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RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 01-06-2021
Glamorgan v Lancashire Cardiff 3/6/21 to 6/6/21
The last one before almost a month of white ball stuff sees us go to Cardiff for the first time in a while. The wicket is a lot slower than at OT and we may have to be patient in this one, another win should almost guarentee a place in the top group in the end of season shut out.
A test event for spectators in Wales so apparently 1000 first day and none afterwards.
The Cardiff Wales Stadium, which is part of Sophia Gardens Cardiff (Welsh: Gerddi Soffia Caerdydd), is a cricket stadium in Cardiff, Wales. It is located in Sophia Gardens on the River Taff. It is home to Glamorgan County Cricket Club and is listed as an international Test cricket venue.The venue is home to Glamorgan County Cricket Club which has played its home matches there since 24 May 1967,[3] after moving away from Cardiff Arms Park. A 125-year lease of the ground was acquired in 1995, with the previous leaseholders, Cardiff Athletic Club, moving its cricket section (Cardiff Cricket Club) to the Diamond Ground in Whitchurch. Beside the cricket ground is the large sports hall complex of the Sport Wales National Centre. Cardiff Corinthians F.C. have previously used the area for football. In July 2007, Glamorgan cricketer Mike Powell was granted his wish to have a rib, removed during surgery, buried at the ground.[4]
The £9.4 million cost to redevelop stadium was funded by with approximately half (£4.5 million) being provided in the form of a Cardiff Council loan.[11] It is possible that the revamped stadium could host seven Test matches, nine One Day Internationals and two World Cup games up to 2028, injecting at least £50 million into the local economy.[12][13] Construction of the redevelopment of Sophia Gardens began in April 2007,[7] and the redeveloped stadium was first opened for competitive matches on 9 May 2008, when the Glamorgan Dragons played the Gloucestershire Gladiators in a Friends Provident Trophy match in which the Gladiators won by six wickets.[14]
On 4 March 2008, Glamorgan Cricket Club announced a 10-year sponsorship deal with SWALEC, thought to be the biggest single sponsorship by a county cricket club, giving SWALEC the naming rights to the new stadium, worth in excess of £1.5 million over 10 years.[15]
In June 2015, ahead of the First Test of the 2015 Ashes series, the stadium was renamed as simply "The SSE SWALEC" in reflection of the ownership of sponsors SWALEC by SSE plc.[16] The new logo from June 2015 was designed to reflect the shape of the stadium.[17] In April 2018 the stadium officially reverted to its traditional name of Sophia Gardens following the end of the sponsorship deal.[18]
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Glamorgan will welcome Lancashire, plus many of the Welsh county’s loyal members on the opening day, back to Sophia Gardens for their next contest in the LV=Insurance County Championship with the four-day contest scheduled to get underway at 1100 on Thursday 3rd June. (writes Andrew Hignell)
Lancashire are the leaders of group three following their innings victory on Sunday afternoon over Yorkshire at Emirates Old Trafford, with the Red Roses currently having 123 points and four victories to their credit this summer. Glamorgan are in fourth place with 80 points, although the Welsh county have been particularly affected by the rain and bad light during May, including the drawn contest between the two teams at the Manchester ground. In fact, Glamorgan’s total of 47.25 hours of lost playing time so far this summer in the County Championship is only surpassed by Somerset’s tally of 48.50 hours.
This will be Lancashire’s seventh visit to Sophia Gardens for a Championship match and their first since 1996 when an imperious 214 by Matthew Maynard saw Glamorgan to a mammoth total of 505 and underpinned a 48-run victory for Glamorgan with spin-twins Robert Croft claiming 5/47 and Dean Cosker 4/60 on the final day.
The Welsh county also won by four wickets in a rain-affected game at the Cardiff ground during August 1968 with an unbeaten 95 by Alan Jones seeing Glamorgan to their target of 178 inside 39 overs. Lancashire’s sole victory in Championship cricket at Sophia Gardens came in August 1981 when the Red Roses won by 66 runs after half-centuries by Clive Lloyd and Bernard Reidy, plus a return of 6/44by Peter Lee trumped career-best figures of 8/70 by Glamorgan’s off-spinner Barry Lloyd.
The contests between the two teams in 1967, 1970 and 1984 at Sophia Gardens all ended in draws. In contrast, Lancashire have been victorious on each of their last three visits to Wales – all staged at Colwyn Bay – winning by 14 runs in 2013, by an innings and 157 runs in 2015 and by an innings and 150 runs in 2019.
Glamorgan’s most recent Championship victory over Lancashire came at Liverpool during June 1997 when a fine 152 by Steve James plus an astonishing spell of 7/25 by Waqar Younis – who twice was on a hat-trick - saw Lancashire dismissed for a paltry 51 as the Welsh county won by 221 runs en route to lifting the county title.
Besides seeing the welcome return of Glamorgan supporters on the opening day of this game after an absence of over 600 days at Sophia Gardens, the contest could also be a red-letter one for several Glamorgan players including Michael Hogan, their evergreen seam bowler who celebrated his 40th birthday earlier this week, as well as club captain Chris Cooke and batsman Kiran Carlson.
Michael needs two further wickets to reach the outstanding landmark of 400 first-class wickets for his adopted county, whilst Chris is 49 runs short of taking his own tally of first-class runs for Glamorgan to 5,000. As far as Kiran is concerned, the renaissance man of Glamorgan cricket in 2021 currently has 552 first-class runs to his name and is 15 runs away from surpassing his best-ever seasonal tally of 567 runs, achieved in 2018.
RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 03-06-2021
Nineteen wickets fell on an incident-packed opening day against Glamorgan at Cardiff with the hosts on 150-9 at the close after bowling Lancashire out for 173.
Chris Cooke won the toss and put Lancashire in to bat on a wicket that offered assistance to the bowlers throughout with some variable bounce.
But after being dismissed by tea, Lancashire fought back, taking nine wickets during the evening session including five wickets in 11 overs after Glamorgan had made a bright start.
Openers David Lloyd and Joe Cooke raced away with 35 runs from the first six overs in their reply.
Saqib Mahmood stemmed the flow of runs when he nipped a delivery back into Lloyd’s stumps with the batsman offering no shot after making 21 off 20 balls but Cooke and Marnus Labuschagne had advanced the innings to 74-1 to put the hosts seemingly on top, just 99 runs behind.
Labuschagne, surprisingly struggling for runs this season with just 44 from six innings, survived some close calls off Luke Wood in particular before he started to prosper by striking four boundaries in fairly quick succession. But he was nearly run out on 32 when Kiran Carlson called for a quick single that saw his partner well short of his ground and relived the throw at the stumps just missed.
But it was a short-lived reprieve.
Carlson was at the crease because Tom Bailey had struck with two wickets in two balls, darting one in to bowl Joe Cooke for 14 and trapping Billy Root lbw first ball.
And Bailey soon claimed his third when trapping Carlson lbw for 12 to leave Glamorgan 92-4.
A great piece of fielding by Josh Bohannon, who took a sensational catch low down to his left at backward point, was responsible for a stunned Glamorgan skipper Chris Cooke departing for a duck off the bowling of Danny Lamb.
Then Lamb struck with arguably the biggest wicket when he trapped Labuschagne lbw for 44.
It meant Glamorgan at 102-6 had lost five wickets for 28 runs in 11 overs to put the game back in the balance.
And Dan Douthwaite added to the hosts’ woes when he pulled Mahmood to Wood at deep square leg to depart for 18 and was followed by James Weighell who edged Wood down the leg side to Vilas for 13 and Andrew Salter, lbw to Mahmood for 0.
In all the hosts had lost eight wickets for 71 runs with Mahmood taking 3-34 and Bailey 3-40.
Michael Neser (17 not out) and Michael Hogan (0 not out) will be at the crease in the morning when Glamorgan resume on 150-9, trailing by 23 runs.
When play got underway Glamorgan’s bowlers enjoyed a fine start, finding movement off the pitch with the odd delivery keeping low, to take four wickets in the morning as the Lancashire batsmen found it tricky going after being put in.
Keaton Jennings fell for 3 when Hogan brought one back to beat the opening batsman’s defence. Luke Wells was lbw for 10 after offering no shot to Weighell’s seventh delivery and Alex Davies mistimed a cut to be caught for 21 by Salter at point to give Weighell his second wicket.
Neser claimed the fourth wicket when he jagged a delivery away from Bohannon pushing forward, with wicketkeeper Chris Cooke catching the resultant nick to leave Lancashire on 74-4 at the break.
And Glamorgan struck a big double blow early in the afternoon to hammer home their advantage with two wickets in two balls.
Vilas became Michael Hogan’s 400th first-class wicket for Glamorgan when he got himself in tangle playing at a well-pitched up delivery to be lbw for 12 and Liam Livingstone followed for 17 from the next delivery when he edged Lloyd to wicketkeeper Chris Cooke standing up leaving Lancashire in trouble on 86-6.
Four boundaries by Wood (28) took the total past the hundred mark and he clipped Weighell over midwicket for six during the highest partnership of the innings, 36 runs for the 7th wicket with Lamb (12), before both departed lbw to Neser.
Bailey struck 5 fours in a positive innings of 31-the highest of the innings-and was last out as Lancashire posted their lowest first innings total since they also made 173 against Notts last year.
But then the Lancashire bowlers got to work.
RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 05-06-2021
Glamorgan 150 (Labuschagne 44) and 137 for 3 (Labuschagne 32*, Lloyd 41, Cooke 38) need 51 runs to beat Lancashire 173 (Bailey 31, Neser 3-46) and 164 (Davies 47, Neser 4-53)
15 wickets fell on the second day at Cardiff to follow 19 on the first, leaving Alex Davies, Lancashire's opener, to berate a "substandard" pitch that he claimed was "not good enough for four-day first-class cricket".
Glamorgan left themselves well-placed to complete a win after Lancashire, the happier of the two teams at the start of the day, collapsed to be bowled out for 164 in their second innings.
Joe Cooke and David Lloyd put on the highest stand of the match so far as Glamorgan reached the close at 137 for 3 with 51 runs needed for victory, leaving Lancashire staring down the prospect of a first defeat of the season.
"It's a substandard pitch," Davies, whose second-innings 47 was the highest score across the first two days, said at the close. "It is not a good enough pitch for four-day first-class cricket. I think that is quite evident with the scores. We've got 50 runs to play with tomorrow so we will come and fight for every run and try and beat them.
"We were also 130 for 3 before a couple of bad decisions came in - make of that what you will. We had a little collapse there with some wickets that were our fault and some that weren't, but ultimately we have to take responsibility for them. We've seen how badly that pitch can play so there's no reason why we can't get these seven wickets."
While Glamorgan will feel that victory is not too far away the regularity with which wickets have fallen in this match means that an unlikely Lancashire win cannot be ruled out.
Their first innings lasted just two balls on the second morning with Michael Hogan run out without any addition to the overnight score. A total of 150 all out gave Lancashire a lead of 23 on first innings and with the difficulty of run scoring throughout this game that seemed significant.
Throughout the Lancashire second innings batters were once again getting out almost as soon as it looked like they were set with Davies making the only significant contribution.
Lancashire had taken the lead to 132 when that dramatic collapse of 5 for 15 set them back. This period included two fantastic fielding moments. First Michael Neser took an outstanding diving catch at third man to dismiss Liam Livingstone, who was aiming for somewhere over the midwicket boundary. Then Marnus Labuschagne ran out Luke Wood, who had yet to face a ball, with a direct hit from cover point.
Lancashire had gone from 109 for 3 to 124 for 8 but thanks to some late-order runs from Saqib Mahmood and Danny Lamb they managed to reach 164 all out, setting Glamorgan 188 runs to win. Neser was the pick of the Glamorgan bowlers, claiming 4 for 53.
This left Glamorgan with the task of making the highest total of this match to secure victory, but the stand of 72 between Cooke and Lloyd made that look achievable. Cooke made a career-best 38 as the bowlers struggled to find wickets for the first time in this match. Both were dismissed before the close, but Labuschagne was 32 not out and Kiran Carlson was unbeaten on 14.
"It's been a strange game," Neser said. "I feel we're on top at the moment, but there's plenty of cricket still to go. At times the batters have been dominant but all of a sudden wickets fall in clumps so we've got to be wary about that."
"It would be great to be the first team to beat Lancashire, especially at our home ground which would make it even sweeter."
RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 05-06-2021
Glamorgan 150 (Labuschagne 44) and 188 for 4 (Labuschagne 63*, Lloyd 41) beat Lancashire 173 (Bailey 31, Neser 3-46) and 164 (Davies 47, Neser 4-53) by six wickets
Lancashire suffered their first defeat of the 2021 LV=Insurance County Championship season as Glamorgan wrapped up a six-wicket victory on the third morning in Cardiff.
While wickets had tumbled on the first two days of this match just one fell on the third as an undefeated fifty from Marnus Labuschagne guided Glamorgan to what ended up being a straightforward win.
Despite this loss, Lancashire remain top of Group 3 but Yorkshire have the chance to close that gap in their ongoing game against Sussex. Meanwhile, the win takes Glamorgan to 99 points to move above Northamptonshire into third place, albeit temporarily.
Kiran Carlson was the only wicket to fall when he attempted a pull shot off Luke Wood that he top edged high in the air. Any number of fielders could have claimed the catch but it was Dane Vilas who took the chance.
Having struggled in his first four matches of this season, Labuschagne finished on 63 not out. Having made 44 in the first innings he was the highest-scoring batsman in the match and Glamorgan will be pleased to see their high-profile overseas player finding form.
At the close on the second day, Alex Davies, the Lancashire opener, had branded the pitch as "substandard" after 15 wickets fell for the day and 19 on the first.
It wasn't easy going for Glamorgan in the opening overs of the third day. The Lancashire bowlers regularly found the edge of the bat but with such a small total to defend there was rarely a catching fielder to take advantage and when there was the ball didn't carry.
Lancashire continued to search for wickets, even trying Tom Bailey's off-spin in the hope finding a breakthrough which would not come. Labuschagne hit the winning runs as Glamorgan needed just 68 minutes to knock off the required target on the third day.
"This morning it was key for us not to lose back-to-back wickets," Labuschagne said. "Losing one was alright, but we needed to make sure that we consolidated and built a partnership. We were only two 20-to-30-run partnerships away from winning.
"We felt like we probably underperformed in that first innings, we had a few soft dismissals and I think on the back of that they just got back-to-back wickets and I felt like we probably should have got around 200.
"But to do it the fourth innings when the ball has gone reverse, which is exciting to play against because it is something we don't get much of in Australia in domestic cricket, to get through that period and to build a partnership [worth 42] with Chris Cooke to get to the end was very satisfying."
Glen Chapple, Lancashire head coach, described the game as "difficult".
"We lost the toss which meant for a difficult first session, I think that had a bearing on the game, it was a tough toss to lose," Chapple said. "The pitch was difficult to play on. It was difficult for the batsman to get in on and ultimately we have come up short.
"From our perspective we move on now. We've had a really good start to the year. Glamorgan are a good side, they have made two fantastic overseas signings which has really strengthened them and they are difficult side to play against. So they take the credit for this and they take the win.
"We know we could do things differently but that's experience. We don't often play on difficult pitches like this at Old Trafford so it is one of those challenges."
RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 12-06-2021
Davies, Bohannon, Hurt, Wells and Gleeson in the dock over Tweets going back as far as 2011, the Lancashire Hierarchy are now looking if any players had any relatives who were found guilty as witches in the 18th Century as they want to leave no stone unturned
RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 03-07-2021
Lancashire could be qualified for the late summer top group come the middle of next week.
The top two sides from each of the three groups advancing to challenge for the County Championship title in late August and through September.
Lancashire are top of Group Three, 16 points clear of Northamptonshire in third place with two rounds remaining.
Northants host second placed Yorkshire at Wantage Road. That means someone, if not both teams will drop points, and a win should seal qualification.
The Red Rose will be bidding for their fifth win of the season in nine games, with one of those wins coming against Kent at Canterbury by an innings at the end of April.
A repeat would do very nicely!
Team news: Lancashire are hopeful Jimmy Anderson will be made available as he prepares for England’s forthcoming Test series against India, starting early next month.
Anderson played in two Championship games prior to England’s early summer Test series against New Zealand, though he didn’t bowl in the rainy draw against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road. Mind you, no Red Rose bowler did given only 34.3 overs were bowled in the game.
Liam Livingstone played in Lancashire’s last Championship game, the three-day defeat against Glamorgan at Cardiff early last month. But he is now away with England’s one-day international squad.
Josh Bohannon has not played any cricket for the last fortnight having suffered a side strain playing second-team cricket, though he is back in training.
Opponents: Kent may be in contention for the quarter-finals in the Vitality Blast having played some excellent T20 cricket over the last month, but they have had a nightmare campaign in the Championship.
They sit second bottom of Group Three with no wins from eight games, losing three of those.
Coach Matt Walker and co are one of only two counties yet to win a Championship game this summer, with Derbyshire who are bottom of Group One being the other.
All three defeats came back-to-back in April and were hammering as well!
They lost to Yorkshire at home by 200 runs, to Lancashire at home by an innings and five and then by 10 wickets to Glamorgan at Cardiff.
In a rain-affected home game against Glamorgan in late May, Kent were in more trouble at 128-8 before Darren Stevens whacked 190 off 149 balls to recover them.
Wicketkeepers Ollie Robinson and Jordan Cox are their leading Championship run-scorers with 534 and 434 respectively. Robinson takes the gloves in Championship cricket, while Cox has taken them in the Blast recently.
But 45-year-old all-rounder Stevens has been their outstanding player in Championship cricket this year. He has scored 423 runs in the middle order and has taken 26 with his seamers.
That is the same number of wickets as Lancashire’s leading Championship wicket-taker Tom Bailey.
England Test batsman Zak Crawley will play his eighth Championship game of the season. He is yet to score a century this summer.
South African overseas batsman Heino Kuhn has only played two Championship games so far this season.
Zimbabwe-born 20-year-old batsman Tawenda Muyeye is one to watch.
This is his first season as a professional having been named as Wisden’s Schools Cricketer of the Year following some standout performances at Eastbourne College in Sussex. He and his family have successfully sought asylum in the UK, and his ambition is to play for England.
Kent drew their last Championship match against Northamptonshire at Canterbury at the start of June. Batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond will be their captain.
Previous meeting: Lancashire claimed their second win in three games against Kent at Canterbury in April, with star leg-spinner Matthew Parkinson taking a superb second-innings career best 7-126.
The Red Rose’s innings and five-run victory, after tea on day four on an attritional pitch, was set up by a first-innings 525.
Remarkably, Lancashire were in early bother at 85-4 having been inserted and later on day one 248-7. But Danny Lamb and Luke Wood shared a new Red Rose record eighth-wicket partnership of 187.
Lamb top-scored with 125, reaching his century with a six, while Wood made 119.
Tom Bailey then claimed four wickets as Kent replied with only 169, only for the hosts - following on - to recover and begin day four on 209-1.
Needing 147 more to avoid an innings defeat, they encountered a never say die bowling performance from Parkinson and his colleagues.
Josh Bohannon made a crucial early breakthrough to bowl Daniel Bell-Drummond for 114 before Parkinson took on the main role.
Having struck on day three, he added six more wickets, alongside two for Lamb, as the hosts were bowled out for 351 in the final session of the game to give Lancashire a 21-point haul.
Parkinson, for his 7-126, bowled 52 overs in the second innings.
What they said: One win should do it for Lancashire, but they will certainly not be easing up if that were to come against Kent this week.
Only four games are played in the second group phase, and you don’t play the team you have qualified through your initial group with.
Lancashire and Yorkshire are currently the top two sides the group, and points from the two group games are carried.
The ruling is half the aggregate points between the two games.
So, Lancashire claimed 22 points to Yorkshire’s one from the victory in May. And the two sides meet at Headingley in the final round next week.
So if Lancashire repeated that 22 to one haul, they would carry 22 points through to the second phase and Yorkshire one.
So even if qualification is clinched against Kent, that Roses fixture remains incredibly important.
“We want to take maximum points off them, and we certainly won’t be easing off if we beat Kent,” said fast bowler Saqib Mahmood.
“Some of the boys have had a red ball net this week.
“We haven’t focused too hard on Kent yet because of the T20 stuff. But we’re back here at Emirates Old Trafford, where we play good cricket.”
Mahmood picked up a side strain trying to wrestle a victory from the jaws of defeat last time out against Glamorgan at Cardiff. He missed the early stages of the Vitality Blast, but he’s since returned to action.
It is a defeat - their only one of the season - that Lancashire won’t be dwelling on.
“The Glamorgan game was a bit of a lottery with the pitch down there. 19 wickets fell on day one,” added Mahmood.
“The difference in that game was Marnus Labuschagne, the number three Test batsman in the world.
“When you lose a game to someone like that, you can accept it that bit
more.”
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Kent travel to Manchester to face Lancashire in an LV= Insurance County Championship Group 3 match in the midst of Vitality Blast fixtures at Emirates Old Trafford.
Despite multiple victories in the shorter form of the game, Kent will be searching for their first Championship win of 2021, with weather dampening many chances of victories in the competition to date.
Darren Stevens leads Kent with the ball so far in the first-class game this season, also with 423 runs at 47.00 alongside his 26 wickets at 19.65.
‘Keeper-batter Ollie Robinson tops first-class run charts for the county with 534 in eight innings at 44.50, whilst Matt Quinn, fresh from the announcement the right armer will be a Kent player on a permanent basis from next season, has 12 wickets at 19.33.
Opposition Report
Lancashire are currently top of Group 3 with four wins from eight Championship matches so far.
Josh Bohannon currently has the most runs for the Red Rose county with 471 at 52.33, whilst ‘keeper Alex Davies has 448 runs to his name.
With the ball, Tom Bailey, Matt Parkinson and Saqib Mahmood all have over 20 wickets for Lancashire so far in first-class cricket in 2021.
Last time out
Kent drew their LV= Insurance County Championship match with Northamptonshire, despite an engrossing final day at Canterbury.
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An obdurate Adam Rossington eventually steered the visitors to safety with an unbeaten 59, but only after a brave declaration by the home side on their overnight score of 335 for five, when they were still 62 runs behind.
Nathan Gilchrist took three for 57 and Darren Stevens two for 42 as the hosts scented an unlikely Group Three victory, only for the game to drift away in the final session, Northamptonshire finishing on 184 for eight declared.
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Lancashire vs. Kent will be streamed and embedded into the Match Centre on the Kent Cricket website, with pictures coming via Lancashire CCC.
Team News
Miguel Cummins has completed his overseas spell as a Kent player and has now left the Club.
After re-joining the Club on loan with a permanent deal confirmed from the 2022 season, Matt Quinn is included in Kent’s travelling squad of 13.
Daniel Bell-Drummond has a thumb injury and is unavailable for this match, and with Sam Billings away on England duty, Joe Denly will captain the side.
Harry Podmore has recovered from his side strain injury, and James Logan could make his Kent first-class debut,
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RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 04-07-2021
Day 1 abandoned
RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 05-07-2021
Kent 31-7 Jimmy 6-10 at the moment now taken 1001 wickets
RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 06-07-2021
Lancashire 108 for 5 (Davies 47) lead Kent 74 (Anderson 7-19) by 34 runs
History was made during an astonishing afternoon of cricket at Emirates Old Trafford as Lancashire's James Anderson claimed both his 1,000th first class wicket and his best career bowling figures of 7 for 19.
Anderson's exploits ensured Kent were dismissed for just 74 in a shade over two hours after the players finally took to the field at 2pm on the second day, following almost incessant rain throughout the first four sessions of the game.
Taking the new ball Anderson, 38, took a wicket in each of his first three overs, before adding four more as Kent's top order were blown away in an extraordinary spell from the Burnley-born bowler, whose previous best figures were his 7 for 42 for England against West Indies in 2017.
The wickets of Zak Crawley, edging to Rob Jones at second slip without scoring, Jordan Cox, edging to Luke Wells at first slip for 1 and Ollie Robinson, feathering one through to wicketkeeper Dane Vilas for 0, were near-identical examples of Anderson's mastery of seam bowling, and reduced Kent to 5 for 3.
Jack Leaning became Anderson's 999th victim when he edged to Jones for 2 before the stage was set for South African Heino Kuhn to become England's leading Test wicket taker's 1,000th scalp, 19 years after Surrey's Ian Ward became his first.
Typically, Anderson didn't stop there, taking his sixth wicket with the dismissal of Matt Milnes in his next over for 1 as Vilas claimed another catch after Danny Lamb spoilt Anderson's chances of a 10-for by trapping Joe Denly in front for 12.
Anderson's seventh wicket arrived in the 17th over with Vilas taking his fourth catch off the veteran bowler to dismiss Harry Podmore for 3. That left Kent 34 for 8 and looking every inch a side without a win in the LV= Insurance County Championship this season.
Only 45-year-old Darren Stevens offered any kind of resistance, bashing four boundaries in his knock of 19 before Lamb had him caught at mid-off with the same bowler also accounting for James Logan who became the last wicket to fall for 11.
Both Lamb's 3 for 16 and Vilas' five catches were of course overshadowed by Anderson's efforts and he received a standing ovation from the ecstatic crowd as he walked off as only the 13th Lancashire bowler to complete the feat of 1,000 first-class wickets and becoming the first fast bowler to do it since Ken Higgs in 1968, and the first of any Red Rose bowler since Jack Simmons in 1988.
With many observers still confused by Kent's decision to bat first, Lancashire's openers entered the fray after tea and quickly looked like they were playing a different game.
Alex Davies was his usual busy self, scampering singles and hitting five fours and a six in his 43-ball 47 as he compiled an opening stand of 64 with Keaton Jennings before mistiming a cut shot off Matt Quinn through to Jordan Cox at first slip.
More late drama was to follow as Jennings and Luke Wells fell in consecutive balls to Quinn and Milnes, with Vilas departing soon after to Stevens before Josh Bohannon was bowled by Kent debutant Logan to leave the hosts 108 for 5 at the close.
RE: Lancashire 2021 - themaclad - 06-07-2021
Lancashire 259 for 9 (Wood 63*, Jones 47, Davies 47) lead Kent 74 (Anderson 7-19) by 185 runs
A precious unbeaten half century from Lancashire all-rounder Luke Wood set up a potentially match-winning total at Emirates Old Trafford with Kent going into the final day of a rain-affected match trailing by 185 runs after the hosts closed on 259 for 9.
Wood batted superbly throughout the majority of a third day which saw 51 overs sent down by an increasingly frustrated bowling attack unable to take advantage of the home side's precarious position at the start of play.
Both teams were forced to make changes following the overnight news that England's entire ODI squad was to be replaced, Lancashire's Matt Parkinson and Kent's Zak Crawley both heading south to Bristol as a result.
No play was possible until deep into the afternoon and it was 3pm when Steven Croft and Rob Jones strode out with Lancashire 108 for 5 and clutching a slender lead of 34 runs.
Just nine runs had been added when Croft shouldered arms to a lovely nip-backer from Darren Stevens and turned around in shock to see it had clipped his off stump.
Wood came in to join Jones and the seventh-wicket pair began a mission to extinguish any hopes Kent might have had of keeping the lead to a manageable margin. By tea the hosts were 155 for 6 and looking secure with a priceless 50 partnership coming up soon after the interval.
Jones was three short of his half-century when the impressive James Logan got one to spin sharply and induce an edge to Stevens at slip, ending a stand of 69 runs that had taken the lead to 112.
Logan quickly added another when Danny Lamb top-edged to Stevens for 2, but the incoming Tom Hartley, who replaced the England-bound Parkinson, was able to give valuable support to Wood who brought up his half-century from 98 balls as Lancashire's lead tipped over the 150 mark.
Batting with freedom against the spin of Logan, Jack Leaning and Joe Denly, the ninth-wicket pair brought up their 50 partnership with five overs left and had extended the Red Rose's lead to 174 when Hartley was caught at second slip by Jordan Cox off Matt Quinn for a useful 24.
As if to emphasise Lancashire's dominance, the final over of the day saw man of the moment James Anderson hit two boundaries off Stevens to finish unbeaten on eight with Wood closing on 63 not out.