18-05-2017, 19:48
Lancashire V Yorkshire @ Old Trafford 19/5/2017 to 22/5/2017 County Championship Division 1
Lancashire welcome the old enemy to Emirates Old Trafford tomorrow with the chance to go top of the Specsavers County Championship table.
Attention switches from 50-over to four-day cricket after three weeks away.
Although the Red Rose did not qualify for the knockout stages of the Royal London one-day Cup, they are in confident mood having won four out of their last five matches, including Tuesday’s clash at Durham when Dane Vilas scored a fine century.
The Red Rose have impressed in Championship cricket this year.
They were on top throughout the majority of each of their first two away games against Essex and Surrey, only to be denied wins.
Then, that win did come in their most recent fixture at the end of last month against Somerset at Emirates Old Trafford when they superbly recovered from being bowled out for 109 in the first innings to win by 164 runs.
It means they sit second in the Division One table, unbeaten and four points behind leaders Surrey and five clear of fourth placed Yorkshire.
Yorkshire have lost one, won one and drawn one as part of a mixed start to the new season.
They lost their opener to Hampshire at Headingley before drawing their most recent match with the same opponents at the Ageas Bowl.
Sandwiched in between, they hammered struggling Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
Yorkshire have the leading run-scorer in the country in the form of new captain Gary Ballance.
He has scored 1,027 runs in 14 innings across all cricket, including 508 from five in the Championship.
They also have the joint Championship leading wicket-taker in the country in Ben Coad, who has 22 from three matches. That is more than anyone else in Division One and matches Kent’s Darren Stevens in Division Two.
Yorkshire will be without their five England players due to one-day international commitments.
But they will be able to call upon fit again seamers Ryan Sidebottom and Jack Brooks for the first time this season having recovered from late winter hamstring and calf injuries.
The White Rose have not lost a four-day fixture against Lancashire since July 2011.
LAST TIME OUT
Lancashire importantly had the better of a high-scoring draw at Emirates Old Trafford last August as they later avoided relegation, while Yorkshire missed out on a hat-trick of Championship titles.
Lancashire posted 494 in their first innings and took a lead of 134.
They then declared their second innings on 232-3 and set Yorkshire a target of 367 before lunch on day four.
Haseeb Hameed broke records with two hundreds in the match. He scored 114 and 100.
The 19-year-old went beyond 1,000 runs for the season, becoming the youngest Englishman in first-class cricket to ever achieve that feat.
He also became the first Lancastrian to score two hundreds in a Roses match.
Yorkshire easily saw out day four at 188-0, with Alex Lees also scoring a century.
Glen Chapple has named a 14 man squad for Lancashire's Specsavers County Championship Roses clash against Yorkshire, starting tomorrow at Emirates Old Trafford
Kyle Jarvis has been ruled out after fracturing his left thumb in training this morning, whilst Jordan Clark continues to receive treatment on an on-going back injury.
Lancashire Squad
Steven Croft ©, James Anderson, Tom Bailey, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Alex Davies, Haseeb Hameed, Simon Kerrigan, Danny Lamb, Liam Livingstone, Ryan McLaren, Stephen Parry, Luke Procter, Rob Jones, Dane Vilas
Lancashire welcome the old enemy to Emirates Old Trafford tomorrow with the chance to go top of the Specsavers County Championship table.
Attention switches from 50-over to four-day cricket after three weeks away.
Although the Red Rose did not qualify for the knockout stages of the Royal London one-day Cup, they are in confident mood having won four out of their last five matches, including Tuesday’s clash at Durham when Dane Vilas scored a fine century.
The Red Rose have impressed in Championship cricket this year.
They were on top throughout the majority of each of their first two away games against Essex and Surrey, only to be denied wins.
Then, that win did come in their most recent fixture at the end of last month against Somerset at Emirates Old Trafford when they superbly recovered from being bowled out for 109 in the first innings to win by 164 runs.
It means they sit second in the Division One table, unbeaten and four points behind leaders Surrey and five clear of fourth placed Yorkshire.
Yorkshire have lost one, won one and drawn one as part of a mixed start to the new season.
They lost their opener to Hampshire at Headingley before drawing their most recent match with the same opponents at the Ageas Bowl.
Sandwiched in between, they hammered struggling Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
Yorkshire have the leading run-scorer in the country in the form of new captain Gary Ballance.
He has scored 1,027 runs in 14 innings across all cricket, including 508 from five in the Championship.
They also have the joint Championship leading wicket-taker in the country in Ben Coad, who has 22 from three matches. That is more than anyone else in Division One and matches Kent’s Darren Stevens in Division Two.
Yorkshire will be without their five England players due to one-day international commitments.
But they will be able to call upon fit again seamers Ryan Sidebottom and Jack Brooks for the first time this season having recovered from late winter hamstring and calf injuries.
The White Rose have not lost a four-day fixture against Lancashire since July 2011.
LAST TIME OUT
Lancashire importantly had the better of a high-scoring draw at Emirates Old Trafford last August as they later avoided relegation, while Yorkshire missed out on a hat-trick of Championship titles.
Lancashire posted 494 in their first innings and took a lead of 134.
They then declared their second innings on 232-3 and set Yorkshire a target of 367 before lunch on day four.
Haseeb Hameed broke records with two hundreds in the match. He scored 114 and 100.
The 19-year-old went beyond 1,000 runs for the season, becoming the youngest Englishman in first-class cricket to ever achieve that feat.
He also became the first Lancastrian to score two hundreds in a Roses match.
Yorkshire easily saw out day four at 188-0, with Alex Lees also scoring a century.
Glen Chapple has named a 14 man squad for Lancashire's Specsavers County Championship Roses clash against Yorkshire, starting tomorrow at Emirates Old Trafford
Kyle Jarvis has been ruled out after fracturing his left thumb in training this morning, whilst Jordan Clark continues to receive treatment on an on-going back injury.
Lancashire Squad
Steven Croft ©, James Anderson, Tom Bailey, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Alex Davies, Haseeb Hameed, Simon Kerrigan, Danny Lamb, Liam Livingstone, Ryan McLaren, Stephen Parry, Luke Procter, Rob Jones, Dane Vilas
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