Two Championship games left for Lancs and the penultimate one starts at Headingley tomorrow and they realistically have to win them both to stay in division one.

So myself and Flixtonclaret are off to dirty Leeds at 8am to support the Red Rose and hope for a positive result against the failures of the recent English team in Lyth, Ballance and Bresnan.

The members of Yorkshire love us following recent meetings so it should be good fun. Not!

Into their "Long Room" at 11am.

What could go wrong?

Yorkshire still have to play Hampshire, as do we. Our batsmen simply must start supporting our excellent bowlers!

Well done ty & Flixton. If I lived up north still, Id be there too.
As it passes, I'm in Hampshire & I can take the baton off you for the last round of games 24th Sept for Hants v Lancs down the Ageas Bowl. Hopefully we're still in with a chance of survival then. Worcester play Yorks in that same round so it could all go down to last day nail-biters.

A real good cricket day in prospect tomorrow with the state of day 4 in the test match as well as the county games starting.

jdrobbo wrote:Yorkshire still have to play Hampshire, as do we. Our batsmen simply must start supporting our excellent bowlers!

Absolutely right.

I just hope that they concentrate on this game and not on Saturday's finals T20s day in their heads.

Yorkshire won't have that problem having been rubbish at everything.

LeadBelly wrote:Well done ty & Flixton. If I lived up north still, Id be there too.
As it passes, I'm in Hampshire & I can take the baton off you for the last round of games 24th Sept for Hants v Lancs down the Ageas Bowl. Hopefully we're still in with a chance of survival then. Worcester play Yorks in that same round so it could all go down to last day nail-biters.

A real good cricket day in prospect tomorrow with the state of day 4 in the test match as well as the county games starting.

If by chance we beat Yorkshire we are daft enough to probably come down to Hants for the last game if we are still in with a shout of staying up.

Yorkshire can bat, we can’t so I’m expecting a defeat.

tybfc wrote:What could go wrong?

like all away games...you'll have to stand all match!



good luck Lancs + have a great day out!

Let battle commence, may the weather permit a fair contest.

This signing might help Lancs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45464808

Can he bat?

Yorkies 32-3 this might not last 2 days,2 for Bailey 1 for Onions.

55/4

(We're 34/4)
Come on, Lancs.
Let's 'av em!

If Lancashire do get relegated,Tom Bailey will be hard too hang on to over 50 wickets now.

177 for 8.
If Lancashire get the last two wickets quickly Yorkshire could be batting again tonight.

Important we don't give them any bonus points if possible.

209 all out shame Lancs let it slip from 144-7,important batting bat point for the hosts.

Now can the batters finally show some ability,Kohler-Cadmore has shown you can score runs on this pitch.

My guess - 6 down at stumps.

Bordeauxclaret wrote:My guess - 6 down at stumps.

Only 6

49 for none. come on Lancy

78-0

93 - 0 ..... is it only me waiting for the collapse ??

101 for none. Easy Easy. On my way to Headingly tomorrow to see us get 350 and then bowl dirty Leeds out before the close of play.

105 - 0 at the close ....

Well that was a nice surprise.

Grand stuff!
Been an all-round brilliant day for cricket!

Jimmy drew level with McGrath today too.

That's a great first day for Lancs. Without seeing the pitch, it seemed a brave (foolhardy I thought maybe) decision to put opposition in but it's worked out very well. Full 3 bowling points to us and only 1 batting point for Yorkies; a decent chance of 3/4 batting points tomorrow - though shouldnt get too ahead of ourselves.
Looks like there'l be a result in the Hants v Somerset game though (106 AO for Somerset, 142-9 Hants after 1 day); hope Somerset can do better 2nd innings & put some pressure on Hants.

Well a fun day out in Yorkshire.

Northern Fail's 8.14am train from Accrington to Leeds arrived at 8.43am due to a member of staff being late.

I ascertained that it was the driver who was late because the train to get him to Preston had been delayed.

So half an hour late into Dirty Leeds by which time we had won the toss and thankfully decided to bowl in very overcast conditions.

Myself and Flixtonclaret and several other Lancs supporters were in the Members Long Room at Headingley.

It isn't very long.

Guinness, G&T's and red wine were all £5 per pint / glass.

The locals didn't like us but we didn't care.

Well done to Lancs bowlers and for once the opening batsmen who may get some time at the crease on Tuesday although weather may have it's say.

Back there on Wednesday and if needs be Thursday and then good luck to the white ball boys in the T20 finals day on Saturday in Birmingham.

Well done to the ex England batters Lyth, Unballanced and Bresnan. You did your county proud today.

Congratulations to Alastair Cook. Brilliant.

Looks like rain overnight and maybe up to 7-9 am Tuesday in Leeds but probably dull/fine thereafter. Could be very tricky batting in the morning, hopefully we wont lose too many and crack on in the afternoon. Wednesday & Thursday look brighter so there's every chance of a result one way or t'other- hopefully for the red rose.
I'll be following events in Leeds from the Oval where I'm hoping England can wrap things up by early afternoon.

156/3 with 15 minutes to go until Lunch ....

165 for 4 at lunch.
I still wouldn’t like to call it. Has the makings of a close game.

Five down now on 167

Timber

221-9 fine innings by Davies but not much support from the middle order,hope we can stretch this slim lead and then get some early wickets,wouldn't fancy chasing too many batting 4th.

Some late runs by Maharaj gets us to 252 and a lead of 43.
Some early wickets needed now.

Could be a handy last wicket stand of 31 with Maharaj hitting 38 from 26 balls including 3 sixes and 3 fours. A lead of 43 could be critical, depending on how well we bowl!

Maharaj took a liking to Bresnan the pie thrower, Yorks in trouble at 22 for 2.

CleggHall wrote:Maharaj took a liking to Bresnan the pie thrower, Yorks in trouble at 22 for 2.

Piechucker

Yorks 127 for 3 at close, a nice fight back, good old fashioned Roses match, all to play for tomorrow.

Hampshire won today so unlikely we can finish above them. Looks like two from Worcs, Yorks, Lancs for the drop now.
We have to win this roses match to be in with a decent chance of staying up but we'll need some very early wickets tomorrow or I'm afraid we'll be in Division 2 in 2019.

I'm meeting my Dad there tomorrow. Think we need some early wickets, wouldn't fancy us to chase 200 under pressure the way we've batted this summer.

LeadBelly wrote:Hampshire won today so unlikely we can finish above them. Looks like two from Worcs, Yorks, Lancs for the drop now.
We have to win this roses match to be in with a decent chance of staying up but we'll need some very early wickets tomorrow or I'm afraid we'll be in Division 2 in 2019.

Being optimistic from a Lancashire viewpoint,the morning session has brought wickets in this match,afternoon and the evening session seems to favour batting,we do need to break this partnership quickly tomorrow and see how the new batsman fares,

Booked my train tickets for tomorrow and give the Yorkies some stick.

Note for their members - don't pull the right hand doors.

If they go over 200 in front I can’t see us chasing it down.

Monday’s good work thrown away yesterday.

Lancs need 230 to win, must be favourites but could be close!

Tough call. Getable but in the circumstances (very important points to win for avoiding relegation; 4th innings of low scoring game) it'll take a lot of concentration/bottle to get there.
Good luck red roses.

CleggHall wrote:Lancs need 230 to win, must be favourites but could be close!

More than i would have liked but not out of the question,need a couple of the top-order to step up and score big.

38/2

49-2 Both openers gone cheaply. 181 more needed

66-3 Not looking good.

66-3 now