LIVE BLOG: Lancashire v Gloucestershire, Day One
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6.24pm CLOSE Day 1
Lancashire 1st inns 342-5 (96 overs) Harris 165 Wells 3
Two late wickets for Zaman Akhter took a bit of a shine off at the end, Matty Hurst edging behind for 78 and Saqib Mahmood yorked for 4 that has been Lancashire's best day of the season thus far.
5.48pm
Lancashire 1st inns 315-3 (88 overs) Harris 160 Hurst 65
Eight overs to go with Marcus Harris and Matty Hurst exercising a bit of caution as Ajeet Singh Dale and Tom Price hunt for a breakthrough with the new ball.
5.28pm
Lancashire 1st inns 291-3 (84 overs) Harris 151 Hurst 59
Marcus Harris flicks Josh Shaw for six over midwicket and he has now reached his 150 off 223 balls (2x6, 14x4). Fabulous innings.
5.07pm
Lancashire 1st inns 262-3 (79 overs) Harris 131 Hurst 50
Matty Hurst goes to his first fifty of the season from 98 balls with 1 six and 3 fours, and his innings has provided great support to Harris in this partnership.
4.40pm
Lancashire 1st inns 229-3 (71 overs) Harris 110 Hurst 39
The 100 partnership between Marcus Harris and Matty Hurst has arrived off 163 balls with both batters having hit sixes in recent overs.
Hurst top edged a pull over fine leg off Tom Price while Harris has hammered Ollie Price into the members seats in front of the pavilion.
Harris also has reached 500 runs for the season.
4.30pm
Lancashire 1st inns 212-3 (68.4 overs) Harris 100 Hurst 24
Marcus Harris drives Graeme van Buuren through cover for four and then gets a single off Tom Price to go to his 31st first-class century off 176 balls including 11 fours. Outstanding.
3.50pm, TEA Day 1
Lancashire 1st inns 189-3 (64 overs) Harris 90 Hurst 18
A good session for Lancashire and Marcus Harris who looks in complete control out there. The partnership between Harris and Matty Hurst is building nicely and is now worth 68 runs.
3.10pm
Lancashire 1st inns 154-3 (50 overs) Harris 61 Hurst 13
Fifty to Marcus Harris who becomes the first Lancashire player to score five fifties in his first 7 innings for the club. His 50 came from 106 balls. What a great start to the season he his having!
2.40pm WICKET
Lancashire 1st inns 121-3 (43.1 overs) Harris 41 Hurst 0
Josh Bohannon attempts to pull the first delivery of the afternoon from spinner Ollie Price but the ball stays a bit low and he's lbw for 56.
2.20pm
Lancashire 1st inns 106-2 (38 overs) Bohannon 50 Harris 32
Josh Bohannon goes to his fifty from 96 balls including 7 fours!
2.00pm
Lancashire 1st inns 90-2 (34 overs) Bohannon 42 Harris 26
We are twenty minutes into the afternoon session where Josh Bohannon and Marcus Harris have made a steady start after lunch. Harris has just punched a lovely back foot drive wide of point for four off Ben Charlesworth.
Josh Bohannon, incidentally is the 7th fastest to reach 5,000 runs for Lancashire in terms of innings behind: Stuart Law 98, John Crawley 103, Keaton Jennings 109, Ashwell Prince 112, Mal Loye 112, Mike Atherton 115 (Bohannon 120*).
1.00pm, LUNCH Day 1
Lancashire 1st inns 79-2 (28 overs) Bohannon 36 Harris 21
Lancashire have made a good recovery thanks to this 56-run partnership between Josh Bohannon and Marcus Harris after those two early wickets by Ajeet Singh Dale who has been the pick of the visitors attack.
12.45pm
Lancashire 1st inns 73-2 (24 overs) Bohannon 32 Harris 19
Josh Bohannon and Marcus Harris have weathered the early storm and are now moving along rapidly with a succession of boundaries bringing 30 runs from the last five overs.
Their 50 partnership has arrived from 76 balls and Bohannon has now reached 5,000 first-class runs for Lancashire.
12.25pm
Lancashire 1st inns 44-2 (18 overs) Bohannon 12 Harris 11
Ajeet Singh Dale has completed a fine 5 over spell of 2-12 and is replaced by Zaman Akhter.
12.05pm
Lancashire 1st inns 35-2 (14 overs) Bohannon 8 Harris 8
This is a very good spell by Ajeet Singh Dale who beats Marcus Harris a couple of times but Harris responds with a nicely flicked on drive for four. Josh Shaw is back into the Glos attack.
11.49am WICKET
Lancashire 1st inns 23-2 (10.4 overs) Bohannon 5 Harris 0
Ajeet Singh Dale gets reward for a good over, beating Keaton Jennings' outside edge a couple of deliveries ago but his fourth ball does find an edge that flies to Cameron Bancroft at second slip.
11.36am WICKET
Lancashire 1st inns 16-1 (8.2 overs) Jennings 4 Bohannon 0
That is a very unfortunate way to get out! George Bell on 10 defends Ajeet Singh Dale's second delivery and the ball spins back down off the batters' body with Bell then accidentally kicking it onto his stumps.
11.12am
Lancashire 1st inns 8-0 (3 overs) Bell 4 Jennings 2
George Bell gets the first boundary of the day with a nice leg glance off Josh Shaw to fine leg.
There are 1,500 or so school children in attendance today currently chanting "hit the ball repeatedly." They enjoyed that shot.
11.04am
Lancashire 1st inns 0-0 (1 over) Bell 0 Jennings 0
Play under way with Josh Shaw bowling a maiden to George Bell who is into the side for his first senior outing of the season. Tom Price is sharing the new ball.
10.30am
Toss: Lancashire have won the toss and elected to bat.
Teams
Lancashire: Keaton Jennings (capt), George Bell, Josh Bohannon, Marcus Harris, Matty Hurst (wicket), Luke Wells, George Balderson, Tom Hartley, Saqib Mahmood, John Turner, Tom Bailey.
Lancashire make two changes with George Bell and Tom Bailey replacing Michael Jones and Anderson Phillip.
Gloucestershire
Cameron Bancroft (capt), Ben Charlesworth, Miles Hammond, Cameron Green, James Bracey (wkt), Graeme van Buuren, Zaman Akhter, Josh Shaw, Ajeet Singh Dale, Tom Price.
9.30am
Good morning from Emirates Old Trafford where we have bright, dry conditions ahead of the opening day of our Rothesay County Championship match with Gloucestershire.
The toss will take place at 10.30am, Lunch is at 1pm, Tea 3.40pm or when 32 overs remain to be bowled.
Squads
Lancashire
Keaton Jennings (capt), Michael Jones, Josh Bohannon, Marcus Harris, Matty Hurst (wicket), Luke Wells, George Balderson, Tom Hartley, Anderson Phillip, Saqib Mahmood, John Turner, Tom Bailey, Will Williams, George Bell.
Gloucestershire
Cameron Bancroft (capt), Ben Charlesworth, Miles Hammond, Cameron Green, James Bracey (wkt), Graeme van Buuren, Zaman Akhter, Josh Shaw, Dom Goodman, Ajeet Singh Dale, Ed Middleton, Tom Price, Joe Phillips.