LIVE BLOG: Lancashire v Nottinghamshire, Day One
Latest news from the first day of the LV= County Championship match at Emirates Old Trafford.
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12.50pm, PLAY ABANDONED
Play has been abandoned for the day due to the rain and saturated ground conditions.
12.15pm, LUNCH Day 1
I'm afraid it is looking pretty bleak at Emirates Old Trafford as the rain continues to fall with pools of water forming on several parts of the outfield.
11.00am
There has been no improvement in the conditions over the last hour with rain continuing to fall.
10.00am
We have wet and windy conditions at Emirates Old Trafford this morning ahead of the first day of the game against Nottinghamshire.
The covers remain in place, and we will provide regular updates about any prospects of play.
TEAM NEWS
Lancashire
Matty Hurst and Harry Singh have been included in their first LV= Insurance County Championship squad, whilst seamer Jack Blatherwick returns following a knee injury that kept him out of last week's clash with Middlesex. Jack Morley also returns to squad and Danny Lamb is once again included in order to provide seam-bowling cover.
Phil Salt, Tom Hartley and Luke Wood are unavailable having joined up with England ahead of their three-match ODI series with Ireland, which gets underway on Wednesday. Seamers Tom Aspinwall and Saqib Mahmood remain sidelined with back injuries.
Nottinghamshire
Our visitors make one change to their squad from last week’s match against Kent with off spinner Matt Carter added to the squad in place of Liam Patterson-White.
SQUADS
Lancashire: Keaton Jennings (c), Tom Bailey, George Balderson, George Bell, Jack Blatherwick, Josh Bohannon, Steven Croft, Matthew Hurst, Danny Lamb, Jack Morley, Harry Singh, Luke Wells, Will Williams.
Nottinghamshire: Ben Slater, Haseeb Hameed, Steven Mullaney (capt), Joe Clarke, Matt Montgomery, Tom Moores (wkt), Lyndon James, Calvin Harrison, Brett Hutton, Dane Paterson, Asitha Fernando, Jake Ball, Matt Carter.