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[S_Harmison]

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Lancashire County Cricket Club Season 2005/2006

Frizzell County Championship: Division 2

Totesport League: Division 1

Division 2:

1) Worchestershire
2) Lancashire
3) Northamptonshire
4) Somerset
5) Essex
6) Leicestershire
7) Yorkshire
8) Derbyshire
9) Durham

Division 1:

1) Glamorgan Dragons
2) Lancashire Lightning
3) Hampshire Hawks
4) Northamptonshire Steelbacks
5) Gloucestershire Gladiators
6) Essex Eagles
7) Middlesex Crusaiders
8) Worchestershire Royals
9) Notinghamshire Outlaws

Preliminary Round:

Leicestershire Vs Yorkshire

and

Somerset Vs Gloucestershire

North:

Leicestershire Foxes
Lancashire Lightning
Derbyshire Phantoms
Nottinghamshire Outlaws
Durham Dynamos
Yorkshire Phoenix

Midlands/Wales/West:

Glamorgan Dragons
Worcestershire Royals
Warwickshire Bears
Somerset Sabres
Gloucestershire Gladiators
Northamptonshire Steelbacks

South:

Surrey Lions
Hampshire Hawks
Essex Eagles
Kent Spitfires
Middlesex Crusaders
Sussex Sharks

The top two teams from each group will go through to the Quarter Finals, allong with the two best placed teams who finished third.


Teams who finish first place in their group plus the best second placed team earn the right to host the quarter final match at their home ground.

The Finals Day will be held at Edgbaston.

Sixes League

Totesport League and Twenty20 Cup Sixes will be added together here, There will be a winner each Month and an overall winner at the end of the Season.


Wish me luck


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[S_Harmison]

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Frizzel County Championship Divison's 1 and 2 Round-up:

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Division 1

Rose Bowl

Hampshire Vs Gloucestershire

Hampshire won by 98 runs

J.Crawly top scored for Hampshire over the two innings with 59 runs before being bowled by J.Averis.

J.Averis also took 6/50 in the Hampshires second inning from 20 overs including 2 maidens.

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Division 1

Edgbaston

Warwickshire Vs Glamorgan

Glamorgan won by 374 runs

M.Elliot got Glamorgan of to a great start as he ended the opening innings on 143 not out becoming the first centurian of the domestic county season.

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Division 1

The Oval

Surrey Vs Sussex

Sussex won by 104 runs

Surrey were bowled out for 98 in their first innings with Mark Butcher top scoring (23) and M.Bicknell producing best bowling figures of 4/38 from 23.2 overs with 8 maidens.

M.Bicknell also proved a thorn in Surrey?s side when he took 6/93 in their second innings.

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Division 2

The County Ground

Derbyshire Vs Worchestershire

Derbyshire won by 292 runs

Worchestershire were bowled out for 57 after 21 overs in their first innings, Graham Welch and Kevin Dean both picked up four wickets each.

John Moss was the hero in Derbyshire?s second innings making 89 at the top of the order before being dismissed by Kabir Ali who ended with figures of 6/86 in that innings.

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Division 2

Grace Road

Leicestershire Vs Durham

Match Drawn

Danesh Mongia and A.Habib both scored centuries in Leicestershire?s first innings making 105 and 103 respectively.

Mongia went on to make 159 in the second innings making him the first to score back to back centuries in each innings of a county championship match this season.

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Division 2

Chelmsford

Essex Vs Yorkshire

Essex won by 9 wickets

Michael Vaughan came close to his century as he made 92 before Tudor dismissed him. Darren Gough claimed his first 5 wicket haul of the campaign also.

Vaughan finished Yorkshires second innings on 74 not out, he could have followed in Danesh Mongia?s footsteps had the men around him not crumbled away.


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Next Match;

Lancashire Vs Somerset

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[duffarama]

I can't wait until this season gets under way mate. Good luck.

 

[gold639]

Good presentation mate

This will be an interesting story to follow

 

[S_Harmison]

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Frizzel County Championship Division 2:

Old Trafford
Lancashire Vs Somerset

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As the stadium started to fill up the two captains made there way out into the middle for the toss, joined by the umpires and the Chairman Mr J.Simmons MBE. The coin was tossed and Mark Chilton called heads, unfortuantaly it landed on tails and Lancashire were designated the fielding job first. The Lancashire captain was questionned about the descision, heres what he had to say;

Mark: Obviously we would have wanted to win the toss but its no biggy, we would have had a bowl anyway, the clouds are going to really aid Jimmy and Dom who will be opening the bowling today, Big Fred might also get something out of it too, The pitch is pretty hard too so Murali could work his magic, we'll have to wait and see...

With that the captains retreated to the dressing room to relay the news and get ready for a good days cricket.

The teams were announced shortly after the toss, no injury problems for either team, Lancashire will be looking to get after the tasty opening partnership of Marcus Trescothick and Graham Smith.

The Lancashire squad boasts some big names, Freddie, Anderson, Murali, but also some not so well known names that still do a great job, people like Stuart Law and also Mal Loye, both indispensible.

Play gets underway shortly so stay tuned.


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[S_Harmison]

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Frizzel County Championship Division 2:

Old Trafford
Day 1
Lunch
Lancashire Vs Somerset

Somerset: 107/1

ME Trescothick: 40*
M Burns: 9*

Lancashire no-ball crisis!!!!

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Lancashire have been blowing hot and cold in this Frizzel Conty Championship opening fixture, they bowled well for the most part and have restricted Trescothick, Smith and Burns to low totals but have been shooting themsleves in the foot by overstepping the line on 29 different occasions meaning that the bowlers have cost the team 58 runs so far, and its only lunch! It is totally unnaceptable and if this Lancashire team are going to mount a serious challenge on the championship this season then something needs to be done about it and soon!

Graham Smith and Marcus Trescothick going well at 35/0

Trescothick and Smith are a force to be reckoned with and if left unchecked can tear you apart before the match has even got into full swing, The Lancs bowlers did well to keep on top of them and keep the pressure on, Dominic Cork nearly dismissed Graham Smith with the first ball of the second over, a thin edge through to keeper Warren Hegg who took a wonderfull catch high above his head, The Lancashire team ran in to celebrate only to have it cut short as the call came from behind the bowler "NO BALL".

James Anderson has bowled well but is yet to take a wicket

Hogg and Hegg congratulate each other after the first wicket of the day. Graham Smith (9)

It would seem that no-balls were going to cost Lancashire dearly in more ways than one, it wasnt the case however as Smith only added 9 runs before a bowling change paid of, Flintoff softened him up the over before with a great bouncer to the body and a close LBW shout and then young Kyle Hogg rolled his fingers down the seam with his second ball of the day and found the outside edge, the work was not finished there though, Murali was on hand to take a good low catch at first slip, after checking behind him for the no-ball signal Hogg ran off to celebrate with his team mates.

G Smith (9) - c M.Muralitharan - b K.Hogg

Trescothick hammers one away over the slip cordon for four

So, lunch on day 1 and Trescothick is still there and closing in on his 50, he is accompanied by Burns on 9, Lancashire will be hoping that 9 is there lucky number and they can strike again without conceeding too many more runs, Wickets will be the key to success here, they need two quick wickets to get them rolling again, Murali and Brad Hodge were drafted in for a few overs before lunch but its time to get back to business as we pick up where we left off with Freddie Flintoff and Jimmy Anderson combining to make a deadly all english pace attack.

Scorecard:

Bowling Figures:

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[greencarrot2]

59 extras :O Lancasshire really need to concentrate on their bowling and slow things down until they are set in a rhythm.

 

[S_Harmison]

I can now confirm that the scorecard for tea on day 1 looks no better in the way of extras, it has now gone up to 97 including 1 wide. Its because im trying to stop it exactly on the line to get full pace instead of dropiing the pace and getting my lengths better, mot of them have been margianl though, Tea update later tonight.

 

[fardin]

harmison The screenshots takes a while to appear Why is that.

 

[S_Harmison]

Im not sure, maybe its the place that i upload them from http://www.imageshack.us/index.php

They come up straight away for me.

There worth waiting for though.

 

[m_vaughan]

yup they sure are...excellent screens and a nice presentation, as usual!

Good to see that you are going for the Edgbaston game. Hopefully England will be 1-0 up in the series by then!

 

[ronny_kingsley]

Just would like to know that why Jayasurya aint playing this match ????

Isnt he in the game for Somerset ????

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Just would like to know that why Jayasurya aint playing this match ????

Isnt he in the game for Somerset ????

Maybe he was afraid of Murali's bowling...

 

[S_Harmison]

Maybe he was afraid of Murali's bowling...

LOL

I cant confirm anything but as hes not playing then im assuming that hes not, sourav ganguly isnt in for glamorgan either but Harbajan is in for surrey. Update later.

 

[duffarama]

Very good presentation mate. I am enjoying this series.