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260-6 Lancs half centuries for Brown and Hameed plus useful knocks from Davies and McLaren

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Notts win by 7 wickets with three overs to spare Patel 103* Mullaney 77* think that is us out of the RLC

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Durham v Lancashire @ The Riverside

Lancashire remain in the hunt for a knockout berth in the Royal London One-Day Cup as they head to fellow challengers Durham for their final North Group fixture tomorrow.

The Lightning and the Jets are two of four teams who can secure third place in the group and with it an away tie against second in the South next month.

The winners of that would then advance to the semi-final.

The other teams involved in the race for third are third-placed Nottinghamshire and fifth-placed Leicestershire.

Notts are in third on eight points from seven games, Durham are in fourth on seven from seven, Leicester are fifth with seven from seven and Lancashire are sixth with six from seven.

Lancashire must beat Durham at Emirates Riverside to eliminate them from the race, also hoping Notts lose at Northants and Leicester lose at Yorkshire.

That would see the Red Rose through given their superior net run-rate over Notts.

Most wins comes first when separating teams finishing with equal points. If all results go Lancashire’s way, they would be on the same points as Notts with the same number of wins.

Then it is down to net run-rate, and Lancashire’s is better.

All tomorrow’s final North Group fixtures begin at 2pm.

Cannot beat a Tuesday night fixture under the lights in the North East forthose going take plenty of warm clothing you'll need it

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Lancs 304-8
Davies 50
Vilas 108

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Won by 29 runs didn't qualify though

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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

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Yorkshire 251-6 (96 overs)
Ballance 74
Leaning 54 not out

Sounds like an old fashioned day of cricket no gimmes

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Yorkshire 421-7 Leaning 118 and Brooks 94 both still in means we are not winning this one and with Anderson and Jarvis injured means we will not be bowling a side out twice in the near future

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Paid a visit to Stalag Old Trafford, not my most favourite of corporate cricket grounds, can safely say I will be only one of about 2000 people on the earth to say I saw Jack Brooks complete a century doubt whether it will happen again.
Advantage very much with Yorkshire despite Shiv's century.
Lancs needing 35 to avoid the folow on with zilch batting left apart from McClaren. Wicket turning a bit although as Rashid not playing don't think Rafiq will whizz through Lancs a second time. Suspect a draw but a Yorkshire win cannot be ruled out.

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Lancs avoid follow on so basically baring a miracle this match is a draw

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A draw it is which is probably the result Lancs wanted after losing both strike bowlers, a unbeaten century for Hanscomb and an unbeaten 50 for Lees. McLaren made 84 for Lancs.
Yorks 448-8 and 177-1
Lancs 442
Lancs 10 pts Yorks 9 points
Lancs third in table