One day cup match. Sussex are 160 for 5 with 15.0 overs left
Live stream
https://youtu.be/Fr1Rc3rDY2c

Lovely setting at Sedbergh school.

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:28 pm

Lovely setting at Sedbergh school.

Not sure the members are in favour

Sixteen year old Burnley born Dan Ibrahim batting superbly 41 no, 241/6 two overs to go

19/3
Poor start chasing 270

Good game to win now

Vilas gone now.
65/4

onewillieirvine wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 2:08 pm

Sixteen year old Burnley born Dan Ibrahim batting superbly 41 no, 241/6 two overs to go

Looks a good lad.
Having a fine day, so far.

Both teams have a number of unfamiliar names on view, obviously a direct result of this Hundred nonsense. A lot of onus on Jones & Croft now, as there's not a lot of batting after them.

Crofts gone.
93/5

Tough ask for Lancs now, a chance for Lavelle to show his wears anyway.

Buttler, Davies & Mahmood missing amongst many others, so it was always going to be a stretch for Lancs to pull off a win today.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:31 pm

Tough ask for Lancs now, a chance for Lavelle to show his wears anyway.

Buttler, Davies & Mahmood missing amongst many others, so it was always going to be a stretch for Lancs to pull off a win today.

Average age of the Sussex team is 20.

Another from the Lenham dynasty on display. Looks a useful leggie for a seventeen year old

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:31 pm

Tough ask for Lancs now, a chance for Lavelle to show his wears anyway.

Buttler, Davies & Mahmood missing amongst many others, so it was always going to be a stretch for Lancs to pull off a win today.

Clutching mate

115 for 7 after 27 overs

onewillieirvine wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:40 pm

Another from the Lenham dynasty on display. Looks a useful leggie for a seventeen year old

He does.
3/24 so far.
But he'll not get his wickets so easily on most other days.

Also missing the big name overseas player.

He will if he bowls at our lot any time soon

Sussex are missing a few as well, Archer, Jordan and Salt to name three

Lancs are missing 9 aren't they?

Buttler, Livingstone, Mahmood, Parkinson, Davies, Hartley, Wood, Gleeson... and whoever the overseas was due to be.

Makes the competition pretty pointless..... it's the equivalent of the U23 league, but packaged up as first team comp.

dandeclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 5:01 pm

Lancs are missing 9 aren't they?

Buttler, Livingstone, Mahmood, Parkinson, Davies, Hartley, Wood, Gleeson... and whoever the overseas was due to be.

Makes the competition pretty pointless..... it's the equivalent of the U23 league, but packaged up as first team comp.

It does Dan.
Great place to watch a game, but it's a bit like us all going down to Barnfield to watch the reserves.

Would add, it's good see a lot more spinners in England these days, after they went almost extinct at one point.

The England test players will be missing from the hundred shortly so that devalues the comp as well. Along with a lack of Aussie, Indians and South Africans it's hardly an all bells and whistles tournament.

Here at Sedbergh it looks like one of these teams has a good idea at what it's doing and the other is Lancashire. From behind the keeper it looked like Rob Jones got an absolute shocker and that's the only straw I can clutch at other than the weather.

50 partnership between Lumb & Bailey, sadly too little too late for Lancs hopes.

At least they've added some respectably to the scoreboard, but we've been comprehensively outplayed again, and well it's true that both teams are well under strength Lancs form has been poor for a while now, apart from those 3 late victories in the T20, but that looks like a false dawn, and it could be a long end to the season unless we get our regulars back sooner rather than later.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 5:24 pm

50 partnership between Lumb & Bailey, sadly too little too late for Lancs hopes.

At least they've added some respectably to the scoreboard, but we've been comprehensively outplayed again, and well it's true that both teams are well under strength Lancs form has been poor for a while now, apart from those 3 late victories in the T20, but that looks like a false dawn, and it could be a long end to the season unless we get our regulars back sooner rather than later.

Another hot take..... won the division in the 4 day game, qualified in the T20 blast. Vastly weakened team outplayed today by the looks of it, in a mickey mouse competition now.

And that's a poor season?

dandeclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 5:27 pm

Another hot take..... won the division in the 4 day game, qualified in the T20 blast. Vastly weakened team outplayed today by the looks of it, in a mickey mouse competition now.

And that's a poor season?

Agreed, got a real chance in the CC, and 6 wins and 1 tie at OT in the T20 is hardly dogger

Can they do it..?

Bugger.
Great knock though.

Need a David Hughs moment here.

dandeclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 5:27 pm

Another hot take..... won the division in the 4 day game, qualified in the T20 blast. Vastly weakened team outplayed today by the looks of it, in a mickey mouse competition now.

And that's a poor season?

We've got a chance in the blast if we can get our full strength side out, but that's a big if as it stands.

I'll be surprised if Lancs can challenge for the CC, teams such as Somerset have so much more strength in depth than we currently possess unfortunately.

I never said we'd had a poor season, however after a promising beginning results have tailed off in the last month or so, admittedly not helped by the weather, and Yorkshire being unable to prepare a decent outfield.

In the longer term Lancashire will need to somehow replace Buttler, Davies (obs) Livingstone & Mahmood, one is leaving, if he hasn't already, and the other 3 will be on England duty more often than not, so let's hope we can either recruit, which seems unlikely if finances are as bad as recent events suggest, or we have a few gems waiting in the wings to be promoted from the 2nd XI.

Regarding today whether we pull off an unlikely run chase or not I agree, it's similar to the early rounds of the FA Cup when teams field shadow sides to rest players for other comps.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 5:51 pm

We've got a chance in the blast if we can get our full strength side out, but that's a big if as it stands.

I'll be surprised if Lancs can challenge for the CC, teams such as Somerset have so much more strength in depth than we currently possess unfortunately.

I never said we'd had a poor season, however after a promising beginning results have tailed off in the last month or so, admittedly not helped by the weather, and Yorkshire being unable to prepare a decent outfield.

In the longer term Lancashire will need to somehow replace Buttler, Davies (obs) Livingstone & Mahmood, one is leaving, if he hasn't already, and the other 3 will be on England duty more often than not, so let's hope we can either recruit, which seems unlikely if finances are as bad as recent events suggest, or we have a few gems waiting in the wings to be promoted from the 2nd XI.

Regarding today whether we pull off an unlikely run chase or not I agree, it's similar to the early rounds of the FA Cup when teams field shadow sides to rest players for other comps.

Blast will be after this sham of a competition, so will have back Mahmood, Parkinson, Livingstone and still have Finn Allen.

In the month of July for lancashire

Beat Yorkshire (Blast)
Beat Durham (Blast)
Scored 411-2 Championship vs Yorks
Beat Northants - Blast
Drew with Kent having bowled them out for 74, and had them 149-8 - still 32 runs behind Lancs 1st innings score
Beat Worcester in the blast.

Bar the weather, it was going to be a 100% month..... results just haven't tailed off at all. They had a spell of 3 poor performances together in the blast in mid June - that's about it for the whole season.

Ha ha the weather gets another airing in excuse central.

What a win that was, well batted Lamby

Lancs win

Well, who'd have thought.

Well the weather, with Kent 8 down and 28 behind with a day and a half lost….. and then the shambles of ground in Yorkshire. Oooh the outfields still wet.

Big win in the end. Looked unlikely when the seventh wicket fell.

Come on Tiger give us your opinion on this great win then?

I enjoyed watching that.

Obviously Lancashire winning from an impossible position helped, but I also enjoyed watching the young Sussex players. Their outfielding was superb.

Just great batting at the end.

Up the

dandeclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:01 pm

Blast will be after this sham of a competition, so will have back Mahmood, Parkinson, Livingstone and still have Finn Allen.

In the month of July for lancashire

Beat Yorkshire (Blast)
Beat Durham (Blast)
Scored 411-2 Championship vs Yorks
Beat Northants - Blast
Drew with Kent having bowled them out for 74, and had them 149-8 - still 32 runs behind Lancs 1st innings score
Beat Worcester in the blast.

Bar the weather, it was going to be a 100% month..... results just haven't tailed off at all. They had a spell of 3 poor performances together in the blast in mid June - that's about it for the whole season.

Well if all our big hitters (quite literally in some cases) are back for the blast finale, then yes we've got a real shot.

Apologies I hadn't realised Lancs had enjoyed such a good July, we did have a brief stutter in June when it looked like we were going to struggle to qualify in the blast, but we pulled it out of the fire in the last few crucial games.

So it could yet be an exciting end to the season, in the last 6 of the revamped CC, though to the next stage of the blast, and somehow pulling victory from the jaws of defeat today, when all seemed lost.

A huge hand to Danny Lamb especially, who with solid support from Bailey and Hurt saw us home to a famous win.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:47 pm

Well if all our big hitters (quite literally in some cases) are back for the blast finale, then yes we've got a real shot.

Apologies I hadn't realised Lancs had enjoyed such a good July, we did have a brief stutter in June when it looked like we were going to struggle to qualify in the blast, but we pulled it out of the fire in the last few crucial games.

So it could yet be an exciting end to the season, in the last 6 of the revamped CC, though to the next stage of the blast, and somehow pulling victory from the jaws of defeat today, when all seemed lost.

A huge hand to Danny Lamb especially, who with solid support from Bailey and Hurt saw us home to a famous win.

I've been really impressed by Liam Hurt this season, and Bailey has been the best bowler in the CC for the last couple of years

ChrisG wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:52 pm

I've been really impressed by Liam Hurt this season, and Bailey has been the best bowler in the CC for the last couple of years

Bailey's been a key member of Lancs CC and limited overs squads for almost a decade now, and sometimes he can go under the radar, I think his chances of an England call up are now slim at his age, but in domestic cricket he's a huge asset to possess for any county, thankfully he's a local lad born and bred, so that should ensure he finishes his career with the Red Rose.

Hurt I don't know much about. but his figures have been pretty decent this season.

And both those lads are from Preston, so it just goes to show the talent is on Lancs doorstep if they want to search for it.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:02 pm

Bailey's been a key member of Lancs CC and limited overs squads for almost a decade now, and sometimes he can go under the radar, I think his chances of an England call up are now slim at his age, but in domestic cricket he's a huge asset to possess for any county, thankfully he's a local lad born and bred, so that should ensure he finishes his career with the Red Rose.

Hurt I don't know much about. but his figures have been pretty decent this season.

And both those lads are from Preston, so it just goes to show the talent is on Lancs doorstep if they want to search for it.

Absolutely. Look at Lancs squad, most of them are born in the boundaries of the county Palatine.

The one that excites me the most is Saqib. He is the real deal. I genuinely think he can be a replacement for Broad in the test team.

Vilas now off to join one of the plastic clubs as well.

Looks like Tom Bailey will be leading the lads today.

dandeclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:51 am

Vilas now off to join one of the plastic clubs as well.

I'm not sure Lancs letting their overseas player go is a wise move.

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:41 am

I'm not sure Lancs letting their overseas player go is a wise move.

Do the counties have any choice in the matter?, it seems players are going to teams on an ad-hoc basis.

This Hundred format is ruining the game as a spectacle, and I don't see how it benefits the counties in any way whatsoever.