick, Thorp, Onions, Rushworth.

    28/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    Let joy be unconfinéd. We are to start at 1.30pm (today, in case you were wondering.) 

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  • Lancashire v Durham
    Two umpires (Bodenham and Cowley) are currently holding a conflab with three members of the groundstaff. We should have an announcement re a start-time soon. Crowd very patient so far. They haven't pelted the officials with stale Eccles Cakes.

    28/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    There will be a 12.30 inspection at Liverpool. The outfield is wet apparently, not surprising really given that it rained most of yesterday and the local cricket programme was almost completely wiped out. The run-ups are the problem.  

    28/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • Clydesdale Bank 40 semi-final draw
    Sussex v Hampshire, and Lancashire v Warwickshire. Ties to be played on September 1.

    27/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    And the result is No Result at New Road. Umpires Peter Willey and Neil Bainton decided that there would be no further play after they inspected at 5.50 and with more rain forecast. One point each which is hard on Lancashire and a point more than Worcestershire deserved after a shabby performance in the field

    27/08/2012 (265 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    There will be a delayed re-start here because the rain has got heavier

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Paul Horton stumped by Ben Cox off the last ball of the innings. Lancashire 324-4 but it's raining again

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Croft caught at long on by Phil Hughes off D'Oliveira for 67. Lancs 309-3 and their highest-ever 40 overs total

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Stephen Moore has finally gone for 113, holed out to deep midwicket off the toiling Harrison. Lancashire 292-2

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Stephen Moore 100 against his former county from 96 balls with nine fours and two sixes

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Stevebn Croft 50 from 41 balls with two fours and three sixes

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Back on and playing at New Road. Now a 37 overs a side match with a 17 minutes tea interval. No time for chocolate cake in the Ladies Pavilion today

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Rain has stopped play at New Road with Lancashire 212-1 after 25 overs. Stephen Moore 84, Steven Croft 16

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Meanwhile Stephen Moore has quietly stroked bhis way to his seventh half century in 12 CB40 innings this season. he faced 51 balls and struck six fours. Pedestrian compared with Smith

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Smith bowled by Jack Shantry for 106. His 100 was the third quickest in List A cricket in England. Lancashire 150-1 in the 15th over

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Tom Smith has clubbed a 44-ball century including ten sixes and eight fours. 92 runs in boundaries

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire 100 up in the 11th over

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Tom Smith has marked his comeback from a thigh strain by clubbing a 24-ball 50 including six fours and four sixes. He's just taken 30 off a Nick Harrison over.

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire 50 up in only the seventh over.

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  • ..Worcestershire... won the toss - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Daryl Mitchell has won the toss and will field.

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Worcs: Solanki, Ali, Hughes, Mitchell, Kervezee, Pinner, Leach, D'Oliveira, Cox, Shantry, Harrison.
    Lancashire: Smith, Moore, Croft, Brown, Horton, Cross, Clark, Lilley, Newby, Kerrigan, Hogg.
    Worcestershire wicketkeeper Ben Cox makes his first appearance since May 2011, Lancashire give debut to off-spinner Aaron Lilley

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    The start has been delayed until 2.01pm - not 2pm!!!- woth 38 overs per side. The toss has been made but no one knows who is doing what. Apart from that all is well ay New Road.

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    The toss has been delayed at New Road

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    It's started raining again at New Road but the players are still out there warming up and the toss is about to take place

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    If there is no more rain play will start on time at New Road. Remarkable

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    It's stopped raining at New Road - temporarily at least - and the sides are out there warming up.
    Worcestershire have got a tailor's dummy out there which is presumbaly for their bowlers' to aim at though it may well be more effective as a middle order batsman

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Damp and drizzly at New Road and more rain forcecast for what is a meaningless contest. Lancashire have already secured a home semi-final and they have named an under-powered side for this match

    27/08/2012 (266 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Essex v Lancashire
    Lancashire win by 8 wickets with 21 balls to spare. Croft 66 not out, Brown 87 not out, his highest score of the season.

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  • Essex v Lancashire
    Lancashire close to achieving their sixth win in a row in the CB40 and a home semi-final tie. They only need 8 more runs to win  with 6 overs remaining.  Karl Brown 83, his highest score of the season in any form of the game. 

    23/08/2012 (269 days old) | Read more
  • Essex v Lancashire
    Very impressive batting by Karl Brown and Stephen Croft who are taking Lancashire to the most comfortable of victories and a home tie in the semi-finals. Brown is 68 and Croft 55 , 157 for 2 from 29.4 overs 

    23/08/2012 (269 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Essex v Lancashire
    Croft now reaches 50 having faced 73 balls with 4x4. 137-2 from 26 overs.

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  • Landmark - Essex v Lancashire
    A fine half-century for Karl Brown who reaches the landmark from 57 balls with 2x6, 4x4. Lancashire cruising along 133-2 from 26 overs. Croft 48 not out 

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  • Essex v Lancashire
    Good progress by the Lancashire third wicket pair of Croft and Brown. Their partnership is worth 87 in 16 overs, Croft 39 Brown 47. 115-2  from 24 overs and 72 more runs needed

    23/08/2012 (269 days old) | Read more
  • Essex v Lancashire
    Lancashire 45 for 2 after 10 overs,  Brown 10, Croft 13  

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  • WICKET - Essex v Lancashire
    Two wickets down quickly for Lancashire  who are 34 for 2  after seven overs. Prince  is bowled by Phillips for 14 and then Moore tries a cross batted slog against Chambers and is bowled for 9.

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  • WICKET - Essex v Lancashire
    Ashwell Prince tries a reverse sweep paddle and is bowled by Tim Phillips for 14. Lancashire 21 for 1 after 3 overs and the PA Announcer has just introduced the next batsman as Steffan Parry!

    23/08/2012 (269 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Essex v Lancashire
    Essex all out for 186 with Oliver Newby returning career-best figures of 5 for 35. Concerns here though regarding the floodlights, one of the pylons is not illuminating. 

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  • Essex v Lancashire
    Five overs remaining and Essex  are 165 for 7. A good blow by Phillips adds another 6 to the score as he sends a ball from Shahzad back past the bowler. 

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  • WICKET - Essex v Lancashire
    Adam Wheater is caught at short extra cover by Paul Horton who holds on to a powrful drive  that gives Oliver Newby a fourth wicket. Essex 155 for 7 in the 33rd over. Phillips 20 not out

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  • Essex v Lancashire
    Essex are 150-6 from 31 overs. Foster attempted a padlde sweep and is bowled by Parry  for 13. Wheater 25* and Phillips 18* trying to repair damage with a stand of 44 so far.

    23/08/2012 (269 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Essex v Lancashire
    Greg Smith drives Oliver Newby to Gary Keedy at mid-off and departs for 9, then Ryan ten Doeschate is caught at mid-on off a full toss from  Gary Keedy and Essex are 78 for 4 in 16th over.

    23/08/2012 (269 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Essex v Lancashire
    Lancashire –Moore, Prince, Croft, Brown, Horton, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Newby, Parry, Keedy.

    23/08/2012 (270 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Essex v Lancashire
    Essex – Westley, Pettini, Shah, ten Doeschate, Foster, Smith, Wheater, Singh, Phillips, Chambers, Mills.

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  • Lancashire call up Chilton the coach
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire are employing their former captain and batsman Mark Chilton as a temporary coach

    22/08/2012 (270 days old) | Read more
  • Saj Mahmood joins Somerset on loan
    By Richard Latham
    Somerset have signed Saj Mahmood on loan from Lancashire until the end of the season.

    20/08/2012 (273 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire win by 18 and book their semi-final place. Shahzad gets rid of Fuller thanks to a fine diving catch by Cross. 164 all out. Gloucester really struggling now.

    19/08/2012 (273 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Five wickets for Glen Chapple, Jon Batty bowled. 164-9. 19 needed off five overs. 

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  • Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    James Fuller is 38 not out and Ed Young nine not out. Gloucester 149-7 in the 31st. Thirty four needed. Low-scoring games are always the best. 

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  • Landmark - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    50-stand between Will Gidman and James Fuller has put this game firmly in the balance again. They've gone from 75-6 to 128-6. The equation is 55 off 14 overs. 

    19/08/2012 (273 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Gloucestershire's mini recovery has been stifled by the loss of two wickets, including key man Alex Gidman off Oliver Newby's bowling. The latest man to go is Iain Cockbain top-edging Gary Keedy to deep backward square as he tries to sweep. 75-6 now.  

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  • Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Three wickets for Chapple had put Gloucester on the ropes, but Alex Gidman has just helped to take 17 runs off a Shahzad over. 41-4 after 10.  

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    This is set up for an absolute cracker now. Ajmal Shahzad and Glen Chapple have both struck in the opening three overs to leave Gloucester at 2-2. Both Hamish Marshall and Rob Nicol have gone, caught at backward point and mid-on respectively. Target 183

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire finish with 182-9 thanks to a career best 36 not out for Oliver Newby, whose three fours and a six could be vital. Gloucestershire are favourites and should get the runs, but Lancashire have a chance with two high quality left-armers. 

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  • Interval - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire finish with 182-9 thanks to a career best 36 not out for Oliver Newby, whose three fours and a six could be vital. Gloucestershire are favourites and should get the runs, but Lancashire have a chance with two high quality left-armers. 

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    After one over of batting power play, Lancashire are 144-8 after 36. Glen Chapple has just holed out to cover in the most recent over bowled by David Payne.  

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Ajmal Shahzad has gone, and Lancashire are in real bother at 117-7 in the 29th. He holed out to long-off, handing Young a third wicket. Gareth Cross has been stumped off same bowler in recent times, while Paul Horton was strangled down leg off Fuller.  

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire have lost a couple of wickets in recent overs to leave them in a spot of bother at 85-4 in the 20th. Karl Brown was trapped lbw by Benny Howell and now Steven Croft punts a full toss from Ed Young down mid-on's throat for 31. Gift really.  

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Ashwell Prince has gone, caught at deep square-leg by Dan Housego as he tries to pull David Payne's bowling for 25. Gloucester needed that. 63-2 in the 14th over. 

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    James Fuller has struck to get rid of Lancashire's in-form one-day player Stephen Moore, who has top-edged behind to Jon Batty for 14, 20-1 in the sixth. 

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Glos: Howell, Nicol, Housego, A.Gidman (capt), Marshall, Cockbain, W.Gidman, Young, Batty (wkt), Fuller, Payne.
    Lancs: Moore, Prince, Croft. Brown, Horton, Cross (wkt), Shahzad, Chapple (capt), Parry, Newby, Keedy.

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    GLOUCS: Howell, Nicol, Housego, A Gidman, Marshall, Cockbain, W Gidman, Young, Fuller, Batty, Payne. LANCS: Moore, Prince, Croft, Brown, Horton, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Parry, Newby, Keedy

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire won the toss - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    The Group A leaders have elected to bat against a Gloucestershire side who must win to retain a chance of reaching the semi-finals.

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire won the toss - Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Glen Chapple has opted to have a bat first. 

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Gloucestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire can confirm qualification for the semi-finals with a win today, while Gloucestershire need to win to keep their own hopes alive. Glorious day at Bristol. 

    19/08/2012 (274 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    With Worcester on 33-0 in their second innings, both sets of players shake hands on a draw. Worcester take eight points and Lancashire six. Worcester are now only three points adrift of Lancashire at the bottom with a game in hand and four left to play.

    18/08/2012 (275 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Karl Brown is bowling for the first time this season for Lancashire. Worcester are 28-0 after eight overs of their second innings. 

    18/08/2012 (275 days old) | Read more
  • TEA - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Tea being taken at change of innings. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Kerrigan stumped by Scott off Moeen, 216 all out. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Richardson back on the field as Lancashire move to 216-9. Shahzad and Kerrigan have added 29 for the last wicket. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire gain their first batting bonus point as they pass 200, 202-9 to be precise. Ajmal Shahzad is 22 not out and Simon Kerrigan one not out. 

    18/08/2012 (275 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Bit of a worry for Worcester as Alan Richardson leaves the field after plenty of leg flexing in the last five to 10 minutes. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Worcester clinch their ninth wicket and third bonus point as Glen Chapple, who had hit the previous Moeen ball for six, falls as he tries to repeat the dose the very next ball. Ben Scott completes the stumping. 187-9. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Two wickets in four balls. Now Cross has gone having been bowled by Joe Leach for 39. 151-8. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    The partnership has been broken by Moeen Ali's off-spin as Hogg edges to Mitchell at slip for 14, 151-7 and the end of a 58-run stand. 

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire are enjoying by far and away their best period of the day with a seventh-wicket stand between Gareth Cross and Kyle Hogg ongoing. It has amounted to 54 as we speak. 147-6. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Fourth for Andrew, and Lancashire are still eight away from avoiding the follow-on at 93-6. Steven Croft has gone caught behind for 28. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Second wicket for Alan Richardson as Andrea Agathangelou feathers behind to Ben Scott for seven, 89-5. Proceedings could not have gone any better for Worcester today. 

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  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Fine session for the Pears, who have taken four wickets this morning to restrict the visitors to 84-4 from 34 overs. Steven Croft is 23 not out and Andrea Agathangelou seven not out. Three wickets for Andrew. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    More reward for Worcester, more reward for Gareth Andrew. He has just removed Ashwell Prince via another slip catch for Daryl Mitchell. 60-4. Not sure how much an earlier blow on the right-hand affected Prince. Worcester have been superb this morning. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire's batting problems - it's been flaky all season - are continuing as they slip to 47-3 with the departure of Karl Brown, trapped lbw by Andrew of 12. 47-3 in the 22nd. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    A solid start from the visitors has become a wobbly start within the space of 18 balls as Alan Richardson bowls Luke Procter around his legs after the earlier Andrew strike. Lancashire are 39-2 after 19 overs with Karl Brown and Ashwell Prince in. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Gareth Andrew strikes to get rid of Paul Horton courtesy of a sharp catch at second slip by Worcester skipper Daryl Mitchell. Lancashire are 31-1. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    A fairly solid start to proceedings for Lancashire in what can surely only be a battle for bonus points during day four. 31-0 in the 15th over. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire will continue their first innings on 10-0 from seven overs. Chris Russell to open the bowling from the Diglis End. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    It has actually been raining in the last 15 or 20 minutes at New Road, but it has stopped and the covers are off. We should be good for a start on time. Interestingly there is currently a discussion taking place between captains Chapple and Mitchell. 

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  • Close Of Play - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire, in reply to 251-7 declared, are 10-0 after seven overs of their first innings. Paul Horton and Luke Procter will begin day four on one not out and nine not out respectively.

    17/08/2012 (275 days old) | Read more
  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire have faced the first of seven overs left tonight. 2-0, and both Paul Horton and new opener Luke Procter are off the mark. 

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  • Interval - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Having reached 251-7 to claim a second batting bonus point, Daryl Mitchell has declared. Both sides finish with two bonus points apiece.  

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    By no means racing along, but Worcester have just started to get a bit of a wriggle on with a boundary each for Ben Scott and Gareth Andrew in recent times. They are now 236-7 in the 103rd over.

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Play will indeed start at 5.30pm with 17 overs left in the day. Worcester resume on 224-7. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    After a 20 minute inspection, it has been decided that there will be another inspection at 5.10pm with a view to starting 20 minutes later. Should that be the case, there will be 17 overs left in the day. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    It has stopped raining here, and the umpires are out in the middle inspecting. Lots of mopping up still to do, and I'd be amazed if we get anything more than an hour's play. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Bad news...forget that 1.40pm start. It's raining again. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Good news...start at 1.40pm should there be no further rain and the light holds up. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Rain has stopped, and the umps will inspect at 1.15pm with a view to a 1.30pm start. 

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  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    An early lunch has just been taken. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    We're off for heavy rain with Worcester 224-7 from 98 overs. Talk in press box that we won't see any more cricket today. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Neil Pinner falls 18 short of a maiden ton by succumbing lbw to Glen Chapple, his fourth wicket of the innings. Worcester now 223-7 in the 97th.  

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    A number of plays and misses in the first six overs this morning as Worcester only add three runs to their over night total. They are 222-6 after 96. A couple of crucial bonus points to be decided over next 14 overs. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Play will resume imminently after a 35-minute delay. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    We have only managed to get two overs in and bad light has forced the players off the park with the score at 221-6. Neil Pinner has added the two runs to move to 81 not out. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Well, we do start on time here. The umpires are on their way out. Neil Pinner will resume on 79 and Gareth Andrew on nought. Worcester are 219-6. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    We have weather issues once again at New Road. It's not raining at the moment, but bad light looks like it could cause us a problem. 

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  • Close Of Play - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    That is that from New Road with Worcester at 219-6 from 90 overs. Just about Lancashire's day, but Worcester deserve a lot of credit for an impressive fightback. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Joe Leach has missed out on deserved maiden fifty. He has been beaten for pace and bowled by Shahzad. He and Pinner shared 111 inside 45 overs for the sixth wicket. There is the ultimate insult of coming off for bad light at the end of over. 

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    There's the century stand between Pinner and Leach, who have taken their side to 213-5 after 86 overs. Pinner is 75 and Leach 45. We have 10 overs to go, and Worcester will feel as if they have had the better of the day should they get through unscathed.

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Let-off for Joe Leach, who gets an inside edge on a Chapple delivery with the new ball that would surely have been given out lbw. Leach and Pinner, in only their second Championship appearances, have added an unbroken 90 to switch the momentum. 198-5. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire are employing spin from both ends now in the form of Kerrigan and Croft. There are eight overs to go until the new ball is due. Worcester 178-5. 

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Successive leg side boundaries for Pinner off Chapple take him to a maiden half-century off 100 balls with a total of eight fours. 163-5. 

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  • Landmark - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    The hosts bring up their 150. But, having lost five wickets, they are still on the back foot. Neil Pinner, in only his second Championship match and first since last May, is looking good, however. He is on 43 with Joe Leach or company. 

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  • TEA - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Worcester will resume this evening on 138-5 from 57 overs. Pinner is 33 not out and Joe Leach is unbeaten on 13. We still have 39 to bowl. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    I think I may have just typed Mooen out. He has been trapped lbw for 35 by a Kyle Hogg ball that kept low. 108-5. Big wicket for Lancashire that. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Simon Kerrigan, Lancashire's left-arm spinner, has just entered the fray to bowl the 44th over after seam has dominated the first session and a half. Worcester are now 108-4 with Moeen Ali (35) and Neil Pinner (16) having added an important 40.

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  • Lancs move another game to Liverpool
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have moved their final LV= County Championship match of the season against Surrey from Old Trafford to Liverpool, citing continued

    16/08/2012 (277 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire well on top now as the Chapple-Cross combination strikes again, this time getting rid of Vikram Solanki. Cross dived to his left and held on one-handed as the batsman got an inside edge. 68-4

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    A second wicket for Chapple as Pardoe edges behind to a leaping Cross for 37. Good catch, Worcester are 62-3. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Play will resume at 1.26pm at New Road. 

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  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Rain brings an early lunch with Lancashire on top. Worcester are 33-2 after 22.1 overs. Matt Pardoe is 21 not out and Moeen on five. This could be a lengthy break. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    And there goes James Cameron, trapped lbw by Kyle Hogg for 6, 18-2. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Batting isn't the easiest. After Chapple's early strike there have been a couple of lbw shouts and edges wide of the slips. The hosts are 17-1 after 11 overs, and need to make sure they get through the new ball. 

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  • WICKET - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Glen Chapple strikes the first blow as Daryl Mitchell inside edges onto his pad and it balloons up to a diving Simon Kerrigan at a halfway house between square-leg and short-leg. 2-1 in the third. 

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  • Team News - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    WORCS: Mitchell, Pardoe, Moeen, Solanki, Cameron, Pinner, Leach, Andrew, Scott, Russell, Richardson. LANCS: Horton, Procter, Brown, Prince, Croft, Agathangelou, Cross, Chapple, Shahzad, Kerrigan, Hogg.

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Glen Chapple has won the toss and elected to have a bowl first. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Once again, the toss has been delayed at New Road due to overnight rain and a recent heavy shower. The sun is now out, both sets of players are warming up, and the mopping up process is underway. Just announced as I type, play will start at 11.15am.  

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  • Close Of Play - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Play has been abandoned for the day at New Road. It is still raining heavily and there are puddles all over the outfield. 

    15/08/2012 (278 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Worcestershire v Lancashire
    Early lunch has been taken. There are a couple of fairly hefty puddles on the outfield now - and it's still raining. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    The toss has been delayed at New Road as more covers come on and the brollies in the stands go up. 

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  • Worcestershire v Lancashire
    It is a dark and dank scene at New Road, where the covers are on ahead of the toss. Rain doesn't look too far away at the moment, while the light is awful. Both sets of players are out warming up. 

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Netherlands
    Wins don't come easier than this. Lancs beat the Netherlands by nine wickets with 10.3 overs to spare - in a 27-over game. Moore made 50 not out off 54 balls.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Netherlands
    The farce goes on. Prince run out for four, taking a single to Borren - at slip. 18 for one and Lancs won't make a mess of this.  

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  • Interval - Lancashire v Netherlands
    It's looking like a grim day for Dutch cricket. Netherlands 68 all out, Parry and Keedy three wickets apiece. Netherlands lost all their wickets for 46 runs in 93 deliveries. Lancashire bowled and fielded well. The batting was dreadful.   

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  • Who else will join the 'Compton club'?
    By Andrew Hignell
    A thousand runs in the County Championship – it’s the target most batsmen set themselves in the four-day competition at the start of the summer and also the yardstick by which comparisons are

    12/08/2012 (281 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Netherlands
    de Grooth bowled for six, attempting a dreadful heave at Parry. 52-7.

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  • WICKETS - Lancashire v Netherlands
    van Bunge played on to Keedy for 7 and Neths 49 for five, sorry 50 for six, Coetsee's just been run out for one, attempting a second to Paul Horton's arm from deep midwicket. Not a featherbed wicket but the Dutch wheels are falling off here.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Netherlands
    Barresi ct Croft running back from short cover to take a skier off Keedy for 20. Neths 44-4 after 12 overs and in lots of trouble. Both spinners on for Lancs.  

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  • WICKETS - Lancashire v Netherlands
    Szwarczynski ct Croft b Shahzad 2. A run and a dive from Croft in the gully. It impressed the strangers at Old Trafford but it was a bit of a yawn for Croft and the Old Trafford regulars. Also Borren ct Prince (midwicket) b Newby 0. Neths 33-3.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Netherlands
    Swart caught Horton at slip off Shahzad for 8 and Neths are 22 for one after 5.3 overs 

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  • Lancashire v Netherlands
    Steady enough start by the Netherlands against Chapple and Shahzad. The visitors are 22-0 after five overs and Wesley Barresi has spanked Chapple for two fours, one over cover, one through midwicket.   

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  • Team News - Lancashire v Netherlands
    Lancashire: Moore, Prince, Croft, Brown, Horton, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Parry, Newby, Keedy. Netherlands: Swart, van Bunge, Barresi, Coetsee, Borren, de Grooth, Bukhari, Gruijters, Seelaar, Malik, Szwarczynski.   

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  • Lancashire v Netherlands - Lancashire won the toss....
    and have opted to bowl. 27-over game starting at 3.45

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  • Lancashire v Netherlands
    If there's no further rain, we are to have a 27-over game starting at 3.45. Ten minutes between innings no later than 5.33. News of toss when we get it. 

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  • Lancashire v Netherlands
    Still raining at Manchester but it's brightening up and this doesn't look like an abandonment. The spectators are sitting stoically, no doubt cheered that they don't have the sound of construction engines in their ears.         

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  • Cricket Diary: Yorkshire's wait, Surrey's stir
    By Richard Gibson
    Tim Bresnan is yet to be given clearance from England to play for Yorkshire in Twenty20 finals day – although he will be under family pressure to make sure he is available on August 25.

    11/08/2012 (281 days old) | Read more
  • Finn incident prompts new instruction
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    County umpires have been told not to call dead ball if a bowler breaks the wicket at the non-striker’s end in his delivery stride as England seamer Steven Finn did in the Headingley Test

    10/08/2012 (283 days old) | Read more
  • Watkins joins new Lancashire board
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have made the first appointment to their new 10-man board, with former Manchester United Football Club director Maurice Watkins joining the

    07/08/2012 (286 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Somerset
    Match abandoned as a draw. Outfield still sodden. No one can really complain about the decision. Both Lancashire and Somerset take six points.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    There is to be another inspection at 4.15. However, the umpires have reported that the outfield is very wet - that much we knew - and that conditions have not improved. An abandonment beckons?  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    In a corner of the ground Ajmal Shahzad is playing Saj Mahmood at table-tennis. I wonder if either of them plans to podium or medal at Rio. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are to have another inspection at 3.30 but the chances of a resumption are pretty slim.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Something of a first here. It is still raining very hard and not only is the outfield soaking, much of the press tent is under water too. The photographers' equipment is floating away. Outground cricket is such fun!

    04/08/2012 (289 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We have a fair-sized thunderstorm going on at Aigburth and may be set for a considerable delay. Both umpires and groundstaff have been very efficent in getting the game back on but this rascal will test them. 

    04/08/2012 (289 days old) | Read more
  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset have got to lunch on 93-3, Compton 27, Kieswetter 21. An evenly-contested session. However, thunder is rumbling around Aigburth and rain threatens to wreck what promises to be a fascinating conclusion to this game.      

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Hildreth goes for 9, well caught by Agathangelou diving across from second slip to take the catch off Hogg's bowling.  Somerset are 67 for three. Chapple (8-4-16-1) has been replaced by Kerrigan. This is very good stuff. Compton's 23, Kieswetter two.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Trescothick's gone for 27, lbw playing across the line to Chapple. Maybe kept a smidgeon low. Somerset 48-2. Hildreth in. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancashire have just had a male voice choir of an appeal turned down. They thought they had Trescothick caught behind off Chapple. Peter Hartley didn't. Cue more double teapots than you'd see in a china shop. Somerset 48-1

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Horton's just dropped Trescothick off Chapple but it was a brutal chance, high to his left. Horton leapt, but still  only got his fingertips to it. Trescothick's now on 15, Compton nine, Somerset 32 for one. Already this is tense stuff.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Morning from Aigburth where Somerset have just begun their pursuit of 279 to beat Lancashire. This is indeed a crucial day for both sides. Compton's cut a four off Shahzad but also played and missed to the same bowler

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset 22 for one, need 257 to win tomorrow. Trescothick, Compton, Hildreth....Chapple, Hogg, Kerrigan.... One team will medal tomorrow evening.

    03/08/2012 (289 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset have made a poor start to their second innings and are 21 for one, Suppiah having fallen lbw to Chapple for four in the third over. Less than three overs to go now

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince lbw Trego 129. Barely a person on the ground, including the Somerset team, failed to applaud him off the ground. Lancashire 242 all out, Somerset need 279 to win, There are still eleven overs to be bowled tonight.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Now Prince is clubbing and scooping fours. He is 124 not out, Lancs are 233-9 and the lead is 269. Unimaginable riches this morning. Somerset may be thinking that if Prince can do it......... 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Shahzad lbw Hussain 5. Lancs 204-9. Still 22 overs to go here.  

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince reaches his hundred with an off drive off Thomas. Brilliant really is the word for his innings. Prince batted 274 minutes, faced 190 balls and hit nine fours. Lancs are 204 for 8, a lead of 240.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    RSP with Lancs on 198-8, Prince 97. Not many batsmen this season will have deserved a century more. They can be few more interesting reflections on the strength of the SA Test side than the fact that Prince can't get in it. The lead is 234. 

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  • TEA - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs 184-8 at tea, a lead of 220. Prince 86 not out. Leach 2-30, a very good effort by the rookie slow left-armer, especially since he was bowling to Prince in fine form.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Leach gets his revenge. Chapple, trying to force the ball off the back foot, is caught at slip by Trescothick for 14. 180-8.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs are now 179-7 and Chapple has just hit the first six of the match, thrashing Jack Leach into the cheery bunch congregated in front of the bowling green. Not that they were very cheery at 12.30 this morning. Prince 84 not out, the lead is 215.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    A Somerset breakthrough. Leach takes his first championship wicket when Hogg drives him to Kirby at deepish mid off. Hogg made 38 and added 98 with Prince, who's 69 not out. The lead is 185. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince reaches 50 by taking ten off a Trego over. It took him 173 minutes. He was dropped on six by Thomas. Lancs 129-6 and the runs are coming a little more freely now. Leach is on and bowling well on his Championship debut.   

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince and Hogg have now added 65 for the 7th wicket. Hogg (34 not out) has now batted for 95 minutes; it is only the second time he has batted for longer than an hour in the Championship this season. Lancs 115-6, a lead of 151. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset's bowlers are keeping a tight line here but, mirabile dictu for Lancastrians, they are being met with straight bats. Very straight in Prince's case, mostly straight in Hogg's. Lancs 99-6, a lead of 135. When will the lead concern Trescothick?  

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancashire reach lunch on 72 for six and you'd have got good odds on that when Cross was out 42 minutes ago. Prince has batted with excellent judgement for 27, Hogg is on 13. The lead's 108; what would a good target be? 140 minimum?   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancashire go from slump to farce. Cross run out for three and Lancashire are 50 for 6. Good stop and throw by the bowler (Thomas) prompted the misunderstanding. Fine cricket by Somerset incl. Kieswetter; Lancs not quite as good.   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Agathangelou bowled by Thomas for 5. Middle stump cartwheeling, AA playing an expansive drive. 41-5

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Having cut wildly at Thomas and missed, Croft attempted the same brainless shot two balls later and played on for 14. Lancs 31 for four, a lead of 67.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Prince dropped on six, a hard return catch to Alfonso Thomas with the total on 22. How much will that cost Somerset? Lancs are now 27-3 and edging towards mediocrity.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Shock at Liverpool where no wicket has fallen for 15 minutes. "It's our game," observes a Somerset fielder loudly. It certainly is at the moment. Lancashire 22-3 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Update from bedlam. Brown was playing no shot to Kirby. Lancs have reached the broad sunlit uplands of double figures. Somerset, as they did in the first dig, are bowling very straight. 11-3  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Chaos here.  Moore run out for one after being sent back by Brown. Moore drove straight, bowler Trego got a touch to it, Hussain (mid off) completed fielding. Moore was sprinting vainly back. Now Brown has gone too. Lancs 7-3 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Another top dollar start from Lancs. Horton plays on to Trego fifth ball of the morning. Tried to take the bat away but had to take himself away instead. 3-1, a lead of 39  

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Somerset
    Chapple bowls Kirby and Somerset are all out for 149, giving a Lancashire a first-innings lead of 36. something they would have more than settled for this morning. Chapple 3-38, Kerrigan 3-47.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Buttler lbw for 18 playing barely half forward and across the line to Hogg. Somerset 148-8

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Thomas lbw Kerrigan attempting to lap the spinner to leg. Stepped across stumps. Lancs 125 for 7 and the home side may well be batting again tonight.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Trego caught at point by Croft for 17 attempting to turn Shazad to leg and Somerset are now 122 for six.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    5.15 restart at Aigburth. 29 overs still to be bowled. The spectators will be delighted, I hope. This has been a top day's cricket.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are to have an inspection at 5.00. The umpires in this match - Hartley and Llong - have been top notch. Out as soon as the rain stopped, regular inspections and information quickly passed on to the punters. That's the way to do it.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Well it's absolutely hosed it down here and the shower caught the groundstaff a tad by surprise too. Any further play must be in doubt, but that's what we thought yesterday. It's a shame because the cricket this afternoon has been high quality stuff. 

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  • WICKETS - Lancashire v Somerset
    Kieswtter's gone, caught at backward point by Horton attempting to hit Kerrigan to Tranmere. And also Hildreth, who lost his off pole to Shahzad next over. Somerset 89-5 and now it's rain stopped play. A mighty shower too.      

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Kieswetter has slashed Simon Kerrigan just above Agathangelou's right hand at slip - a technical chance? The debutant's slip fielding is highly rated at Old Trafford and he has displaced Horton when only one slip is required.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Simno Kerrigan has just had Nick Compton lbw sweeping for 22. The wicket ended a fine period of hard-fought cricket as Hildreth and Compton resisted an in-form Chapple and the other seamers. Somerset 54-3 after 23 overs.  

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Somerset
    Nick Compton is 13 not out and has therefore passed 1,000 Championship runs for the season.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    James Hildreth has just been dropped by Ashwell Prince at third slip off Ajmal Shahzad. He was on 13 and Somerset would have been 23-3. Going very quickly, of course, but at a catchable height. Somerset now 29-2 and Chapple is bowling his tripes out.

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset 6-2 at lunch. The locals are a little less mutinous, the visitors somewhat less cheerful.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Trescothick's gone and Somerset are 4-2. Chapple had the Somerset skipper caught in the gully by Moore. MT edged a ball he was looking to play to leg. Chapple may be getting the same degree of swing Trego managed from the River End. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Immediate success for Lancashire. Suppiah plays on to Chapple in the first over and Somerset are 1-1.   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs all out for 185, Kerrigan caught at slip by Hildreth off Kirby for one and Lancs lost their last five wickets for 56 in 17.1 overs today. Somerset have looked very good in the field; the batting may be more of a test.     

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Agathangelou is just out for a competent 24 and gets a good hand from the crowd. He was caught at slip by Trego off Kirby. Looked a well organised player. Lancs 179-9. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Thomas has taken three wickets in 30 balls, the latest of them Chapple, who drove him backward of square to Compton. Lancs are 163 for 8, Agathangelou 12.   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    A brief moment of Lancastrian optimism has been swiftly extinguished and gloom restored. Hogg c Compton (backward point) off Thomas for a bright 13. Agathangelou is 11 and has played safely enough. Lancs 154 for 7.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Under way on time at Aigburth, pleasant enough weather and a good crowd. Lancashire have lost a wicket without addition to their overnight score. Cross lbw, playing across a ball from Thomas 7. Lancashire 129-6 and we've had nine balls in the day.

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs close on 129 for five. The excellent Peter Trego finished with 4-34, including the key wickets of Prince (51) and Brown (39). Agathangelou is nought not out and will have learned a few things in the final 20 minutes.     

    01/08/2012 (291 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Somerset
    After three inspections we are to make a restart at 5.15. There are 22 overs to be bowled. Good to see the patience of the punters at Liverpool justified. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are to have another inspection at 5.00 here, which is fair enough. Both groundstaff and umpires are working hard to get the game back on. The spectators who have waited are now sunbathing. If we do get on, it will be a tricky session for Lancs.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Mopping up operations have begun at Liverpool and the umpires are to make another inspection at 4.30. The diehards who have hung on in the hope of a restart could not have expected better news. Both groundstaff and umpires have got to work swiftly.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    It has rained big style in Liverpool and prospects of an imminent restart are nil. There is bright sunshine on the Wirral, though, and I don't think this rain has set in for the day. Whether we'll get any more play is another matter.   

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are off for rain again here. Lancs are 91 for two, Brown 33, Prince 35, the pair having added 30 since lunch. Good watching, it was, too, but I suspect the rain has set in for a while. The groundstaff are hauling covers onto the wicket surrounds. 

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    A flurry of boundaries at Liverpool, two back foot drives by Prince and a pair of stroked/guided boundaries to point and third man by Brown. Lancs 87 for two. Kirby and Hussain bowling.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    We are back on at Liverpool. Two overs have been deducted from the day's allocation.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Rain stopped play only four dots into the afternoon session at Aigburth. A scattering of umbrellas are up around the ground but the groundstaff are loitering by the covers, suggesting that the delay may not be too prolonged. Lancs 61-2  

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs are 61 for two at lunch, Brown 25 and Prince 15. Trego has taken 2-12 off 10 and Taunton-born Jack Leach has bowled his first over in County Championship cricket. It was decent enough, five dots and an edged two. He is on his way.   

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs 47-2, Brown having driven three lovely fours , two of Trego, one off Hussain. Trego has been taken off with figures of 10-7-12-2 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Horton lbw Trego 12. Lancs opener was on front foot but had not really got a big stride in. Lancs 28-2. Trego's figures are now 9-7-7-2. He has conceded runs off the 41st and 53rd balls of his spell. Lancs 31-2  

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  • Glamorgan v Gloucestershire
    Torrential rain at Swansea means the umpires have called an early lunch at 12.30 but with water now lying on the outfield we will be lucky to start much before tea.

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  • Cricket Diary: Miller's decision, Bumble's dragon
    By Richard Gibson
    Big-hitting David Miller has declared himself available for Yorkshire if they reach the Champions League – despite it meaning he will miss up to three first-class matches for his South African franchise

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Brown has just driven Trego for four and the Somerset seamer has therefore conceded his first runs of the morning off the 41st ball of his spell. Lancs 22-1. It's gloomy here and every run has to be fought for.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancs 11-1. Moore ct Trescothick b Trego 2. Moore was pushing forward;  Trescothick made a tricky catch look absurdly easy. Trego's figures are now 5-5-0-1.     

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Lancashire have lost 12 of their last 14 home tosses in County Championship games. (Glen Chapple probably does not buy his family's lottery tickets.) Lancs 1-0 after three overs.  

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Teams: Lancs: Horton, Moore, Brown, Prince, Croft, Agathangelou, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Hogg, Kerrigan. Somerset: Suppiah, Trescothick, Compton, Hildreth, Kieswetter, Buttler, Trego, Thomas, Kirby, Leach, Hussain.  

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  • ..... won the toss - Lancashire v Somerset
    Somerset have won toss and have decided to field. Trescothick plays his first game since April. Leach makes debut for Somerset, Agathangelou likewise for Lancs. Start at 11.15.

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  • Lancashire v Somerset
    Good morning from a frankly autumnal Aigburth where we are to have a late start. This has been caused by some damp patches on the Liverpool outfield. Somerset have included 21-year-old left-arm spinner Jack Leach in their squad.  

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  • Result - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    It wasn't as simple as it looked like it might be at one stage but Lancashire move to the top of the table with a 4-wicket win with 5 balls left. Horton and Brown's 82-run 4th-wicket partnership proved decisive.

    30/07/2012 (293 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    Things have got interesting with the wickets of Brown (60) and Horton (46) in successive overs and Lancs need 15 from 13 with 5 wickets in hand.

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  • Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    A 74-run partnership between Horton and Brown has moved Lancashire within 30 runs of victory with 5 overs to go. 162-3.

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  • Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    At the half-way stage and Lancashire have just lost their 3rd wicket, Moore gone for 37. A few jitters for Lancashire at 81-3 and they need another 104 runs.

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  • Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    Lancashire well on course after 8 overs, batting there way sensibly to the top of the table at this rate. 43-0 after 8.

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  • Interval - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    A run-a-ball 58 from Ian Cockbain has helped push Gloucestershire to 185-7 after a disciplined bowling display from Lancashire. Cockbain hit three successive sixes in the final over and Lancashire will back themselves.

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  • Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    The wicket of Dan Housego (43) has brought the Gloucestershire run-rate to a standstill. 125-5 with 9 overs to go. They'd settle for a score of 180 from here

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    Alex Gidman goes for 14, bowled by Oliver Newby. 89-4 and Lancs are on top.

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  • Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    At the half-way point of the innings Gloucestershire have scrapped to 71-3, with Dan Housego (24) trying to lead the recovery.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    Another Gladiator goes down as Hamish Marshall falls over a full one from Oliver Newby and is plumb lbw for 23. Gloucestershire 36-3 after 11 overs.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    Benny Howell falls advancing down the pitch to Glen Chapple, getting a nick behind from an leg-cutter. 25-2 off 7.2 ov.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    Rob Nicol goes for 6, slapping a drive straight to Glen Chapple at mid-off. Ajmal Shahzad picks up his first wicket and Gloucs are 12-1 off 3.

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  • Gloucestershire won the toss - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    Gloucs have chosen to bat at Old Trafford on a cracked pitch. A win for Gloucestershire will put them top of Group A while a win for Lancashire will put them joint top with Middlesex. 

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  • Team News - Lancashire v Gloucestershire
    Lan: SC Moore, AG Prince, SJ Croft, KR Brown, PJ Horton, GD Cross, A Shahzad, OJ Newby, G Chapple, SD Parry, G Keedy. Glo: RJ Nicol, HJH Marshall, BAC Howell, DM Housego, JK Fuller, APR Gidman, CDJ Dent, IA Cockbain, EGC Young, JN Batty, DA Payne 

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  • Lancs move crucial Championship match to Liverpool
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire have opted to move the penultimate home match of their LV= County Championship campaign against Durham from Old Trafford to their second home at Liverpool.

    27/07/2012 (297 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Cardiff t20 beds crisis
    By Richard Gibson
    Supporters of Hampshire, Sussex and Yorkshire are already experiencing problems with restricted hotel availability for the Friends Life t20 finals day – a month before the event.

    27/07/2012 (297 days old) | Read more
  • Moores staying calm as relegation looms
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Peter Moores will not press the panic button as Lancashire stare a relegation battle full in the face.

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  • Result - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire win by six wickets with 4.2 overs to spare as Steven Croft finishes on 57 not out. They have won five from seven and must now be the favourites to top Group A with games in hand on Middlesex and the Netherlands above them. 

    22/07/2012 (301 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Ashwell Prince has gone for 85, pulling Alex Wyatt to deep mid-wicket. He and Croft (51 no) added 97 in 16 overs for the second wicket. The visitors are 205-2 in the 33rd as they pursue 219. 

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  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    With Lancashire cruising towards the win, the big question is will Prince (76) get a hundred and will Croft (31) get a fifty. They need 43 with ten and a bit overs to go. 

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  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Despite losing Stephen Moore for 60, Lancashire are still well on their way in the early stages of the 21st over. They are 122-1 with Ashwell Prince on 47. They need another 97. 

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  • Landmark - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    50 for Moore off 46 balls, his fifth in seven 40-over matches this year. Incredible for a player who hasn't passed 47 in the Championship! The Lightning are 103-0 in the 16th. 

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  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Stephen Moore, who can't buy a run in the Championship, is continuing his excellent form in one-day cricket this summer. He has moved to 36 as Lancashire have moved to 51-0 in the ninth over in their pursuit of 219. 

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  • Interval - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Leicester finish on 218-8 after 40 overs thanks to an excellent 83 not out off 74 balls for Shiv Thakor. Glen Chapple finishes with 4-46 off eight, including two in the last over. 

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  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    The batting power play has been called for the last four overs of the innings with the Foxes on 176-5.

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  • WICKET - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Shortly after Shiv Thakor brings up his half-century off 56 balls, Matt Boyce is stumped by Cross off Keedy as he attempts to reverse sweep. Gone for 53. 169-5 now. The stand between the pair was 96. 

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  • Landmark - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    50 for Matt Boyce off 60 balls with two fours. Leicester have recovered pretty well here thanks to Boyce and Shiv Thakor, who is 43 no. They have added 84 inside 16, 152-4 in the 32nd. 

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  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    A fairly quiet period in the game...Foxes pair of Shiv Thakor and Matt Boyce are happy to pick up the ones and twos and not take too many risks as they look to rebuild and get up to a score in the region of 200. They 120-4 in the 26th. Both men in 30s now.

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  • WICKET - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Ajmal Shahzad has struck twice to put the Lightning in the driving seat. First he had Ramnaresh Sarwan caught at cover off a leading edge and has just bowled Michael Thornely off the inside edge. The Foxes are 68-2 after 16. 

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  • Landmark - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    The Foxes move past 50 for the loss of two wickets in the eleventh as Michael Thornely punches Tom Smith wide of mid-on. 

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  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Leicester move on to 38-2 after nine overs. Greg Smith was bowled by Glen Chapple in the sixth over. Ajmal Shahzad into the attack. 

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  • WICKET - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Tom Smith, who had a loan spell at Grace Road earlier in his career, has struck in his first over, trapping Will Jones lbw for four. The Foxes are 6-1. 

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  • Team News - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    LEICS: Jones, Sarwan (c), Smith, Thornely, Boyce, Thakor, Dixey (w), Taylor, Joseph, Sykes, Wyatt. LANCS: Moore, Smith, Croft, Brown, Horton, Prince, Cross (w), Shahzad, Chapple (c), Parry, Keedy.

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Glen Chapple has won the toss and elected to bowl first at a sunny Grace Road.

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  • An unwanted century for Yorkshire
    By Andrew Hignell
    Yorkshire have set an unwanted record in this soggy summer, becoming the first county to top 100 hours of lost cricket in the LV= County Championship.

    22/07/2012 (302 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire relieved to escape pitch penalty
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire will be mightily relieved at the outcome of Friday night’s review into the state of the Old Trafford pitch used for their LV= County Championship defeat against Worcestershire

    21/07/2012 (303 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    The panel deemed the pitch as poor, which could have led to a points deduction. However, the panel deemed there were extenuating circumstances, including bad weather affecting preparation time. 

    20/07/2012 (303 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Lancashire have not been penalised after a three-man pitch panel convened at Old Trafford tonight to investigate the pitch conditions for their three-day defeat against Worcestershire, which finished earlier.

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  • Result - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Lancashire lose to Worcs by 205 runs, Ali takes 6-29 in the innings and 12-96 in the match. A pitch panel is being convened. Lancs were bowled for 63, their lowest at Old Trafford since they were bowled out for 62 by Somerset in 1963. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Smith caught behind off Ali for three. Lancs 37-6, just 232 runs to go now. On the other hand...Gareth Cross has reached double figures.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Prince has gone, caught by Scott off Ali for one and Lancs are 24-5. Lowest total stats are being consulted.    

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Croft caught behind off Ali for 8, two balls after whacking him over long on for six. 21-4.

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  • WICKETS - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Lancashire lose two wickets in six balls. Moore caught in the gully off Richardson for 9 and Brown caught by Solanki in the leg trap off Ali's fourth ball for 0. Lancs are now 15 for three, needing a mere 254 more to win. Worcestershire are in full cry.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Lancashire's victory charge begins in fine style as Horton is lbw to Richardson second ball of the innings for nought.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcs 139 all out, so Lancs need 269 to win. Croft took the last wicket (Richardson) and finished with 6-41, a career best.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Solanki reached an excellent fifty and then Choudhry was caught and bowled for 6 after skying Croft. Solanki was lbw to Croft's next ball giving the spinner a career-best. Worcs 135-9   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Ben Scott caught in the gully off Kerrigan for 0. This game is - as I'll bet Don Bradman never said - a great leveller. Solanki, though, is 46 and Worcs are 127-7.  

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    36.4 overs in the session at Old Trafford and Worcestershire go into lunch on 118-6, a lead of 247. That's plenty, you would think. Solanki 39no.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Andrew departs, caught at deep mid off by Shahzad off Croft. A good 29, though, which has changed the  complexion of this match in Worcestershire's favour. 117-6

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    An excellent Worcestershire counter-attack here. Gareth Andrew has 29 off 38 balls and Worcs are 112-5. Solanki is 33no and does not yet look in a grizzly mood; Lancashire may be, though: the lead is 240.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Pardoe lbw Croft, shaping to hit to leg. One of Worcestershire's first innings barnacles removed. 72-5 now

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Cameron caught by Prince off Croft for 2. Worcestershire 61-4. A lead of 190. Game on?

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Moeen Ali caught in leg trap by Croft off Kerrigan for 5. Worcs 54 for 3, a lead of 183.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Mitchell caught down the leg side off Chapple for 23 and Kerrigan on in the 10th over. Worcs 40-1, a lead of 169. And Kerrigan strikes with his third ball! Hughes caught at short leg by Smith for 12. Worcs 40-2.

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire are now 24-0 against Lancashire and Glen Chapple has resisted the temptation to begin with a spinner. It's himself and Kyle Hogg with an all but new ball. We suspect Kerrigan will be on very soon though.  

    20/07/2012 (304 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Morning from Old Trafford where we are under way on time. "According to the three weather forecasts I checked, it should be raining right now," says someone. Well it's not, so there. Worcs 16-0, a lead of 145. Lancs are under the pump.    

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Rain wrecks the evening session and Worcestershire end the day on 9-0, a lead of 138 at the close of a great day for them. No one would bet too much money on Lancashire chasing many above 200, if that, in the fourth innings.   

    19/07/2012 (304 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Kerrigan bowled Choudhry 20 and Lancashire all out for 162. A last-wicket stand of 43 but Worcs have a first innings lead of 129. Choudhry finishes with 4-38 and Ali 6-67. Lancashire poor, Worcestershire good, weather dull, pavilion crumbling.   

    19/07/2012 (305 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Rain stops play at Old Trafford with Lancashire on 154 for 9. Kerrigan and Hogg's stand has added 35 runs and is comfortably the second-highest of the innings. Choudhry and Ali have been very good. Early tea now       

    19/07/2012 (305 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    A Simon Kerrigan sweep saves the follow-on! Kerrigan is 14, Hogg 15, and Lancashire are 148-9. Moeen Ali's six-wicket haul is a career-best, beating his 5-36 v Middlesex at Lord's in 2010.  

    19/07/2012 (305 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    The disasters go on for Lancashire, who are 119-8 having lost Cross and Shahzad in the space of three Moeen deliveries, both batsmen being caught at short leg by Matt Pardoe. And now Chapple's gone in the exactly the same way for five. 119-9.   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Smith top-edged Ali to Richard Jones at backward square-leg and Lancs are 106-6. Getting to 142 and saving the follow-on will need some application now - although would Worcs enforce it?

    19/07/2012 (305 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Things go from bad to worse for Lancs, who are now 102 for five, having lost Croft, bowled by Choudhry for 16. They go from good to better for the slow left-armer Chourdhry, though. These are already his career-best figures.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    More success for Worcestershire's spinners. Karl Brown is out for nine, stumped when attempting an ungainly heave off Choudhry. Lancashire are now 86-4, still more than 200 in arrears, having lost four wickets in 14 overs  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Key wicket for Worcestershire four balls after lunch. Prince played forward defensively to off-spinner Ali, the ball caught the edge and Scott took the catch. Lancs leading run-scorer in four-day cricket was gone for one and the home side are 72-3. 

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Lancashire 68-2 at lunch. Both openers were dismissed by the spinners in the half hour before the break. Moore holed out at deep mid on off Ali for 26 and Horton was lbw to the impressive Choudhry for 34. More help for the twirlers here 

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  • Anderson backs Croft for World T20 role
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Steven Croft can be a star for England in September’s ICC World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka, according to Lancashire team-mate Jimmy Anderson.

    19/07/2012 (305 days old) | Read more
  • Patel named county cricket's most valuable player
    By Robin Hutchison
    Two wickets for 42 runs and an innings of 36 from 35 balls in a six-wicket Clydesdale Bank 40 win over Hampshire on Tuesday night

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    We are back on here after an 18-minute delay.

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Six members of the groundstaff incl. head groundsman Matt Merchant are now out in the middle, plus the two umpires and the Lancs Chief. Exec. Jim Cumbes. Play stopped at 11.42 with Lancs on 34-0. Turf is being replaced. Gripping stuff - one hopes.    

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Major conflab at Old Trafford. A damp patch just behind the batting crease at the Pavilion End caused the Worcestershire bowlers concern and the players have come off, apparently only briefly, while repairs are done.     

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Lancs 13 for no wicket at Old Trafford in reply to Worcestershire's 291 all out, A day neither Ben Scott nor Steven Croft will forget. The spectators will remember it too, not least because the weather was glorious. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Ben Scott is out for an excellent 106, caught Chapple bowled Kerrigan. He was the last man to be dismissed and Worcestershire have made 291 in their first innings, riches after being 93 for six. Lancs have ten mins to bat.      

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Matt Pardoe reached his first fifty of the season but was run out - by Steven Croft of course - for 55 after facing seven further balls. Worcestershire are now 225 for seven and Pardoe's stand with Scott was worth 127 runs. Scott is 74no   

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  • TEA - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire are 193 for six at tea. The Pardoe/Scott partnership is now worth exactly 100 runs, which makes the visitors' loss of five wickets in 11 overs earlier in the day all the more tricky to explain.  

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Ben Scott has reached an excellent fifty off 99 balls and the Worcestershire recovery is gathering strength. The visitors are now 191 for six. The Lancs spinners are back on but look nothing like as threatening as they did either side of lunch.

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire have mounted a fightback here. Neither Matt Pardoe nor Ben Scott lack for grit and the pair have added 61 in 18 overs to take the total to 154 for six. Lancashire's spinners have been replaced by Chapple and Shahzad. Weather still splendid.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire 93 for six and Steven Croft Day continues at Old Trafford. James Cameron (18) and Gareth Andrew (0) were both caught at leg slip by Croft off successive Simon Kerrigan deliveries.  

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  • Pietersen omitted from World Twenty20 probables
    Kevin Pietersen has, as expected, been omitted from England's 30-man provisional squad for their defence of the World Twenty20, which gets underway in Sri Lanka in September

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Steven Croft's timing could scacely be bettered. He has just been named in the provisional 30-man squad for the World Twenty20. His current bowling figures are 5-0-8-3.  

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire 77 for four and this could be a day to remember for Steven Croft. Solanki has just been caught at backward point by Ashwell Prince for 15 to give the Lancashire all-rounder his third wicket.    

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Another wicket for Croft. Ali caught at slip for two, playing forward. Worcestershire are currently 64 for three, Solanki is on 13 and Lancashire's spinners are in full cry.

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire are 56 for two after an absorbing morning played out under high clouds; decent cricket weather in fact. Kerrigan has taken one for 28 off eight, but has bowled better than that. Croft's use suggests a spinner's pitch   

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Phillip Hughes lbw to Steven Croft for 32 on the stroke of lunch. He was playing back and had survived a mighty lbw shout playing no shot to the same bowler two overs previously. Worcestershire 56 for two.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Daryl Mitchell's out, caught by Tom Smith in the gully off Simon Kerrigan for 12. Had been on the cards for a couple of overs. Kerrigan is bowling well and Worcestershire are on 44 for one after 21 overs.       

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire are 33 for nought after 15 overs and Chapple has already brought on Simon Kerrigan, who was pitted against Kevin Pietersen last week. Daryl Mitchell and Phil Hughes may be less stressful foes.     

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  • ..... won the toss - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Worcestershire win toss and bat at Old Trafford. Teams: Lancs: Horton, Moore, Brown, Prince, Croft, Smith, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Hogg, Kerrigan. Worcestershire: Mitchell, Hughes, Solanki, Ali, Cameron, Pardoe, Andrew, Scott, Jones, Choudhry, Richardson.   

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  • Gloucestershire v Leicestershire
    Delayed start here at a soggy Cheltenham College. It has been raining since breakfast time and the prospect of any play before lunch is not good. It has been a damp festival so far with only 100 overs possible in last week's four-day game against Essex.

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Good morning from Old Trafford, where we are set for an 11.30 start and no overs lost. This can be considered rather an achievement given the amount of rain in Manchester yesterday and overnight. No news on teams as yet.

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  • South Africa will beat England: Prince
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Ashwell Prince is backing South Africa to replace England as the world’s number one ranked Test team this summer - but only just.

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  • Result - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire win by seven wickets as Steven Croft finishes with 45 off 35 balls and Karl Brown 36 not out. They shared 79 in ten overs for the third wicket. The Lightning move level on eight points with second-placed Middlesex with a game in hand. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    50 stand and counting for Brown and Croft with Lancashire coasting towards the win now. They are 78-2 in the 12th. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Revised target of 97 off 15 overs. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Brief rain with Lancashire at 48-2 after 8.1 overs. We need ten overs for a game. Players on their way back out now. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire are making heavy weather of this chase. They are 29-2 after six overs in their pursuit of 103. They have lost openers Stephen Moore and Tom Smith to Toby Roland-Jones and Steven Crook respectively. Karl Brown and Steven Croft are together. 

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  • Interval - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Middlesex finish with 97-8. Dawid Malan top-scored with 48, while left-arm spinner Stephen Parry finished with excellent figures of 4-21 from his four overs. Parry took two wickets in the last over, which yielded three wickets in all. Target revised to 103.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Dawid Malan has just holed out to Ashwell Prince at long-on for 48 off 36 balls, Ajmal Shahzad the bowler. It was the last ball of the over, although the previous five cost 17 runs. Middlesex are 67-3 after 11 overs. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Paul Stirling has just been caught down the leg-side by Gareth Cross off left-arm spinner Stephen Parry for six, leaving the Panthers at 45-2 in the ninth. It is Parry's second wicket having earlier had Joe Denly stumped. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Middlesex are 25-0 after 4.3 overs. Dawid Malan has just smashed Glen Chapple down the ground for six. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    8.15pm start with 16 overs per side. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Assuming the rain stops, we will have an 8pm start with 18 overs per side. Don't hold your breath. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    You can scrap the idea of a 7.30pm start. The rain has been falling for the last 20 minutes and the covers are only just coming off. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    If there is no further rain, play will resume at 7.30pm with a 22 overs per side contest. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    The rain returns with Middlesex 4-0 after 2.3 overs. Let's just forget this summer and start the season in January when the weather's better.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    So we're underway with a 32 overs per side contest, the first of which was a maiden from Glen Chapple. Two bowlers can bowl seven overs and three can bowl six. The power plays will be seven overs, three overs and three overs.



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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    There will be a further inspection at OT at 5.45pm with a view to starting at 6pm. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Play won't start on time. Players lining up, Joe Denly takes his guard and Glen Chapple is at the end of his run-up. Down comes the rain. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Play will start on time. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Raining again at OT. That would be the ultimate insult for Morgan. They've just had the toss and the teams named, the match could be delayed and he could well turn up in time for the start and not be able to play.  

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  • Team News - Lancashire v Middlesex
    LANCS: Moore, Prince, Croft, Brown, Horton, Smith, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Parry, Keedy. MIDDX: Denly, Malan, Stirling, Rayner, Berg, Dexter, Rogers, Simpson, Smith, Crook, Roland-Jones.

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  • Team News - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Eoin Morgan is ruled out of tonight's clash after the train he was due to be on to Manchester was cancelled. Lancashire will be delighted seen as he cracked 116 off 54 against them at Lord's last month. 

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Glen Chapple, playing his first CB40 match of the season, has elected to bowl. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Play due to start on time at 4.40pm with a toss shortly. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Not sure of the exact details, but Eoin Morgan is not present at Old Trafford because he's stuck on a train somewhere. He'll be delighted at the prospect of a delayed start. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    A few damp patches on the outfield, so toss will be delayed. 

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    There is currently an inspection taking place at Old Trafford. It has been raining all day in Manchester up until around 3pm. They are still hopefully of play starting on time at 4.40pm or shortly afterwards. 

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  • Close Of Play - Surrey v Lancashire
    The match at Guildford has been abandoned and thus finishes as a draw. Surrey take nine points from the match and Lancashire eight. 

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    There will be no play before lunch, which will be taken at 12.30 with a view to starting at 1.10pm. The likelihood of no play today is very very high. 

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    There will be a delayed start at Guildford due to a wet outfield. Umpires' inspection at 11am. 

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  • Close Of Play - Surrey v Lancashire
    Surrey 430-5. Pietersen 234 not out, with eight sixes and 30 fours. A remarkable innings.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    Pietersen 200, with a pull for a single off Shahzad. He has faced 170 balls, hitting seven sixes and 25 fours. A magnificent innings. Surrey 395-5.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Still the Pietersen show goes on. KP's now 185* from 155 balls, with 24 fours and six sixes, and Surrey are 362-4. Jason Roy, his latest partner, has gone smoothly to 24.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    Pietersen 150, from 130 balls with five sixes and 19 fours. KP has now moved on to 154 but he has lost Davies, caught at the wicket off Smith slashing loosely, for 22. Surrey 307-4

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    More fantastic entertainment here at Guildford. Pietersen is now 149 not out, having hit poor Kerrigan for two more sixes and also Dilscooped - or should that be KP-scooped? - and switch hit him for further fours. Surrey 300-3, with Davies settling in on 21

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  • TEA - Surrey v Lancashire
    Surrey 241-3, from 53 overs. Pietersen 110 not out, Davies 3 not out.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Lancashire
    De Bruyn out for 94, from 159 balls, with 13x4. A fine innings, ended when he missed a sweep at Kerrigan and was sent on his way lbw by umpire Peter Hartley. Surrey 230-3, with Steven Davies joining KP

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    Pietersen hundred, reached with a pulled six over mid wicket off the suffering Kerrigan (his third maximum), has come up from 93 balls, also featuring 13 fours. Imperious stuff. And De Bruyn hasn't been bad, either. He's on 93, with Surrey now 229-2

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Surrey now 206-2 with Pietersen 84 not out and De Bruyn on 88. After a threat of rain, the sun is trying to peep through the clouds and the crowd are thoroughly enjoying the cricket. KP has just on driven Shahzad with dismissive power for his 13th four

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  • Gloucestershire v Essex
    Despite warm sunshine, pleasant breeze and no rainfall, play has been called off for the day following the umpires 3.00 p.m. inspection because of wet outfield. The news was greeted with little surprise from the handful of spectators present.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    The Pietersen-De Bruyn partnership has now reached 116, with KP on 70 and De Bruyn on 66. De Bruyn's fifty, reached with a square cut four off Chapple, took 89 balls, then brought a stream of fine strokes while KP has again treated Shahzad harshly with 2x4

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    Fifty for Kevin Pietersen - from just 42 balls, with a six and seven fours. The seventh four, swept off Kerrigan, took KP to his fifty, and warm applause from a rapt crowd

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Tremendous entertainment already since lunch - or the 1.45pm restart following a light shower - with KP taking the attack to Shahzad and then hitting Kerrigan for a straight six and four through extra cover in another over costing 15. Surrey 88-2, KP 35

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  • LUNCH - Surrey v Lancashire
    Surrey are 53-2 at the interval, from 18 overs, with Pietersen on 4 and Zander de Bruyn on 23. We might get a few more people coming in at the gate during lunch, too, with KP in.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Lancashire
    Kevin Pietersen is in at Guildford, with Zafar Ansari the second Surrey wicket to fall just three minutes before lunch. Ansari, on 21, edged Ajmal Shahzad to second slip to leave Lancs 49-2 but KP was away third ball with a three to third man off Shahzad

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Lancashire
    Rory Burns, shouldering arms, has lost his off stump to the first ball of Surrey's first innings - from Glen Chapple. Zander de Bruyn, though, is off the mark with a four to mid wicket. Surrey 4-1

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Lancashire have declared their first innings! Thirty-seven minutes into day three, and after Croft and Shahzad added 60 runs - 50 of them by Croft - Lancashire have called at halt at 485-7. Croft finishes 154 not out.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    Steven Croft, who guided the first ball of the day from Stuart Meaker behind point for four, and then hoicked Jon Lewis for six, has now added two more boundaries to third man off each bowler to go past his previous career-best score of 122. Lancs 449-7

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    The sun's out at Guildford, so we shall be starting on time. There has been no word of a Lancashire declaration as of yet, so they should resume their first innings on 425-7. 

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  • Close Of Play - Surrey v Lancashire
    Off for the day, with rain still falling and no sign of any let-up. Lancs 425-7, with Croft 104 not out and Ajmal Shahzad on 2. A total of 49 overs lost today.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Rain stopped play at 3pm. Lancashire are 425-7, with Croft on 104 and Ajmal Shahzad on 2. Weather looks like it is closing in, sadly.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Lancashire
    Chapple goes for 46 at Guildford. Having batted 83 balls for his part in a seventh-wicket stand of 121, Chapple plays across the line against Jonathan Lewis to go leg before and leave Lancashire on 419 for seven.   

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    Century for Croft. Burly right-hander Steven Croft becomes Lancashire's second century-maker of game after a crisp off-drive for four against Stuart Meaker. He reached three figures from 160 balls and with 12 boundaries and follows in the footsteps of Paul Horton who made a ton yesterday.    

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    400 up and a century stand. Croft and Chapple have re-asserted Lancashire's dominance with a century stand for the seventh wicket in only 23.1 overs. Surrey are floundering when it comes to fresh ideas and are struggling for a breakthrough.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    We've just had 15 off the first over after lunch, including three boundaries. Two to Chapple and one to Croft. 375-6 in the 113th now. 

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  • LUNCH - Surrey v Lancashire
    Lancashire go in on 356 for six after 111 overs. Steven Croft has 60, Glen Chapple 28, this after Surrey had bagged three wickets earlier in the opening session of day two. 

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    50 Steven Croft. The burly right-hander glanced a Stuart Meaker full-toss to the ropes at fine leg for the seventh boundary of his 94-ball half-century.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    The first six of the game at Guildford, 100 minutes into the second day and in the 101st over of their innings. Glen Chapple gave a short one from Stuart Meaker the 'kitchen sink' and the ball landed in the green seats on the Woodbridge Road side of the ground.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Lancashire
    Tom Smith is defeated by a superb throw and is run out for seven. Making his first Championship appearance since May 5, the left-hander drove toward wide mid-off and set off for a single, but Zander de Bruyn swooped and threw down middle stump to defeat Smith's abortive dive.  Gareth Cross has also just departed for 13. His short-arm pull against Stuart Meaker picked out Zafar Ansari at square leg to make it 298-6.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Having made the breakthrough, Murali Kartik has been hauled off by Surrey's acting captain Gareth Batty, who has taken the new ball and given it to Chris Tremlett with the Lancashire score on 259 for four.

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Lancashire
    Surrey's tactic of not taking the new ball has paid dividends in that Murali Kartik has struck to dismiss dangerman Ashwell Prince. Looking to loft a straight drive, the left-hander was beaten by flights and turn and dragged the shot horribly to deep mid-wicket where Zander de Bruyn took a comfortable catch. Lancs 252-4.

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    Lancashire have posted 250 and with it their second batting bonus point for Lancashire. Surrey have yet to take the new ball and Murali Kartik has opened the bowling at the Pavilion End at Woodbridge Road.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    A beautiful sunny morning in Guildford where Lancashire, resuming on 245 for three, will look forward to batting in even better conditions at Woodbridge Road. Ashwell Prince, the South Africa Test bat, will re-start his innings on 32 but, if truth be told, the majority of the crowd are here to watch another South African bat - namely Surrey's Kevin Pietersen.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Glorious morning at Guildford, so we're set for a start on time. Lancashire will resume on 245-3. 

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  • FICA supports legal action over unpaid BPL fees
    By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
    Worcestershire batsman Alexei Kervezee, Northamptonshire wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien and Kent’s former Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood are among overseas players allegedly still owed money by

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  • Close Of Play - Surrey v Lancashire
    Lancs 245-3 from 81 overs. Prince 32, and Croft 5, and Glen Chapple's team will be highly satisfied with their day's work

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Lancashire
    Paul Horton's excellent innings of 110 has been ended by Chris Tremlett, who won reward at last for some probing bowling by forcing an edge that was smartly held by Gareth Batty at first slip, to his left. Lancs 233-3.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Back on again here at 5.20pm, with the sun now out and 17 overs remaining to be bowled. Remarkably, we will lose only 18 overs in the day if there is no more interruptions - it seems like a lot more!

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    A one-ball session here at Guildford. The players came back post-tea after a 15 minute break for rain, Ashwell Prince blocked the final delivery of the 61st over from Gareth Batty, and off they trooped again for bad light with the visitors sitting pretty on 202 for two. With lightning and rain threatening, Paul Horton, unbeaten on 93, may yet have to wait until Thursday for his hundred.

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Play resumed at 4.05pm, after the rain passed through, but just 15 minutes more were possible before more rain drove the players off again. Lancs have moved on to 200 for 2, with Horton now on 93 and Prince on 19

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Lancashire
    Brown is caught at the wicket off Meaker, for 49, ending a second wicket stand with Horton worth 122 in 36 overs. Surrey needed that. Lancs 169-2

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  • TEA - Surrey v Lancashire
    Tea is being taken with rain falling quite heavily at Woodbridge Road. The covers are on and we may not see too much more today. Lancs, however, are sitting pretty at 188-2 with Horton on 85 not out and Ashwell Prince on 15

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  • Landmark - Surrey v Lancashire
    100 stand for Horton and Brown as Lancashire continue to make good progress in the Guildford sunshine. A good toss to lose.... Lancs 146-1, Horton 65, Brown 45

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Surrey's prolifigacy in the field has continued after lunch, with Horton put down on 55 by Kartik at second slip off the unfortunate Tremlett. Lancs are now 134-1 with Horton on 61 and Brown on 38

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  • LUNCH - Surrey v Lancashire
    A sobering morning for Surrey included Brown, on 30, being dropped by Gareth Batty at first slip off Chris Tremlett from the last ball of the penultimate over. At lunch Lancs are 112-1 from 30 overs, with Horton 50* and Brown 30*

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Surrey finally made the breakthrough when Moore was lbw for 24 to a Stuart Meaker inswinger, at 47, in the 14th over. Since then, however, Paul Horton and Karl Brown have taken Lancs on to 73-1 without undue alarm

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  • Surrey v Lancashire
    Fifty minutes played, and Lancs are 46-0, with Stephen Moore 23 and Paul Horton 17. Not what Surrey would have envisaged when they inserted. Murali Kartik's left-arm spin is now into the attack.

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  • Team News - Surrey v Lancashire
    Surrey: Roy, Davies, De Bruyn, Pietersen, Burns, Ansari, Batty, Meaker, Kartik, Lewis, Tremlett
    Lancashire: Horton, Moore, Brown, Prince, Croft, Smith, Cross, Chapple, Shahzad, Hogg, Kerrigan

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  • Surrey won the toss - Surrey v Lancashire
    Dry here at Guildford, but dark clouds surround Woodbridge Road so there can be no promises...
    Surrey have won the toss and have asked Lancashire to bat

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  • Cricket Diary: More short stuff for Bairstow
    By Richard Gibson
    England have publicly dismissed Jonny Bairstow’s troubles against the short stuff sent down by West Indies as ‘just a few good balls’ but it is a weakness that they will have been privately concerned about

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  • Kerrigan primed for KP, quips Smith
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire will be ready and waiting for Kevin Pietersen when he strides to the crease for Surrey in Wednesday’s LV= County Championship match at Guildford.

    10/07/2012 (314 days old) | Read more
  • Soggy FLt20: a horror story
    By Andrew Hignell
    Today, on the morning after the completion of the Friends Life t20 group stage, TheCricketer.com can reveal the full horror of the disruption caused by bad weather to

    09/07/2012 (315 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Durham v Lancashire
    TIE. Lancashire stopped Durham getting six off the last over as Paul Horton runs out Gareth Breese with the last ball of the match. Both sides out of this season's FLt20, however. 

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Durham v Lancashire
    Durham need 27 off three overs, they are 107-5. 

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire, and most likely Durham too, are out of the FLt20 after Essex v Hampshire is washed out. Durham 84-3 after 13.4 overs. 

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Ben Stokes has just hit Stephen Parry for a huge six over mid-wicket, but falls trying to repeat the dose, caught at long-on. 67-2 after 11.1 now.

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Durham v Lancashire
    Durham have reached the halfway stage of their innings at 56-1. They need another 78 off 60 balls, and are actually behind on DL as we stand. 

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Durham v Lancashire
    If Hampshire v Essex is a No Result, we think Durham (36-1 after 6.4) will need 134 in around 16 overs to qualify. 

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Durham v Lancashire
    Durham are 29-1 after five overs having lost Herschelle Gibbs lbw to Glen Chapple. 

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Durham v Lancashire
    Correction: Lancashire 133-8

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  • Interval - Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire closed on 131-8, Gareth Cross making 26. There were two wickets each for spinners Breese and Borthwick, who conceded only 34 in eight over between them

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire 74-2 after ten. Smith was lbw for 29, trying to sweep a googly from Borthwick.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire 40-1 after six overs. Moore made 13 before losing his leg stump when trying to slog Rushworth over mid-wicket

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Durham v Lancashire
    Durham: Mustard, Gibbs, Stokes, Myburgh, Benkenstein, Muchall, Borthwick, Breese, Plunkett, Rushworth, Onions. Lancashire: Moore, Smith, Croft, Brown, Cross, Horton, Arafat, Shahzad, Chapple, Parry, Keedy

    08/07/2012 (316 days old) | Read more
  • Time to end the Twenty20 debate
    By Mark Baldwin
    There is only one way to solve the debate about whether a dedicated mid-season slot or a season-long tournament is the best way forward for English cricket's ten-year-old Twenty20 Cup

    07/07/2012 (317 days old) | Read more
  • Davies pushing for Lancashire place
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Academy director John Stanworth believes wicketkeeper Alex Davies, called up to the England Under-19s World Cup squad earlier today, is a “strong contender” for first-team cricket at Lancashire

    06/07/2012 (317 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Yorkshire
    Match abandoned. To qualify for the quarter-finals, Lancashire need to win their last match against Durham and hope that other results go their way. Yorkshire maintain their two-point lead at the top of the North Division with one match left (Derbyshire).

    06/07/2012 (318 days old) | Read more
  • England Under-19 World Cup squad named
    By Paul Bolton
    Six Midlands youngsters have been included in the England Under-19 squad for the ICC Under 19 World Cup which will be played in Australia next month

    06/07/2012 (318 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Notts win after losing two wickets and with two balls to spare. They go top of the table on run-rate, while Lancashire need to win their last two to qualify. 

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    18 off Yasir Arafat leaves Notts needing 15 off two overs 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Play is set for a resumption. Notts, who are 7-0 after one, are chasing a target of 49 off five overs. That's 42 more off four. 

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    We're off for rain, Notts are 7-0 after one. 

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  • Interval - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire finish with 178-4 thanks to 80 from Stephen Moore, 56 for Tom Smith and Steven Croft's 30 not out off 14 balls. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Stephen Moore is 72 not out, Lancs 141-1 after 16.

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Fifty for Stephen Moore off 41 balls after surviving a missed stumping on 47, 118-0 in 14th. Lancashire's highest ever opening stand in T20 between him and Tom Smith. 

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Fifty for Tom Smith off 39 balls as Lancashire pass 100 in the 13th over. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire are 76-0 after 10, Smith 41 and Moore 29. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Players on way back out again now as covers are coming off. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Rain has taken the players off at 60-0 after 8.1 overs. Tom Smith 34 and Stephen Moore 20. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Tom Smith is currently 29 not out off 21 balls having been dropped on eight by England's man of the T20 moment Alex Hales at mid-on, a reasonably simple catch above his head as he back-pedalled. 46-0 in the sixth. 

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Good start in tough conditions for Lancashire, who have been boosted by Tom Smith's 20 not out. They are 31-0 after four and there's more fine rain around. 

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    We're set for a start now. Rain has eased, if not stopped. Covers coming off and lights are on. 

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    The covers are back on at Trent Bridge due to pretty heavy rain. 

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    NOTTS: Lumb, Hales, Wessels, Voges, Patel, Taylor, Read, Mullaney, Pattinson, Gurney, Carter. LANCS: Moore, Smith, Croft, Brown, Horton, Cross, Arafat, Shahzad, Newby, Parry, Keedy.

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Nottinghanshire won the toss - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Adam Voges has decided to have a bowl, not surprisingly. Steven Croft will captain Lancs due to a side strain for Glen Chapple. 

    03/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Planned 6.45pm start with the contest still 20 overs per side. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Nothing confirmed yet, but we will almost certainly have a delayed start at Trent Bridge due to rain. It's coming down quite hard as we speak. The match between these two was washed out earlier the competition. We are due to get underway at 6.10pm. 

    03/07/2012 (321 days old) | Read more
  • Foster first keeper to win monthly FTI MVP award
    James Foster has capped a series of impressive displays to become the first wicketkeeper to win the monthly award for the FTI Most Valuable Player.

    02/07/2012 (322 days old) | Read more
  • Cricket Diary: Yorkshire's T20 poser
    By Richard Gibson
    Yorkshire face the prospect of being without both their overseas stars if they extend their impressive Twenty20 Cup form beyond the group stages.

    02/07/2012 (322 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Derbyshire win by three wickets with seven balls to spare. Lancashire fought hard to give them a fright, but it was all too late. Lancashire now may have to win their three remaining matches to qualify for the last eight. This was Derbyshire's second win

    01/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Derbyshire, at 117-5 after 18, need six runs from two overs. 

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  • Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Gary Keedy has just got Wes Durston stumped for 56 off 30 balls and Usman Khawaja bowled for 15, leaving the score at 77-2 in the tenth. Too little, too late I would suspect. 

    01/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Derbyshire have raced out of the blocks by reaching 44-0 after five. Wes Durston hit Steven Croft for three sixes in four balls in the third over. 

    01/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Lancashire finish with 122-8. Rana Naved and Wes Durston finish with 3-20 and 2-16 respectively. 

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  • Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Lancashire are 93-4 after 16 overs. Spin is proving crucial to this clash at the moment with Chesney Hughes, Wes Durston and Tom Knight having all bowled so far. Durston has just finished with 2-16 from four overs. 

    01/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Lancashire are really up against it now having lost Tom Smith to Rana Naved and Karl Brown to Tom Knight. The Lightning are 60-3 after 10.2 overs and have a lot of work to do to get to a target they would be happy with. The pitch is slow mind you.

    01/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Lancashire are 37-1 after five overs having recovered from 1-1 after three balls when Wes Durston had Stephen Moore stumped. Steven Croft and Tom Smith are the men at the crease. 

    01/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Lancashire v Derbyshire
    LANCS: Moore, Smith, Brown, Croft, Horton, Cross, Arafat, Chapple, Parry, Newby, Keedy. DERBY: Khawaja, Durston, C Hughes, Madsen, Park, A Hughes, Clare, Knight, Naved, Poynton, Groenewald. 

    01/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Derbyshire won the toss - Lancashire v Derbyshire
    Wayne Madsen has decided to have a bowl first. 

    01/07/2012 (323 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Yorkshire win their fifth match by 19 runs to retain top spot in the North Division.

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire need 33 off two overs to win this. 

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire, 123-2 after 15, need 58 off 30 balls. Croft and Brown have added 78 and counting for the third wicket. 

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire are 80-2 after 10 overs, needing 100 to win. Brown and Croft together in very gloomy conditions. This would be some win if they managed it. 

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire 37-1 after five, Stephen Moore bowled round his legs by Mitchell Starc. The Lightning have just got going by taking 19 off the most recent over bowled by Joe Root, who took the new ball. 

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Some amazing hitting from David Miller and Gary Ballance has taken Yorkshire to 180-6 from their position of 86-4 after 13. Miller finished with 54, Ballance 42 as 94 came from last seven overs. 

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Yorkshire 108-4 after 15 overs with David Miller on 24 and Gary Ballance on 8. Oliver Newby has just bowled his first over in T20 cricket since June 29, 2007. It cost nine. He's out of the attack. On that basis we should see him again on June 29, 2017.

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow gone to Glen Chapple and Gary Keedy, and Yorkshire are 65-3 after 10. Phil Jaques is 27 not out and David Miller 3. Keedy actually struck with his first ball to get Bairstow caught at long-off. 

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Yorkshire are 35-1 after five. Yasir Arafat had Adam Lyth superbly caught by diving Tom Smith at mid-on to clinch his 100th wicket in English T20 cricket. He's the first to achieve that feat. Root and Jaques in now.  

    29/06/2012 (324 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Yorkshire v Lancashire
    YORKS: Lyth, Jaques, Root, Bairstow, Miller, Ballance, Pyrah, Rashid, Rafiq, Starc, Ashraf. LANCS: Moore, Smith, Croft, Brown, Horton, Cross, Chapple, Newby, Parry, Keedy, Arafat.

    29/06/2012 (325 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire won the toss - Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Lancs win toss and field. 

    29/06/2012 (325 days old) | Read more
  • Yorkshire v Lancashire
    Ajmal Shahzad can't play tonight. But, after missing the early stages of Lancashire's Twenty20 campaign with an intercostal injury, he has chosen a Headingley practice strip as the venue to step up his recovery by bowling for first time in three weeks.

    29/06/2012 (325 days old) | Read more
  • Record-breaker Arafat has name trouble at Lancs
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Yasir Arafat, Lancashire’s specialist overseas Twenty20 signing, has revealed one of the perils of playing 20-over cricket for nine different domestic teams during his career and four in 2012 alone.

    27/06/2012 (327 days old) | Read more
  • Result - Lancashire v Durham
    Lancashire cantered home by eight wickets with six overs to spare, Croft unbeaten on 65 off 44 balls, with four sixes. Smith holed out for 40 with six runs needed.

    25/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    Lancashire 88-1 after ten overs, Croft has 50 from 34 balls.

    25/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    Lancashire 53-1 after six with Croft on 39 from 22 balls. He took 23 off Onions' third over, including sixes over long-on and backward square leg. Moore is the man out. He cut Claydon's first ball for six and hit the next to deep square leg.

    25/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Lancashire v Durham
    Durham all out for 121 in 19.2 overs. Only Breese, with 33 off 18 balls, made any impact. He took 14 off one over from Keedy but the left-arm spinner still finished with 4-0-25-4.

    25/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    Durham 56-4 after ten overs. Mustard was run out for 22 when a reverse sweep went straight to Arafat and Benkenstein was bowled, playing back defensively to Keedy's second ball

    25/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Durham
    Durham 30-2 after six overs. Gibbs skied a pull off Arafat to mid-on to depart for six and Stokes hit his wicket in playing a forcing back foot shot to mid-wicket off Chapple.

    25/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Lancashire v Durham
    Lancashire: Moore, Smith, Croft, Brown, Horton, Cross, Chapple, Procter, Parry, Keedy, Arafat. Durham: Mustard, Gibbs, Stokes, Myburgh, Benkenstein, Muchall, Breese, Plunkett, Borthwick, Claydon, Onions

    25/06/2012 (328 days old) | Read more
  • Durham won the toss - Lancashire v Durham
    Durham won toss and bat

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  • Sessay CC V Studley Royal CC – It's game on
    The regional final of the Yorkshire Tea Village Cup between Sessay and Studley Royal, which has twice been postponed, will be played to a conclusion on Tuesday night

    25/06/2012 (329 days old) | Read more
  • Uneven pattern to t20 weather
    By Andrew Hignell
    Being  - roughly - at the halfway point in the group stage of the Friends Life t20 competition, it is an appropriate time to see how the weather has been affecting

    25/06/2012 (329 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Leicestershire
    Lancashire win by eight wickets with an over to spare to inflict a fourth successive North Division defeat on the Foxes. Lancashire have won two from three. 

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Leicestershire
    Lancashire are cruising now at 175-2 after 18 overs. They need just five runs from two overs. Steven Croft and Karl Brown have allayed any fears with 38 and 37 not out respectively. 

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Leicestershire
    Lancashire, at 105-1 after 12, need 75 off the last eight with Tom Smith (34) and Steven Croft (13) together. Claude Henderson bowled Stephen Moore for 54 off 32 balls. It's a nipper. 

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Lancashire v Leicestershire
    Stephen Moore's stunning one-day form continues. He has 51 off 28 balls now, and he has scored six fifties in eight matches in both limited overs comps this season. Lancashire 70-0 after 6.5

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Leicestershire
    Lancashire are 47-0 after five. Their chase has just sparked into life with 19 off Matthew Hoggard in the fifth, including two mid-wicket sixes for Tom Smith. 

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Lancashire v Leicestershire
    The Foxes finish with an imposing 179-4 with Matt Boyce 63 not out off 38 balls. He and Wayne White (19 off nine balls) shared 58 off just 21 balls for the fifth wicket. How quickly things can change in Twenty20. 

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Leicestershire
    After being 29-3 in the sixth over, Leicestershire are now 153-4 with eight balls of their innings left. Abdul Razzaq made 61 off 51 and Matt Boyce, with whom he shared 92, is still there on 43 off 33. 

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Leicestershire
    I said that as long as Razzaq stayed at the crease, Leicester had a chance. So it is proving. They are far from out of the woods yet, but he and Matt Boyce have shared 62 in eight and a half overs to take the score to 91-3 in the 14th. Razzaq is 41 no.

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Leicestershire
    Glen Chapple, Lancashire's captain, has just returned figures of 2-10 from four overs as the Foxes reach 43-3 early in the ninth over. 

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Lancashire v Leicestershire
    The Foxes, yet again, are on the rack. After three defeats in three, they are 31-3 after the first six overs. Glen Chapple has taken two wickets and Yasir Arafat one. However, there is still hope for them while Abdul Razzaq remains at the crease.  

    20/06/2012 (333 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire won the toss - Lancashire v Leicestershire
    CORRECTION: Leicestershire have won the toss and are batting. 

    20/06/2012 (334 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Lancashire v Leicestershire
    LANCS: Smith, Moore, Horton, Brown, Croft, Arafat, Procter, Cross, Chapple, Parry, Keedy. LEICS: Cobb, Smith, Mommsen, Sarwan, Razzaq, Boyce, Taylor, White, Eckersley, Henderson, Hoggard.

    20/06/2012 (334 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire won the toss - Lancashire v Leicestershire
    Matthew Hoggard has elected to have a bowl first. 

    20/06/2012 (334 days old) | Read more
  • Shahzad injury blow for Lancashire
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Ajmal Shahzad has been ruled out of Lancashire’s next two Friends Life t20 matches after a scan revealed an intercostal injury.

    19/06/2012 (335 days old) | Read more
  • Surrey's Tom Maynard dies aged 23
    The Surrey batsman, Tom Maynard, has died at the age of 23 after an incident at Wimbledon Park station on Monday.

    18/06/2012 (336 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire win by 11 runs as the hosts finish on 143-8. They bounce back from Thursday's defeat at Derby thanks to 58 from Stephen Moore and two wickets for Glen Chapple, Yasir Arafat and Stephen Parry. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    The equation is 28 off two overs with Razzaq and Wayne White together. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Leicester, 91-5 after 14, need 64 off six overs. Abdul Razzaq is the key. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Leicester behind the eight ball now as Stephen Parry takes two wickets in the ninth over, Josh Cobb caught at long-on and Greg Smith out hit wicket. We think he trod on his stumps as he set off for a run. Leicester now 66-4 in the 10th. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Leicestershire are 36-2 after six with wickets for Glen Chapple and Yasir Arafat. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire finish with a very competitive 154-6. Yasir Arafat added an important late 20, although it could have been far better for the Lightning after they had been 106-2 after 12.5 overs. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire, having lost Stephen Moore and Karl Brown to Wayne White for 58 and 24 respectively, will be satisfied with their position of 118-4 after 15. Paul Horton and Gareth Cross are in the early stages of their innings. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    50 for Stephen Moore off 38 balls. Lancashire now 97-2 in the 12th. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Lancashire back on track thanks to Stephen Moore and Karl Brown, who have taken the score to 78-2 after ten overs. Moore recently hit Rob Taylor for six wide of long-on.

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Good start for the Foxes thanks to wickets for Matthew Hoggard and Rob Taylor. Tom Smith and Steven Croft the men out as the Red Rose reach 31-2 after 5. The dark clouds seemed to have slipped by, thankfully. 

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    LEICS: Cobb, Sarwan, du Toit, Boyce, Smith, White, Razzaq, Eckersley, Taylor, Henderson, Hoggard. LANCS: Moore, Smith, Brown, Croft, Horton, Cross, Arafat, Procter, Chapple, Parry, Keedy.

    15/06/2012 (338 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire won the toss - Leicestershire v Lancashire
    Foxes skipper Matthew Hoggard has invited the Lightning, captained by Glen Chapple, to have a bat first. 

    15/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Leicestershire v Lancashire
    We have news of a 6pm start at Grace Road after afternoon showers. 

    15/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Derbyshire v Lancashire
    It's all over. The umpires have made the only decision open to them and have called it off - Derbys have beaten Lancs by 17 runs on the D/L. Mahmood went for 17 off his last over with six in wides and three in no-balls with three balls remaining.

    14/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Derbyshire v Lancashire
    They are off for rain and, assuming they will not be able to get back on, Derbyshire will have won on the D/L. They are 118-5 after 11.3 overs and that is 17 ahead of where they need to be. All that we are waiting for is the formality of the abandonment.

    14/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Derbyshire v Lancashire
    10 overs into their reply and Derbyshire are 88-5 after fiery but too brief stays from Durston (31) and Whiteley (24). It's heading for a close finish.

    14/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Interval - Derbyshire v Lancashire
    Lancs finish on 168-6, with Croft the top scorer on 46 - caught at extra cover the ball after being hit on the head by a Turner short ball. Rana finished with 0-56 in his four overs, which is not quite what Derbys had in mind from their t20 specialist.

    14/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Derbyshire v Lancashire
    Halfway stage of the Lancs innings and they are going nicely. Moore made 34 off 21 balls before being caught behind off Groenewald, who has taken both wickets so far and bowled through for 2-34. Rana's one over so far went for 21 and it's 81-2.

    14/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Team News - Derbyshire v Lancashire
    Derbyshire win the toss and elect to field, with the threat of rain looming and very few people on the ground approaching start time. Usman Khawaja makes his return for Derbys, while Shahzad is out for Lancs with a stomach strain and Chapple is left out.

    14/06/2012 (339 days old) | Read more
  • Mahmood unsure of his Lancs future
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Sajid Mahmood is unsure whether his long-term future lies with Lancashire after a poor start to 2012 has left him on the sidelines for

    12/06/2012 (342 days old) | Read more
  • Bremner to head up Twenty20 fun
    By Paul Bolton
    This season’s Friends Life t20 really will be ‘hit and giggle cricket’ following the decision of the England and Wales Cricket Board to hire a team of comedians, headed by Rory Bremner, to provide

    11/06/2012 (342 days old) | Read more
  • Close Of Play - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Dawid Malan bowls Stephen Parry to complete a 167-run win for impressive Middlesex. They have bowled Lancashire out for 183 in reply to 350-6. Three wickets each for Tom Smith and Steven Crook. 

    10/06/2012 (343 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Little consolation for Lancashire, they have avoided their heaviest ever one-day defeat. But Simon Kerrigan has just holed out to long-on as Joe Denly strikes. 180-9. 

    10/06/2012 (343 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Paul Horton falls for 49, run out by Steven Crook's direct hit from extra cover. Lancashire, who need 179 to avoid heaviest ever List A defeat, are 134-7. 

    10/06/2012 (343 days old) | Read more
  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Ajmal Shahzad, who recently reverse swept Tom Smith for six, and Paul Horton have added 50 unbroken for the sixth wicket to delay the inevitable. Lancashire are 105-5. Hang on, Shahzad has gone for 29, caught and bowled by Smith. 105-6

    10/06/2012 (343 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Tom Smith traps Gareth Cross lbw for 12 as Lancashire slip to 55-5. For the record they still need 295. 

    10/06/2012 (344 days old) | Read more
  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Having lost Steven Croft caught behind recently, Lancashire have lost Ashwell Prince caught at point to hand Steven Crook a second wicket. 22-3.  

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    I think we can safely say this is game over. Stephen Moore has just flashed at one outside off-stump from Toby Roland-Jones and Dawid Malan has stuck out a left paw and clung on at first slip. Lancashire 11-1 in the third. 

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  • Interval - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex finish with 350-6 from their 40 overs. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Morgan has gone for 116 off 54 balls, finding Steven Croft at deep mid-wicket to hand Keedy his fifth. 340-6 in the 39th. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Eoin Morgan smashes the record for the fastest ton of the season by 17 balls. He's reached three figures off just 49 balls with six fours and nine sixes. He has since clobbered his tenth six to take Middlesex score to 331-5 in the 38th. Keedy has 4 wkts

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Gareth Berg has been stumped by Gareth Cross to hand Keedy his second wicket in the over, but not before the right-hander swept a six to bring up Middlesex's 300. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Paul Stirling has gone for a pedestrian 119 off 99 balls (well it is in light of where Eoin Morgan stands, 84 not out off 39 balls). He has been caught at square-leg by Stephen Parry off Gary Keedy. They shared 126 in 10.5 overs for third wicket. 295-3 (35th).

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Eoin Morgan has just brought up a 27-ball 50 with a swept six off Stephen Parry before playing exactly same shot the next ball and again the ball after, although that went finer for four. Middlesex are 268-2 after 32 overs. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Paul Stirling has just brought up his fifth one-day century off 84 balls with 11 fours and five sixes. He has just put on 49 off the four overs of batting power play with Eoin Morgan (38 no) to take Middlesex to 228-2 after 29.

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Joe Denly has gone for 58 off 57 balls. He has tried to smite Gary Keedy over cover and sliced him to Ashwell Prince at backward point. Stand of 142 in 20 overs between him and Paul Stirling, who is still there on 91. Middlesex 168-2 in the 23rd.

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    50 for Joe Denly now off 48 balls with six fours and one six. Middlesex 138-1 after 19. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Belligerent 50 for Paul Stirling off 43 balls with five fours and two sixes. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex are 106-1 after 14 and a half overs. Their start has been aided by some loose Lancashire bowling and a short boundary Mound Stand side. Paul Stirling and Joe Denly are both in the forties. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Joe Denly has just scattered the members on the top tier of the pavilion with a huge straight six. 88-1 in the 12th. 

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  • Middlesex v Lancashire
    Middlesex reach the 10-over mark at an extremely healthy 72-1, which has included two pulled sixes for Paul Stirling off Ajmal Shahzad and Sajid Mahmood. 

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  • Landmark - Middlesex v Lancashire
    53-1 up for Middlesex in the seventh. 

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  • WICKET - Middlesex v Lancashire
    After a fluent start from the Panthers, the Lightning break through. Ajmal Shahzad gets Dawid Malan caught behind for 12 as he drives loosely, and it's 26-1 in the fourth. 

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  • Team News - Middlesex v Lancashire
    MIDDLESEX: Malan, Denly, Stirling, Morgan, Dexter, Rogers, Berg, Simpson, Smith, Crook, Roland-Jones. LANCASHIRE: Moore, Prince, Croft, Brown, Horton, Cross, Shahzad, Mahmood, Parry, Keedy, Kerrigan.

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Middlesex v Lancashire
    Steven Croft has elected to have a bowl first. 

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  • Statistics reveal huge extent of county rain disruption
    By Andrew Hignell
    The 2012 season could prove to be one of the dampest of recent times if the level of weather disruption experienced across the country during the past few days continues

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  • Close Of Play - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    STUMPS - With Notts batting through the final few overs to close on 293-7 they pick up a total of six points to nip back ahead of Warwicks at the head of the table. Seven points for Lancs. A thrilling days play ends all-square.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    ADAMS GONE FIRST BALL - Andre Adams batting with Alex Hales as his runner hoists his firts ball down the throat of Glenn Chapple at long off. Two in two for Shahzad, Notts now 255-7 and Lancs definitely favourites.

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    TAYLOR GOES - Ajmal Shahzad gets his man - Taylor out lbw for 67 - Lancs now favourites? Notts are 255-6, lovely innings from Taylor though.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    The Notts run chase is very much in full swing. Chasing 351 they are on 253-5, needing 98 from the last 15 overs. James Taylor on 67 Chris Read on 38. Feeling growing that this may be on, although one wicket changes everything.

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    TAYLOR 50 - James Taylor's half century from 129 balls 3x4 Notts 207-5

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    VOGES OUT - Rash decision to charge Simon Kerrigan has cost Adam Voges his wicket - stumped by yards and out for 55. Notts 194-5

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  • TEA - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    A very good session for the hosts, who have reached 177-4 from 58 overs thanks to James Taylor's 37 and 48 for Adam Voges. Their don't seem to be too many demons in the track. 174 needed from 32. 

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    50 stand between Voges and Taylor take the score at 145-4. after 48. 206 to win from 42 for Notts. Six wickets for Lancashire. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    This partnership between James Taylor and Adam Voges is the key one for Notts. They have advanced the score from 95-4 to 127-4, steadying the ship. If Lancashire can break it before tea, they will be supremely confident of winning the match. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Michael Lumb is on his way, trapped lbw by Glen Chapple for 35. Notts 95-4 and up against it. 

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  • LUNCH - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Notts head into the break at 90-3 from 25 overs in their pursuit of 351 with Michael Lumb on 33 and James Taylor on three. Glen Chapple, Kyle Hogg and Simon Kerrigan with the wickets for the visitors. This is beautifully poised. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Samit Patel has fallen victim to a fine bowling change. Simon Kerrigan has replaced Luke Procter at the Pavilion End, and he has struck with only his fourth ball. Patel caught by Paul Horton at slip, diving to his right. Notts 87-3. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Notts going ok at the moment thanks to Michael Lumb and Samit Patel. They have added 50 for the third wicket in just 47 balls. Notts 77-2 in the 21st. 

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Notts now 56-2 in the 18th, make that 60 with a Lumb edge. Luke Procter in his first over. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Riki Wessels trapped lbw by Kyle Hogg for 15, 23-2 in the 12th. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Glen Chapple strikes after four balls to get Alex Hales caught behind with an out swinger, Notts 1-1 

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  • Counties in line for £1 million grants
    By Paul Bolton
    Counties are in line for a cash injection of £1 million each to improve their facilities from the England and Wales Cricket Board’s new £130 million broadcasting deal with ESPN

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    With a couple of forfeits, Notts will require 351 from 90 overs to win this match. Lancashire declare their first innings on 350-9. Hogg 61 not out and Kerrigan 34 not out. 

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    50 for Kyle Hogg. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    After Paul Franks finishes off the over, James Taylor comes on to bowl for Notts to begin the day. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Play is set to start on time at Trent Bridge. Hopefully the skippers have set something up and we'll be in for an exciting day. 

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  • Close Of Play - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    STUMPS AT TRENT BRIDGE with Lancashire on 321-9, after last pair Kyle Hogg and Simon Kerrigan extended their partnership to an unbroken 70. Concerns are with Andre Adams, who went over on his ankle in the 12.5 overs of play that was possible.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Lancs 321-9 - more light drizzle and they go off again!

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Looks like they are going to start again - after a brief stoppage following the Adams injury. Lancs resuming on 303-9

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Half an hour of play which brought 31 runs has ended dramatically with an injury to Andre Adams, slipping over on his ankle as he ran in to bowl. The umpires perhaps concerned about the softness of the surface - have taken the players off. 303-9

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Yet another inspection has taken us a little closer to play at last. One or two areas that the groundstaff are currently working on but we'll be underway (no more rain permitting!) at 4.30.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    There seems to be air of inevitability about this. The umpires have said they'll come out and have another look at 3.45pm - the groundstaff, however, are of the firm opinion that the next band of heavy rain is due to hit us around 5pm.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    The umpires have wandered out for the twentieth time today (though this was the first without their brollies) and had a long chat to the groundstaff. Mopping up is underway, the players will have an early tea and and umps will look again at 3.15.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    There will be a further inspection at 2.30pm here. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    There will be a further inspection here at 2pm. The rain has stopped, but there is no movement from the ground staff. Don't hold your breath. 

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  • LUNCH - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    An early lunch has been called at Trent Bridge, 12.30pm. An inspection will take place after that if it's not raining. At the moment, it is. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    The chances of play look bleak at Trent Bridge. The rain is still coming down and there is loads of water on the covers.  

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  • Close Of Play - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    No real surprise but the umpires have saved us all a long and futile wait by calling it off for the day. Has rained steadily all afternoon and continues to pour down - Lancashire 272-9 in their first innings, Notts still to bat!

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    We're for rain with Lancashire at 272-9. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Play set for a swift resumption after lunch. No further time lost.  

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  • LUNCH - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Early lunch taken due to bad light (even though floodlights are on) with Lancashire at 260-9. They have added 57 for the loss of three wickets this morning. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Ajmal Shahzad is caught behind off Harry Gurney for 3, Lancashire 251-9. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Paul Franks bowls Chapple for 24 with one that shot through very low. Stumps everywhere, 247-8. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Andre Adams has five, and with it his 600th first-class wickets. He has just got Ashwell Prince caught at first slip by Alex Hales for a well made 80. Lancashire are 243-7. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire have moved on to 237-6 in the nine overs of the play this morning. Ashwell Prince is 74 and Glen Chapple, who recently played an audacious dab over the slip cordon for four off Andy Carter, is on 23. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Play has just started under lights at Trent Bridge. Cricket 1-0 Weather Forecasters. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Play will start at 11.40am with two overs lost in the day should there be no further rain. 

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  • Cricket Diary: Impi closure hits Collingwood and Wright
    By Richard Gibson
    New Age Impi have disbanded after just one season participating in South Africa’s domestic Twenty20 cricket, leaving captain Paul Collingwood and fellow England international Luke Wright seeking

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    There will be a delayed start at Trent Bridge, but maybe not for too long. The covers are coming off. 

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  • Close Of Play - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    STUMPS OFFICIALLY DRAWN - Rain forces an early conclusion to an otherwise entertaining day. Positive batting and the usual magic from Andre Adams, who was harshly treated early on but bounced back with four of the wickets to fall. Lancs 203-6 at stumps.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Only a matter of time before this is called off now. Raining very heavily, skies totally filled in all around - yet about twenty hardy souls keep the faith and sit in the New Stand - or are they waiting for lifts? No more play likely with Lancs 203-6.

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    RAIN STOPPED PLAY - The floodlights are on as a defence to the poor overhead conditions but unfortunately they don't give protection against the latest heavy shower to sweep across the ground. Looking very gloomy towards the Power Station. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    CROSS OUT - Fourth wicket of the day for Andre Adams as Gareth Cross finds James Taylor at deep square leg. Splendid innings comes to a rather untidy end and Lancs are 203-6

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Mopping up operation is now in full swing and the umpires have had a look with a view to starting again at 4.45pm if there's no more rain (and it would appear to be a 50/50 split on whether the next wave will hit us or not!). Lancs 185-5.

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  • TEA - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    I might be jumping the gun slightly, but we're off for rain now. Lancashire are 185-5 from 54.4 overs with Ashwell Prince on 58 and Gareth Cross on 22. We will almost certainly take an early tea. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Could be a big moment this. Ashwell Prince, on 51, has just been dropped at first slip by Alex Hales off Adams. It was low down but straight in. Should have been taken. Lancs 171-5 now in the 52nd. 

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    50 for Ashwell Prince off 107 balls. The South African has scored seven half-centuries in the Championship this summer, including one hundred. 156-5. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Adams has his third underneath nasty clouds. Luke Procter, tentatively driving, has been safely pushed by Samit Patel at third slip, 151-5. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire are 144-4 in the 44th over at Trent Bridge with Ashwell Prince five short of 44. As a press box colleague has just pointed out, it would be a heck of an effort to be 444-4 in the 44th. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Andy Carter gets his second wicket as Steven Croft gloves a lifter behind the stumps to Chris Read, who takes an easy catch. 129-4. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Rain has halted play for just a few minutes. As the players were getting to the pavilion, they were ordered to turn round again. Lancashire 105-3 after 32.2 overs.  

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  • LUNCH - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire are 104-3 after 31 overs with Ashwell Prince unbeaten on 18 and Steven Croft 19. A very entertaining session that I suspect neither side will be too disappointed with. Andre Adams with two wickets and Andy Carter one for Notts. 

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  • Landmark - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Lancashire bring up their 100 for the loss of three wickets as we approach lunch. I don't think they'll be too disappointed with this session after being inserted. 104-3 after 28. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Stephen Moore has just played on to Andre Adams for 24, leaving the visitors at 69-3 in the 19th. He is scoring runs for fun in the CB40, but can't seem to get going in the Championship. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Stephen Moore has just played on to Andre Adams for 24, leaving the visitors at 69-3 in the 19th. He is scoring runs for fun in the CB40, but can't seem to get going in the Championship. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    After hitting Andre Adams for three successive fours, Karl Brown perishes to a fine catch low down by Samit Patel at third slip. Brown goes for 34 off 24 balls. 64-2 in the 15th. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Andre Adams has entered the attack and is causing problems already. He has bowled a tighter line and Stephen Moore has just been dropped at 2nd slip by Voges high to his left. 24-1 in the 11th. I say a tighter line, he's just been hit for successive 4s. 

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  • WICKET - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Adam Voges pouches the catch at second slip as Paul Horton edges Andy Carter, leaving the visitors at 11-1 in the eighth. 

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  • Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Circumspect start from Lancashire in bowler-friendly conditions. Mind you, they should be used to this after the conditions they encountered at Durham last week. Notts opening pair Andrew Carter and Harry Gurney haven't probed enough, 10-0 in the sixth. 

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  • Team News - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    NOTTS: Hales, Wessels, Lumb, Patel, Taylor, Voges, Read, Franks, Adams, Gurney, Carter. LANCS: Horton, Moore, Brown, Prince, Croft, Procter, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Hogg, Kerrigan. 

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  • Nottinghamshire won the toss - Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
    Notts have won the toss and have decided to have a bowl at a sunny Trent Bridge. 

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Lancashire move up to second place in Group A having won three of their four matches. They are still some way behind Group A leaders Holland though, who have won five out of seven. 

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Apologies for late close of play at Old Trafford, but there's been a fire alarm in the media centre. Lancashire won by 12 runs on Duckworth Lewis as two breaks for rain led to them chasing 131 in 19 overs instead of 260. Stephen Moore finished 60 no. 

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Off for rain at OT. Lancashire are 69-1 after 11.4 overs. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    50 for Stephen Moore off 40 balls. It's his fourth in four CB40 matches this term. As I type, Ashwell Prince has been bowled by Moeen Ali to leave Lancashire at 66-1 in the tenth. The Lightning are ahead on Duckworth Lewis (it's raining in Didsbury!!).

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Stephen Moore and Ashwell Prince have made an impressive start to their pursuit of 260. The Lightning are 39-0 after six overs. 

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Hundred for Phil Hughes, his second in two matches for the Pears, but he went in the final over. Incredibly, amidst wifi problems at OT, there were four wickets in the last over bowled by Ajmal Shahzad. Three were his and a run out came too. Worcester finish with 259-9.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Daryl Mitchell holes out to Shahzad at third-man off Sajid Mahmood. 244-5. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    A couple of wickets to report as Worcestershire up the ante in search of quick runs. Gareth Andrew top-edged Gary Keedy to Gareth Cross behind the stumps and Ajmal Shahzad has just bowled James Cameron. 244-4 after 38. 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Vikram Solanki is bowled by Stephen Parry for a fine 121 from 107 balls, leaving Worcester at 212-2 in the 35th. Phil Hughes should also have been run out on 76, but the umpires did not refer it when it looked like Gary Keedy's hands knocked the bails off.

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Hundred up for Vikram Solanki, his first since September 2010. It's come off 96 balls, seven fours and three sixes. Worcestershire 188-1 after 32 overs with Phil Hughes also on 75. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    50 for Phil Hughes off 69 balls with three fours and a six. Worcs 144-1 in the 27th over. Solanki is on 87. The Pears are just ticking along at the moment without doing anything too expansive. 

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    50 for Vikram Solanki off 41 balls with three fours and three sixes. He has 51 out of Worcestershire's 65-1 in the 12th over. 

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  • Lancashire v Worcestershire
    A couple of sixes in recent overs for Vikram Solanki, both of them off Sajid Mahmood, have got Worcester moving. He emphatically pulled the first one over mid-wicket and not so emphatically pulled the second one, via a top edge, over long-leg. 36-1 in 8th 

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Opening bowlers Sajid Mahmood and Ajmal Shahzad have made an impressive start, which has included the wicket of Moeen Ali trapped lbw by the former for three. Phil Hughes is in now, and Worcester are 7-1 in the fourth.  

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  • Team News - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    LANCS: Moore, Horton, Brown, Prince, Croft(c), Newby, Cross(w), Shahzad, Mahmood, Parry, Keedy. WORCS: Ali, Solanki, Hughes, Mitchell(c), Andrew, Kervezee, Cameron, Scott(w), Choudhry, Lucas, Shantry.

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Lancashire v Worcestershire
    Lancashire's one-day skipper Steven Croft has elected to bowl first in front of the television cameras at Old Trafford. 

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  • First win could turn Lancashire's season around
    By Graham Hardcastle
    Lancashire believe they have finally turned the corner in the County Championship.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Durham have been deducted four points for a slow overrate. They have come away from this match with -1 points.

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  • Close Of Play - Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire win by two wickets with four balls to spare as Ajmal Shahzad hits Steve Harmison for four to long-on's left. I'll check on points situation and update in a bit due to Durham's overrate. Lancashire take 19 points from their first win of 2012.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire need eight off the last. Durham need two wickets.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire need 22 off three overs to win. Durham need two wickets. Oh crikey. Somebody has just thrown up the chance of a tie in the press box.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Onions running rings round Lancashire. Glen Chapple is caught behind. 168-8. 32 needed off 6.4

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Onions traps Gareth Cross lbw for 3. 161-7. This is fantastic entertainment. All three results still possible with 7.3 overs left.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Prince gone for 51 to Harrison, caught at first slip by Gordon Muchall as the South African tries to flay one through the off-side. Good sharp catch. 159-6. 41 off 8.

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  • Landmark - Durham v Lancashire
    Half-century for Ashwell Prince off 94 balls with three fours and one six, his sixth of the season in the Championship, including the 144 he got against Middlesex last week. 157-5 with nine left.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Luke Procter edges Jamie Harrison behind for 15 as Lancashire are reduced to 156-5, still 44 from their target with 10.3 left. That's the last thing they wanted with Graham Onions coming into the attack again shortly.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    With Onions out of the attack, things are looking considerably easier for the visitors, who have moved on to 140-4. They need 60 to win from 17.2 overs with Prince (39 no) and Luke Procter at the crease.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Graham Onions has finally been taken out of the attack by Phil Mustard after bowling his 19 overs unchanged - apart from tea today and close last night - from the Finchale End. He currently has figures of 19-5-38-4. Today, he has been brilliant for figures of 11-4-12-3. Ashwell Prince has just top-edged Harmison for six. 118-4 with 20.5 overs left.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Onions gets his fourth as Steven Croft edges to Scott Borthwick at third slip. Lancashire are 98-4.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire have moved on to 94-3 in the 32nd. Onions and Harmison have bowled tight spells after tea, although Ashwell Prince has just eased the latter through the covers for four off the back foot. 28 overs to bowl.

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  • 121 for 2 - Leicestershire v West Indians
    Adrian Barath and Darren Bravo are continuing their good work. Bravo brought up his fifty from a rapid 53 balls with eight fours, Barath has been a watchful anchor on 41 from 118. Their hundred stand is drawing nigh.

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  • TEA - Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire are 83-3 with 33 overs left in the day as they pursue 200 to end a run of seven without a win. Graham Onions has removed Karl Brown and Stephen Moore in the 50 minutes of play this afternoon. The visitors still need 117.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Karl Brown trapped lbw for 42 by a shooter from Onions. Lancashire are 80-3. This could be one heck of a finish.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Onions strikes by bowling Stephen Moore for 28, 63-2.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    We've had four overs of play, which has seen seven runs added by Lancashire and a dropped catch by Paul Collingwood at second slip to let Karl Brown off the hook on 30. Graham Onions was the bowler, with Collingwood diving away to his left. 63-1. Lancashire need another 137.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    We're off and underway at the Riverside. One other thing to note is that Durham's overrate is currently at -4, which means they'll be docked four points if it stays the same. At some point they will attempt to improve that by employing spin in the form of Scott Borthwick and maybe Will Smith.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Providing there is no further rain, play will start at 2.55pm.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Apparently there is more rain on the way, so the covers will remain on for the time being.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    The rain looks to have disappeared from the Riverside. The umpires have just inspected as the mopping up process resumes. We should have some news shortly.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    It's raining again at the Riverside.

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  • LUNCH - Durham v Lancashire
    An early lunch will be taken at 12.30pm. The rain, which has been very fine through most of the morning, seems to have stopped now. The mopping up operations has begun.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    I'm afraid we're in for a delayed start at the Riverside due to rain. It's a fairly bleak picture, but the trusty gateman assures me it will clear in the not too distant future. We're set for a cracking finish when and if it does. Lancashire, with nine wickets in hand, need another 144. Conditions for bowling, however, should make that considerably tougher than it sounds.

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  • Close Of Play - Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire closed on 56-1, needing a further 144 to win

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    After carrying his bat in the first innings, Horton went first ball this time, lbw to Onions. It's a funny old game.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Steve Harmison out first ball, lbw trying to paddle Kerrigan. Lancashire need 200 to win

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Stokes has gone for 121, skying a sweep off Kerrigan to long leg, where Hogg held the catch after dropping a sitter at long-off two overs earlier. On 267-9, Durham lead by 199

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  • Landmark - Durham v Lancashire
    Stokes pulled Hogg to long leg for a single to reach 100 off 148 balls. He has played with a blend of patience and power on a pitch where everyone else has found runs hard to come by.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Phil Mustard played the shot of a man who has has enough of leading a struggling team when he departed for three attempting a reverse sweep oiff Simon Kerrigan. He was caught at slip by Paul Horton. Durham are 229-6, Stokes is on 96

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  • TEA - Durham v Lancashire
    Durham are 208-5 at tea with Stokes on 80

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Collingwood fell lbw to Kyle Hogg two balls after reaching 50 off 98 balls. He never looked settled and was dropped by Ashwell Prince at second slip on 27, but the stand of 132 has given Durham a lead of 135. Stokes is on 78.

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  • Landmark - Durham v Lancashire
    Ben Stokes has revived Durham with a 91-ball half-century. He has put on 78 with Paul Collingwood, taking Durham to 149-4, leading by 81

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  • LUNCH - Durham v Lancashire
    Glen Chapple strikes to signal lunch two balls early. He has forced Dale Benkenstein to edge to Ashwell Prince at second slip to leave the score at 71-4. Durham lead by just three. Chapple has been virtually unplayable in his short burst before lunch from the Finchale End.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Now Stoneman has gone with Durham still five behind. He pushed forward and edged a good ball from Luke Procter to Gareth Cross. Gordon Muchall is struggling against Shahzad.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Durham have lost their first wicket on 53, still 15 behind. With the ball not swinging as much as on the first day, Smith and Stoneman both got to 22 before Smith fell lbw to a ball from Shahzad which started on leg stump and swung just enough

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  • Worcestershire v Somerset
    Play due to start at 11.35 at New Road

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    We're due for a prompt start at the Riverside, although conditions are very much overcast. Durham openers Will Smith and Mark Stoneman are the men faced with eating away at a 68-run deficit. Lancashire batsman Paul Horton believes their lead, in these conditions, is almost worth double.

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  • Close Of Play - Durham v Lancashire
    Play abandoned for the day at the Riverside.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    It's raining again.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Apologies, there's been a few internet issues at Durham. There were three balls of Durham's second innings after Lancashire were bowled out for 170 before rain halted play. But we have a restart of 5.15pm with 21 overs left in the day.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    James Harris strikes in the 8th over as Greg Smith is caught behind by Mark Wallace with Leics on 11/1, still trailling by 276 runs

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Simon Kerrigan is caught at second slip by Paul Collingwood, who also caught Kyle Hogg. Graham Onions takes the last wicket to finish with five as Lancashire are bowled out for 170. Paul Horton, who finishes 49 no, becomes Lancashire's first man to carry his bat since Alec Swann did it in 2002. He's only the sixth to do it since the 2nd World War.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Kyle Hogg has edged Steve Harmison to second slip for a very useful 33. Lancashire are now 156-9, leading by 54. Luke Procter said last night that a lead between 50 and 60 could be match-winning.

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire have brought up their 150 in the first two overs of play resuming today. Kyle Hogg has edged Steve Harmison through the slips for four twice. The visitors lead by 42. 

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    We are in for a delayed start at the Riverside due to fairly steady rain. The gate man has informed me that it is due to stop around 4pm, but he also reckons the prospect of play afterwards is highly unlikely.      

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  • Close Of Play - Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire closed on 141-8, 39 ahead, after Kyle Hogg contributed 23 to an unbroken stand of 32. Horton is still there on 31.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Left-armer Harrison's in-swing earned another lbw verdict when Chapple departed for 13. Opener Horton is still there on 24. 

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    A stand of 44 ended when Procter chased a wide one from Stokes and edged behind then Cross made the next 17 runs before being bowled by Harmison playing across the line. Jamie Harrison had Shahzad lbw, but Lancs took the lead on 103-7

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    It became 19-4 when Steven Croft drove lavishly at Onions and edged to Phil Mustard. Onions has four for 11 in four overs, 14 wickets have gone down in 43 overs and the pitch appears blameless

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Lancashire's reply was delayed by almost two hours then Graham Onions struck twice in the third over and again in the fifth. Stephen Moore edged to third slip, Karl Brown fell lbw and Ashwell Prince pushed forward and edged a snorter to second slip. 13-3

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  • Durham v Lancashire
    Bad light and a hint of drizzle intervened just as Lancashire were about to start their innings

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Durham all out for 102, Procter taking a career-best 5-17. A big in-ducker bowled Jamie Harrison for one and Chapple wrapped it up by trimming Steve Harmison's off stump

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Now Collingwood has gone for 25 - a fourth victim for the whirling Procter. He has bowled some big in-swingers to the right handers, but this one went straight on and the batsman was trapped on the crease, giving Peter Willey a simple lbw decision.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Luke Procter has four in an innings for the first time in his career thanks to the prized scalp of Paul Colingwood, trapped lbw for 25. Durham 93-8

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Luke Procter strikes in the first over after lunch as Scott Borthwick edges to Paul Horton at first slip. Durham are 88-7.

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  • LUNCH - Durham v Lancashire
    Durham are 85-6 at lunch. Phil Mustard was brilliantly caught at second slip by the diving Ashwell Prince off Procter. Collingwood is still there on 22.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    It became 70-5 when Dale Benkenstein, returning ahead of schedule after a shoulder injury, made ten before shaping to drive Luke Procter and edging a third catch to Cross. The same bowler looked unlucky not to have Paul Collingwood lbw for six.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    It became 34-4 with Hogg taking three wickets in six balls. Gordon Muchall went for a ball which had swung three feet wide of off stump and edged to Gareth Cross, then Ben Stokes tried to withdraw his bat and gave the wicketkeeper another catch.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Unusual dismissal for Will Smith. Shaping to play through the leg side, a ball from Kyle Hogg swung from outside leg stump to bowl Smith round his legs for 11. 32-2.

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  • WICKET - Durham v Lancashire
    Mark Stoneman confidently scored the first eight runs then clipped the first ball of the third over, from Glen Chapple, straight to Simon Kerrigan, just in front of sqaure leg 

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  • Team News - Durham v Lancashire
    DURHAM: Smith, Stoneman, Muchall, Stokes, Collingwood, Benkenstein, Borthwick, Mustard, Onions, Harmison, Harrison. LANCASHIRE: Horton, Moore, Brown, Prince, Croft, Procter, Cross, Shahzad, Chapple, Hogg, Kerrigan. We think Ian Blackwell misses out with a back injury. 

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Durham v Lancashire
    Glen Chapple has elected to have a bowl. 

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  • Close Of Play - Netherlands v Lancashire
    What an absolutely incredible finish as the hosts claim a stunning win by one wicket with two balls to spare. Talk about a roller-coaster of a contest. Lancashire had it won, the Netherlands had it won, Lancashire had it won and the Netherlands won it. Mudassar Bukhari, who smashed 36 at the end, is their hero.

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  • Netherlands v Lancashire
    A flurry of fours and sixes from Bukhari and the Dutch need just 12 to win. Incredible.

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  • Netherlands v Lancashire
    The Dutch need 41 off five overs with two wickets in hand. Mudassar Bukhari, who has just hit Sajid Mahmood for a whopper (he seriously manages the Burger King outlet at Schiphol Airport) of a six, really is their last hope.

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  • Netherlands v Lancashire
    With four wickets in the tent, the Dutch need 63 off the last ten overs. Their hopes seemingly lie with Cameron Borgas, who is 29 not out. All six wickets have fallen to spin, while middle and lower order collapses have been in vogue today. OH....SCRAP THAT, Sajid Mahmood strikes to get rid of Borgas lbw for 30. 180-7 now.

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  • WICKET - Netherlands v Lancashire
    A couple of wickets have gone in recent times...Tom Cooper was bowled by Steven Croft for 29 and Wesley Barresi bowled by Stephen Parry two balls into a new spell for 26. And another as Dutch captain Peter Borren is caught and bowled as I type for a duck. 163-5 now in the 27th. The hosts still need 74.

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  • Netherlands v Lancashire
    We're into the 21st over with the hosts on 128-2. Tom Cooper is on 28 and his South Australian team-mate Cameron Borgas is on 12. This is anybody's game at the moment, adding to my theory that there are some absolute crackers in 40-over cricket. The Dutch need 109 to win.

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  • WICKET - Netherlands v Lancashire
    A couple of key wickets for Lancashire....Michael Swart is caught by a tumbling Stephen Moore at cover off Stephen Parry and Stephan Myburgh is caught at long-on by Steven Croft off Gary Keedy for 34, 86-2 in the eleventh.

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  • Netherlands v Lancashire
    Talk about game on. Michael Swart is flying along on 29, with the Dutch at 39-0 in the sixth chasing 237. Lancashire fans shouldn't worry, mind, as he's bound to get tired soon. He was on my flight at 7am from Manchester this morning. Early get up!

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  • Interval - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Lancashire are bowled out for 236 in the 40th over as Malik and Swart both finish with four wickets. Lancashire have slipped from 199-2 early in the 32nd over. Incredible collapse brings the game right back into the balance. Lancashire still favourites, but it's game on.

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  • WICKET - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Steven Croft has just pulled Michael Swart down deep mid-wicket's throat for 55 to add to the recent wickets of Luke Procter lbw to Swart and Ajmal Shahzad lbw to Ahsan Malik. Lancashire, who were 192-2 after 30 overs, are now 222-8 in the 38th. Swart has 4-40 from his eight. So much for me labelling him a part-timer!

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  • WICKET - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Two more in quick succession leave Lancashire at 204-5 in the 33rd. Paul Horton reverse swept Michael Swart to backward point to hand the Australian his second wicket in the 32nd over before Gareth Cross was bowled by Ahsan Malik in the next over for a duck. 260 suddenly looks a challenge.

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  • WICKET - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Karl Brown has become the second Lancashire player to fall caught and bowled, this time to the off-spin of Michael Swart. He has gone for 41 and the Red Rose county are now 200-3 in the 32nd.

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  • Netherlands v Lancashire
    With 11 overs of their innings left, Lancashire are 180-2 and looking well set for 260 plus. Stephen Moore fell for 77 off 66 balls, caught and bowled by Pieter Seelaar. Steven Croft is on 32 and Karl Brown on 33. The Netherlands have already employed three spinners, two of whom are part-timers in Michael Swart and Tom Cooper. That should play right into the hands of Lancashire's duo of Stephen Parry and Gary Keedy.

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  • WICKET - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Lancashire's flying start has been halted somewhat by the departure of Ashwell Prince, caught at cover off Ahsan Malik's medium pace for 34. Stephen Moore is still there on 68 with the score at 116-1 in the 19th over. Steven Croft is on 14.

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  • Landmark - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Stephen Moore has raced to his fifty off 36 balls with eight fours and one six. Lancashire are currently 69-0 in the tenth over. Moore has bludgeoned the Dutch attack, including a fearsome flat pulled six into the hospitality tent off the seam of Timm ven der Gugten.

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Steven Croft has elected to bat first in the sun of Schiedam.

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  • Lancashire won the toss - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Steven Croft has elected to bat first in the sun of Schiedam.

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  • Team News - Netherlands v Lancashire
    Lancs: Moore, Prince, Croft, Brown, Horton, Procter, Cross, Shahzad, Mahmood, Parry, Keedy.
    Netherlands: Swart, Myburgh, Borgas, Cooper, Barresi (w), Borren (c), Gruijters, Bukhari, Seelaar, van der Gugten, Malik, Heggelman.

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Draw agreed at Aigburth. Chris Rogers batted throughout the final day to help his side save the game and bring up his first century of the season. The pitch offered far less than expected on the last day and only Sam Robson's wicket was taken.

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  • TEA - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Middlesex are 201-1 from 80 overs with 30 overs left in the day. Chris Rogers, recently caught at second slip off a Steven Croft no ball on 112, has reached tea on 117 and Joe Denly on 28. The pair have shared an unbroken 87-run stand. Middlesex need another 228 for the win and Lancashire nine wickets. 5pm handshake on the draw very much on the cards.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Hundred for Chris Rogers, his first since March 3 for Victoria v WA in the Sheffield Shield. It has come off 203 balls with 10 fours. Middlesex are now 171-1 in the 71st over. Ashwell Prince, who has not bowled for Lancashire this season, is bowling. Plan D for the Red Rose.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Chris Rogers has shown a little bit more intent after lunch, nothing major mind. He is on 80 and Middlesex are 140-1 at the start of the 59th over. We have 51.5 left today. 289 to win is the equation for Middlesex or nine wickets for Lancashire.

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Middlesex are 106-1 from 47 overs with Chris Rogers unbeaten on 55 and Joe Denly yet to get off the mark. They have 63 overs to bat out for the draw or another 323 to win if they're feeling confident. Rogers and Sam Robson, out for 50, shared 104 for the first wicket.



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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Sam Robson caught behind down the leg-side off Kyle Hogg's fifth ball of the day, gone for 50. 104-1 in the 45th. Hogg has just replaced Chapple, who seems to be struggling with a leg problem.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Now 50 for Sam Robson off 143 balls with six fours. Impressive stuff.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    50 for Chris Rogers off 116 balls with six fours as Middlesex reach 100-0 in the 42nd over. This has been the perfect session for the visitors so far. As you would expect, there has been nothing too expansive on a slow pitch showing some signs of help for the spin of Simon Kerrigan. But, in truth, conditions are still excellent for batting.



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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    An extremely steady start for Middlesex this morning has taken them beyond 50 for no loss. We have just come to the end of the 27th over, with the score at 57-0. The likelihood is that Chris Rogers, Sam Robson and company have 83 overs to survive or, if any Middlesex fans are feeling confident, 372 to win.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Another glorious day at Costa del Aigburth. Middlesex, in pursuit of an unlikely 429 to win, are 29-0. Lancashire were involved in some gripping finishes here last year, with last over wins against Yorkshire and Hampshire coming to mind. This could be another thriller.

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Middlesex saw out the final 14 overs of the day to reach the close on 29 without loss. Chris Rogers and Sam Robson survived an intense effort from the hosts but it remains a monumental task to see off the Lancashire attack, especially Simon Kerrigan.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Glen Chapple has been run out and has declared with a lead of 428 on 266-8. Lancashire will bowl 16 overs tonight. Dawid Malan has taken a career best 5-61.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    A fifth wicket for Dawid Malan secures Middlesex's first five-for of the season. Ajmal Shahzad holes out to long-off.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Cross lbw to Rayner on the reverse sweep. 254-6.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Dawid Malan has stolen his fourth wicket. After a waist high full toss and a long hop go for four and six, Steven Croft holes out on the leg-side boundary. Lancashire 250-5, leading by 412. It looks to me as if they'll bowl about 10 overs tonight.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Third wicket for Dawid Malan as he gets Karl Brown caught behind for 76, the ball ballooning up off bat and pad. Lancashire, who lead by 387, are 225-4 with 20 overs left in the day.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Ashwell Prince is stumped by John Simpson off Dawid Malan for 26, leaving the score at 206-3. Lancashire's lead is 368.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Paul Horton chips Dawid Malan's leg-spin (his second ball) to mid-on to fall for 89 on the stroke of tea. Lancashire have gone into tea at 161-2, leading by 323 with 32 overs left. Karl Brown reached his 50 the ball before.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire's lead now stands at 322 as we approach tea with them on 160-1. Paul Horton, on course for his second century in a week, is on 89 and Karl Brown on 49. We have 33 overs left in the day.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Half-century for Paul Horton off 71 balls including seven fours. Lancashire, with a first innings lead of 162, are 95-1 in the 25th. They lead by 257 with 45 and a half overs to go today.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    A customary wicket-taking walk around the ground for the four-man press corps has captured the scalp of Stephen Moore, caught at second slip by a diving Ollie Rayner, who clung on one-handed. Tim Murtagh was the bowler, and Lancashire are now 42-1 in the 15th.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire have not enforced the follow-on....They will begin their second innings with a lead of 162. It seems that Middlesex will not have Steven Finn available to them after all. Middlesex say he had to be here by 11am at the start of the third day to be able to join the match.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Corey Collymore has been caught at first slip by Paul Horton off Ajmal Shahzad, who has finished with 13.5-4-40-4. Middlesex were bowled out for 230, meaning they still trail by 162 and could be asked to follow-on after lunch.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Gareth Berg has just chipped Simon Kerrigan to Ashwell Prince at cover for 23, Middlesex are 217-9.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Ollie Rayner has fallen to Ajmal Shahzad, caught at second slip by Ashwell Prince. Shahzad has his third wicket and Middx are 203-8.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    And now John Simpson has been trapped lbw by former club-mate Simon Kerrigan for 43, leaving the score at 188-7. The pair played nine games together for Liverpool Competion side Ormskirk in 2008. Middlesex are still 55 away from avoiding the follow-on.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Neil Dexter caught behind off Glen Chapple for 47 as the 87-run stand between him and John Simpson ends. The umpires had to meet to check whether the ball had carried. Middlesex are 182-6.



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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Steven Finn is expected to join this game at some point today after being left out of England's Test team at Trent Bridge. Corey Collymore was nominated as the player to drop out at the toss. Middlesex will resume their first innings on 155-5, trailing by 237 and still needing 88 tro avoid the follow-on.

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Middlesex recovered to 155 for 5 at the close, having been reduced to 95- 5. Neil Dexter and John Simpson settled nerves but they weren't without a few risky shots, which Lancashire had cut out of their fine first innings.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    And another wicket for Lancashire as Simon Kerrigan gets his name in the wicket column with the scalp of Dawid Malan, caught at short-leg by Steven Croft. Middlesex are in trouble at 95-5. We still have 18 and a bit overs left tonight.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Eoin Morgan has been bowled for eight by Ajmal Shahzad. 83-4.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Denly has perished to Ajmal Shahzad, square driving to Karl Brown at point for 32. Middlesex are 69-3 in the 22nd, and here comes Eoin Morgan for his first Championship innings since July 2010.

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  • TEA - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Middlesex 50-2 from 15 overs at tea. Joe Denly 20 not out and Dawid Malan on six.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Sam Robson trapped lbw by Glen Chapple for 19, nipped back and kept low. Middlesex 37-2 in the 11th.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Kyle Hogg, who has shared the new ball with Glen Chapple, has struck with his second ball from the River End of the ground as Chris Rogers edges behind to Gareth Cross, who completes the catch one-handed tumbling to his left. Middlesex 1-1 after eight balls.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire are all out for 392 as Gareth Cross whips Ollie Rayner to Chris Rogers at mid-wicket. The Red Rose have lost their last six wickets for 71 runs. Tim Murtagh has taken 3-84 and Rayner 3-88. Middlesex will be delighted with that from 321-4. Impressive stuff from them today.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire's second run out of the innings accounts for Kyle Hogg, who was called back for a second by Gareth Cross. He was undone at the non-striker's end by a Corey Collymore throw from deep backward square-leg. The hosts are 384-9.

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  • Essex v Derbyshire
    A pull to the boundary by Wes Durston moves Derbyshire into the lead in the 54th over. Now 185-3 and Durston has  70

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Glen Chapple has holed out to Gareth Berg at mid-on as he tries to up the scoring-rate. He his top-edge has handed Murtagh his third wicket, and Lancashire are 372-8.

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  • WICKET - Essex v Derbyshire
    Wicket for David Masters. Wayne Madsen departs in 3rd over after lunch for 50  without addition to his lunch score. He receives a lifting dleivery from the bowler and edges a catch to James Foster. Derbyshire 161 for 3.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    A fairly sedate start to the afternoon session has just sprung into action in the space of three balls. First Tim Murtagh fields a ball and does five or six keepy-uppys to gain a warm round of applause from the Liverpool crowd. Then Glen Chapple pulls him emphatically for four before Chapple was dropped at first slip by Dawid Malan on 14 at first slip. 369-7.

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire go into the break at 353-7 from 125 overs having lost Ajmal Shahzad caught at short-leg off Ollie Rayner's bowling in the last 15 minutes of the session.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Luke Procter is caught at mid-wicket by Joe Denly off Ollie Rayner's off-spin for 39, Lancashire 325-6.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Ashwell Prince has gone for 144, caught one-handed at first slip by Ollie Rayner off Gareth Berg, leaving the score at 321-5 in the 114th. That also brings to an end a stand of 90 with Luke Procter, 37 not out.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire, who are 315-4, have claimed three batting bonus points and Middlesex one. It will be interesting to see what state the game is in if Steven Finn was to join the fray tomorrow. Lancashire may score enough first innings runs to ensure they don't have to bat again. Finn may come in as a specialist batsman!!

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  • WICKET - Surrey v Warwickshire
    Warwickshire 131-2. Porterfield has gone, caught at first slip, driving lavishly at Batty. By and large, however, Surrey have not really threatened. So, on what promises to be the hottest day of the year so far, there could be lots of leather chasing.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Play about to start at Liverpool in glorious sunshine. Ashwell Prince, 121 not out, was a relieved man last night after posting his ton: "People won’t realise, and I'm probably the only person that knows, that the last 10 times I have been passed 50, I haven’t been able to convert. That has been on my mind," he said. Lancashire's first target is to clinch their third batting point. They're 276-4 from 96 overs.

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  • Close Of Play - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Having won the toss and dominated an attritional first day, Lancashire closed on 276 for 4. At 55 for 3 they were in danger of getting themselves into a spot of bother but were rescued by a display of outstanding discipline from Ashwell Prince.

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  • Lancashire v Middlesex
    Ashwell Prince offers a rare false stroke on 110 as he top edges a Gareth Berg bouncer over the keeper for four. The run rate has increased since the new ball was taken by Middlesex after 84 overs but only the one wicket has fallen.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Durham
    50 for Trego, the fourth of the innings. He has been more selective than some of his team-mates and looks set to go on. Alfonso Thomas also looks comfortable and Somerset trail by only 46 on 338-7

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Hundred up for Ashwell Prince, and he looks delighted. This is his third in Lancashire colours in the Championship in the early stages of his third spell with the county (2009 and 2010). Full of determination, it has come off 206 balls with eight fours. Lancashire are 246-4 in the 88th.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Chris Rogers' decision to take the new ball at the start of the 85th over has been vindicated immediately with the wicket of Steven Croft, caught behind by John Simpson off Tim Murtagh for 78. A stand of 176 between him and Ashwell Prince has been broken, and Lancashire are 231-4.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Durham
    Somerset have recovered from their wobble through a maiden first-class 50 by 18-year-old Craig Overton. It came off only 54 balls with ten fours, but off the next ball he faced he edged Jamie Harrison to Phil Mustard, ending a stand of 99 with Peter Trego

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    50 for Steven Croft, his thrd this season as Lancashire's determined fightback continues. Lancashire now at 170-3.

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  • TEA - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire's session. They have gone into tea at 164-3 from 64 overs, with Ashwell Prince at 64 not out and Steven Croft 48 not out. The pair have shared in an unbroken stand of 109 for the fourth wicket in seemingly decent batting conditions after Glen Chapple won the toss this morning. Middlesex have had a number of lbw shouts turned down. Ollie Rayner was particularly surprised at being answered in the negative as Prince was rapped on the pads sweeping.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    100 stand for the fourth wicket between Ashwell Prince and Steven Croft, Lancashire 155-3.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    A fifth half-century of the season for Ashwell Prince off 110 balls with four fours. Lancashire 125-3 in the 50th over. The South African has shared an unbroken 70 for the fourth wicket with Steven Croft, who has recently swept Ollie Rayner for six.

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  • Landmark - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire have brought up their 100 with no further losses in the 50 minutes after lunch. They have reached 102-3. Ashwell Prince is leading the way on 38 not out and Steven Croft on 16.

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  • WICKET - Somerset v Durham
    Cancel that last statement. Durham turned to debut boy Jamie Harrison and, just like the talented Ben Stokes yesterday, Hildreth got carried away. He tried to whip the left armer through mid-wicket and lost his leg stump for 53.

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  • Landmark - Somerset v Durham
    Hildreth's 50 came up off only 35 balls with ten fours and a six. Compton is on 39, Somerset are 138-2 and Durham don't know where to turn

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  • Somerset v Durham
    It was obvious why Harmison and Plunkett had been playing in the second team as they conceded 69 runs in 11 overs between them, even though Harmison bowled two maidens either side of lunch. Hildreth hooked him for six in racing to 39 off 24 balls

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  • LUNCH - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Lancashire are 70-3 from 30 overs with Ashwell Prince on 22 not out and Steven Croft on three. After a steady start from the hosts, the morning honours go to Middlesex.

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  • WICKET - Lancashire v Middlesex
    Stephen Moore top-edges an attempted pull off Gareth Berg to Eoin Morgan at long-leg, falling for 25 to leave the score at 55-3. Lancashire have lost three for 19.

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