Lancashire face tough test
10:08pm Friday 30th July 2010 in Sport By Graham Hardcastle
Lancashire are on the back foot after two days of their LV= County Championship match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl.
The hosts had the better of the second day, replying to Lancashire’s 283 with 287-6 after 85 overs when bad light stopped play four overs early yesterday.
Opening batsman Jimmy Adams notched 72 off 158 balls, while Sean Ervine, Michael Lumb, James Vince and Neil McKenzie – the latter two both hit 33 – all chipped in.
Ervine scored 56 and Lumb 48, and Lancashire pair Gary Keedy and Glen Chapple returned 2-45 from 19 overs and 2-48 from 17, respectively.
Lancashire could only add 21 more runs to their overnight score of 262-8 yesterday morning, with Simon Kerrigan and Keedy both departing to Dominic Cork (4-57 from 24 overs).
Kerrigan fended a bouncer to Adams at third slip and Keedy played on trying to leave alone outside off stump. Sajid Mahmood finished 21 not out.
Chapple gave his side an ideal start to their bowling effort when he castled Michael Carberry in the first over of Hampshire’s innings, the left hander also shouldering arms.
But Adams – dropped on 18 by Luke Sutton off Tom Smith – and England’s World Twenty20 winner, Lumb, shared 117 for the second wicket to frustrate the visitors.
Lumb departed in the 36th over when he top-edged a pull to Kerrigan’s at long leg off Mahmood for 48.
Stephen Moore has been ruled out of the season with a dislocated right shoulder which will require surgery.
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