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An interesting nugget from Mike Daniels:
“Apropos of Ethan Bamber, I net a bit at Edgbaston in the winter and over the past few years the Bears player you’d see most often doing individual practice has been Chris Woakes.
“This winter it was Ethan Bamber and if he’s gaining rewards now then he fully deserves to seeing how he put the hours in during the winter.”
This used to be Logan van Beek chatting with the ECB’s newshounds’s community the day past in regards to the Grace Road terror monitor:
“With the divots in the pitch and the grass a bit longer this time, towards the end of the day it created a bit more havoc. As a batter, trying to find ways to score is tough and credit to them they bowled really well. So we’re just happy to have been there at the end and tomorrow every run is going to be crucial.
“The first hour after the heavy roller has been on the pitch as a bowler you feel you aren’t doing that much, but once you get work into the ball and divots start to appear you start to get more movement. And what we did well was that we stopped them going anywhere in terms of putting on runs, and then when we got one wicket, we’d get three or four in a hurry.
“It is the kind of pitch where as a batter there is always a ball with your name on it, which just shows what a good hundred it was that Rishi scored yesterday.”
Leicestershire have already misplaced Ian Holland however van Beek and Green have added every other handful of runs – Leics 120-7, a lead of 233.
Fans are scattered across the sunny aspect round Old Trafford like handfuls of Quality Street from a not up to beneficiant aunt. Saqib Mahmood is charging in from the Jimmy Anderson finish, George Balderson from the Statham finish.
A wicket at the batting paradise this is Southampon – Mark Stoneman for 57.
I went to peer Hamlet Hail to the Thief remaining night time and beloved it. Big counsel whether or not or now not you’re a Radiohead fan – on in Manchester until May 18 or in Stratford upon Avon in June.
Saturday’s round-up
There used to be a status ovation for Joe Root from the Headingley trustworthy for an innings of fan-favourite pictures. After a sketchy one on Friday, his 90 with Yorkshire at the again foot used to be simply the warm-up Dr McCullum may have ordered. Root used to be Ethan Bamber’s 8th wicket within the fit, a bowler thriving after a wintry weather transfer from Middlesex to Warwickshire.
There used to be additionally excellent information for England enthusiasts of a fearful disposition from Lord’s, the place Zak Crawley knitted a 3rd second-innings fifty in 3 video games, albeit after being dropped on 3. It used to be a diligent innings, with Kent trailing by way of 109 on first innings, however nonetheless contained the trademark imperious drives ahead of he used to be out lbw to Dane Paterson for the second one time within the fit.
Tawanda Muyeye and Jack Leaning flickered in short however the innings constructed itself round Daniel Bell-Drummond, a captain who has now not discovered runs simple to return by way of this season. But his unbeaten 103, his first red-ball hundred in additional than a 12 months, inched Kent to a lead of 117 ahead of dangerous gentle stopped play. Middlesex previous misplaced their remaining six wickets for 61, with a moment successive fifty for Ryan Higgins.
Jordan Cox used to be every other England participant to settle well into shape, with a rollicking 61 now not out at Taunton as Essex eased right into a dominant place, amassing a lead of 224 in a low-scoring sport. Somerset had misplaced 9 wickets for 99 in one among their trademark collapses, trousers falling down concurrently their blouse buttons pinged off. Simon Harmer fortunately stepped into Jack Leach’s boots, reeling thru 19 overs and taking 4 for 43 from the River End. Their No 10, Migael Pretorius, used to be the second-highest scorer with a boisterous 24.
Manchester’s clouds settled into their common place above Old Trafford on an afternoon when the coat returned to a cricket watcher’s backpack. Friday’s centurion Marcus Harris used to be out after including simply a few runs to his in a single day 165, enjoying directly to the zippy Ajeet Singh Dale, however some helpful contributions down the order took Lancashire to 450 – extra batting issues than that they had amassed in general within the earlier 3 video games.
Tom Price grabbed the remaining two wickets in successive balls, leaving him to start out the following innings on a hat-trick, whilst the not-out batter Tom Bailey led to a stir of his personal when his cell phone fell out of his pocket mid-run. Gloucestershire complex, moderately to start with, after which with extra abandon, as Ollie Price and Myles Hammond put in combination an unbeaten hundred partnership.
Graham Clark, now not within the Durham XI on Friday morning till younger Ben McKinney had a again spasm, persisted to clutch his likelihood, shifting to a career-best 160 on an excellent batting floor at Southampton. He used to be out to an spry stuck and bowled by way of Wisden Cricketer of the Year Liam Dawson, who pocketed 5 for 158. Mark Stoneman made a gritty unbeaten 54 in Hampshire’s answer.
Glamorgan had a dominant day towards Derbyshire, passing 400 runs after which lowering Derbyshire to 215 for seven with 4 wickets for Andy Gorvin.
It used to be a topsy-turvy day at Grace Road. But Ben Sanderson, in his first fit of the season after knee issues limited his look, then went during the Leicestershire best 5.
It used to be a topsy-turvy day at Grace Road. First Northants had been bowled out for 191, with 4 wickets for Logan van Beek. Then Leicestershire collapsed like an empty chip bag – Ben Sanderson, in his first fit of the season after knee issues, operating during the Leicestershire best 5.
Scores at the doorways
DIVISION ONE
Southampton: Hampshire 112-1 v Durham 511
Taunton: Somerset 145 v Essex 206 and 163-4
Headingley: Yorkshire 205 and 232 v Warwickshire 253 and 15-0 Warwicks want 170 to win
DIVISION TWO
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 431 v Derbyshire 215-7
Old Trafford: Lancashire 450 v Gloucestershire 184-2
Grace Road: Leicestershire 304 and 96-6 v Northamptonshire 191
Lord’s: Middlesex 238 v Kent 129 and 226-4
Preamble
Hello! From a brilliant however brisk Manchester. We are nonetheless with out rain and the Mersey is operating uncharacteristically low, regardless that it didn’t hassle the gorgeous mandarin duck that used to be serenely paddling alongside this morning. We’re heading into day 3 of this 5th Championship around, with all seven video games nonetheless in play – regardless that issues glance certain to wrap up at Headingley, at Lord’s, and at Grace Road.
Play begins at 11am, do drop in for a talk.
