That Ed Barnard is at it again, dragging Warwickshire towards 200 with an unbeaten 57. Warwicks currently 187-8, 113 behind. Four wickets for Kyle Abbott.
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Could be a pretty dreamy September for Middlesex fans with Kohli and Williamson in the middle order…
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Ali with the scoop:
Andersson strides in from his namesake’s end. A meditative period falls upon OT. Lancs 430-7.
Hello Gary Naylor!
“What’s the ideal score for Lancashire here? My feeling is that 420 or so should be enough because they really need the win and that is more likely with a third innings thrash for Lanky and a fourth innings chase for Derbyshire. I don’t think you can build a winning position by insuring against the bowlers from going for 500+. Especially with Jimmy Anderson available - and he’ll probably veto the follow-on anyway.”
It feels like they’re just chugging along here, waiting for the grand reveal.
It’s been all go at Chester le Street – first Ben Stokes, with what looks like blond hair, warms up on the outfield, then James Minto is caught second ball after the break after a cracking 58. Lees has 58, McKinnney has zipped to 21 off 23 balls. Durham 147-1.
Under the shade of the Old Trafford concourse, four boys are playing cricket with a coke bottle for a bat and a screwed up sweatshirt for stumps. Out in the sun, Lancashire have eased past 400…Jimmy time approaches.
Lunchtime scores
DIVISION ONE
Chester-le-Street: Durham 107-0 v Nottinghamshire 407
Taunton: Somerset 338 v Sussex 68-2
The Oval: Surrey 145-2 v Yorkshire 255
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 103-6 v Hampshire 300
New Road: Worcestershire 358 v Essex 57-3
DIVISION TWO
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 216-4 v Northants 185
Bristol: Gloucestershire 48-0 v Kent 424
Old Trafford: Lancashire 380-6 v Derbyshire
Lord’s: Middlesex 232 v Leicestershire 112-4
A wicket from nowhere at OT. Balderson bowled, a slither of an inside edge, off Morley, for 73. He can’t believe it and bends over his bat in disappointment. Lancashire 377-6, the end of the third century stand of this Lancashire innings.
Round the grounds:
Minto and Lees plough on: Durham 92-0 at Chester le Street.
At Hove, Archie Vaughan did not reach a hundred, giving a dolly to mid-off for 80, Somerset 338 all out. Four wickets to Ollie Robinson. COverton and the returning Matt Henry have struck early for Somerset, Sussex 49-2, Haines and Clark out.
Surrey have lost both openers at The Oval, but debutant Kurtis Patterson and Dan Lawrence have taken Surrey to 131-2.
Three wickets for Abbot as Warwickshire wobble at 94-5. Webster steadying the ship, not out 40.
And Essex haven’t had a great morning, Elgar joining Allison C and Westley back in the pavilion. Essex 51-3, still 307 behind.
Fifties for the Georges at OT, fifty for James Minto at CLS
George Bell, all perfectly proportioned neatness, reaches fifty with a single, to join George Balderson (58 not out) in the half century club. At CLS, Minto has become the youngest cricketer to score a f-c fifty for Durham, at just under 17 and a half. And he’s the nightwatchman!
Seventeen year old James Minto is having a morning to remember at Durham, a rapid 46 not out against Mohammad Abbas and the rest. Durham racing along to 72-0 after Notts were all out for 407. HH said last night how fast the dry outfields were.
Good morning Tim Maitland:
“Haseeb Hameed’s impressive, but not faultless, knock yesterday has put him back on top of the Division One run scorers list with 682 from 10 innings. It will come as no surprise to learn that carrying his bat and scoring over half his side’s runs has also sent his average soaring into three figures at 113.66.
”For completeness Adam Lyth is second on the list with 666, although I have no idea how a sextuple Nelson on individual statistics plays out.
”As for Notts, I imagine they are steeling themselves for a long hard day in the field. Listening to the live stream as play began, I heard the Chester-le-street pitch described as the driest Durham had ever prepared there. You didn’t need to nip down the A688 for one of Dominic Cummings’ famous eye tests to see that the outfield was just as arid: on day one Durham’s infielders didn’t chase the ball to the ropes when it penetrated the ring, more shrugged and jogged after it to collect it once it had hit something solid outside the boundary.
”I’m now visualising great Saharan sand dunes forming around Washington: the Angel of the North towering over a desolate desert landscape while salt flats surround Sunderland.”
Thanks Tim (who wrote this before Has was left high and dry, not out for 206), and yes to the pitches – we’ve been a month without rain at Old Trafford and I guess the same at Durham. Worrying times (though if you briefly forget about climate, very lovely to see the blue skies). I did hear the forecasters say that rain was on the way for the bank holiday weekend.
Bell and Balderson are batting beautifully this morning at OT, another bonus point in the bag and fours a plenty – 70 runs in the first hour.
In the other division two games:
Glamorgan have lost Carlson for a feisty 54, 149-4 against Northants; Gloucestershire’s Singh Dale, impressive against Lancashire, now has seven wickets against Kent including Benjamin (93) and Stewart (182) who frolicked wildly last night. Kent 424-9. And at Lord’s, Leicestershire have lost two more wickets this morning, Budingher and Ahmed, 73-3.
Oh Brother where art thou?
Lurking with intent at New Road….first Charlie Allison caught brother Ben to polish off Essex, now Ben has bowled Charlie for 0. Extra confusing for a cricket scorecard that their initials are b and c.
It was 59 years ago today, Bob Dylan played his famous concert at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. I don’t suppose any blog readers were there?
and Somerset are now nine down, Vaughan 80 not out, Leach needs to find his inner Headingley.
An early tumble of wickets round the grounds: OHD and Tom Latham gone at Edgbaston, where Warwickshire at are now in a spot of trouble at 42-4 against Hampshire; Craig Overton has been smartly caught by John Simpson at Hove, oh and Pretorius too – Somerset 362-8 and Archie Vaughan in danger of running out of partners while in sight of a century. And Worcestershire have been bundled out for 358 by Essex.
At OT, four boundaries already after a slow grind yesterday – it took 47 minutes for the first ball to travel over the rope.
Some interesting insight from the reporters network last night, that Luke Wells had asked to return to the top of the order
“I’m obviously pleased to get a score. I actually called Benky the other day asking to go back up the order. I did have opportunities to win a couple of games in run chases batting at six, so I did have opportunities to impact the team there and was disappointed that I didn’t get a match-winning contribution score.
“But I just felt, especially when everyone’s under pressure, we haven’t got the results we wanted. I’d rather go to what I know best, having done that for the majority of my career.
“It paid off and the game is such a funny one because, you know, narratives completely change according to the result and what happens. Drop second ball or whatever, that gets caught, (it’s a) whole different narrative.”
Incredible that over 6,000 people were at The Oval yesterday – well played to everyone there. Here at OT, Ben Aitchison has the new ball, playing his first Championship match since July 2023, after a terrible run of luck with injuries.
A great journey down memory lane from Taha, and a thoughtful analysis on the disappearance of cricket from the national conversation.
Friday's round-up
In Division One, a feisty Jonny Bairstow frisked 89 at a honey-warm Oval, where the Guardian football writer Jonathan Wilson and his stag do were among the 6,000 spectators. There were three wickets apiece for Surrey’s Jordan Clark and Tom Lawes and a gravity-defying catch by Ben Foakes, hanging in the air like an unvoiced memory. Adam Lyth added another fifty to his hefty season’s collection, but Yorkshire wilted after tea.
The Nottinghamshire captain Haseeb Hameed was a sea of calm on a stormy scorecard at Chester-le-Street, carrying his bat for 206. Brydon Carse, playing in his first game for Durham this season after a toe injury, bowled through 14 overs, and grabbed three wickets. Somerset appeared to have thrown their batting order into a paper bag and pulled out the numbers at random - but the new approach had its successes against Sussex. The upside-down opening partnership put on just 21, but there were contributions down the order, including an unbeaten 70 from Archie Vaughan.
Warwickshire’s Ed Barnard (four for 56) and Olly Hannon-Dalby (three for 47) riffed through Hampshire at Edgbaston, despite an unbeaten 52 from James Fuller. At New Road, a swarm of bees forced the players off the pitch where Worcestershire earned their first batting points of the season, ending on 354-9 against Essex.
In Division Two, more than 2,000 children revelled in the heat of the concrete concourse at Old Trafford, where it has been a busy few days. On Tuesday, Keaton Jennings stepped down as Lancashire captain, replaced by Marcus Harris, and the club officially apologised for the bad start to the season. That bad start continued shortly after Jennings walked out and was caught off Blair Tickner for two, Josh Bohannon following close behind. But Luke Wells took charge of the rebuild against Derbyshire, his carefully crafted 141 his highest score at Old Trafford.
At Lord’s, Ian Holland’s golden summer continued, his five for 35 giving Division Two leaders Leicestershire the upper hand over Middlesex. Northants lost nine for 80 at Sophia Gardens, brittle as overcooked flapjack, before Marnus Labuschagne made a duck on his Glamorgan return. At Bristol, Grant Stewart’s boundary-biffing 173 not out transformed Kent’s day as they made 386-6 against Gloucestershire.
Scores on the doors
DIVISION ONE
Chester-le-Street: Durham 2-0 v Nottinghamshire 470
Taunton: Somerset 317-6 v Sussex
The Oval: Surrey 46-0 v Yorkshire 255
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 27-2 v Hampshire 300
New Road: Worcestershire 354-9 v Essex
DIVISION TWO
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 82-3 v Northants 185
Bristol: Gloucestershire v Kent 386-6
Old Trafford: Lancashire 250-5 v Derbyshire
Lord’s: Middlesex 232 v Leicestershire 22-1
Preamble
Good morning from a cloudy Old Trafford – possibly not the best news for Derbyshire with Jimmy Anderson due to stretch that 42nd year old body later today. Play starts around the grounds at 11am, do join us.
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