Exiled Bear
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Briggs got an enormous inside edge onto that one. Shocking decision.
This is agonising.
Can't afford to lose another wicket before lunch.
That's a harsh call for Yates if the umpire has given that LBW, but we did have one or two good shouts go our way yesterday
Abbas is back on the field, which is a shame from our point of view!
I actually thought that Dawson looked quite threatening towards the end today, but that might have been because we were playing for the close a bit. Barker seems to be their only other threat now that Abbas is injured (and presumably won't bowl tomorrow).
296 to win, then. I'm not confident...
Rhodes under-bowling himself again - only five overs this innings. Has he forgotten that he took five wickets in the first innings?! Amazed he didn't have a go when that partnership was going, he has a knack of taking breaking partnerships.
Think we've got to keep the target under 250 if we're going to have a chance. A defeat would be very damaging to our title ambitions with Yorkshire winning and Notts likely to win, and a draw doesn't seem likely so we really could do with winning this one.
I also think that Somerset losing made us less likely to go for the win. No point risking a defeat to go for a win with three games still to go.
With the tail that we have, I'd say 371 is about par from there.
coolerking wrote:
These last two wickets may yet put on a few runs but from a fantastic platform of 244 for 3, not reaching 400 would be a disappointment. The slow scoring did rob the innings of some momentum. That's a platform middle order batters dream about.
I'd have taken this position from 7/2 though!
The other thing to consider is that Lancashire only needed one more wicket for another bonus point themselves.
Really poor. Their total was probably below par but we never got going. They shouldn’t have got more than 150 really which would have been much more doable.
Will Woakes be allowed to play?
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Brilliant finish - 84 runs for the last two wickets!
All our batsmen made it to double figures - that can't happen very often.