SECOND XI REPORT: Lancashire fighting to avoid innings defeat
Lancashire face the prospect of having to bat through the whole of the final day of this three-day ‘Roses’ friendly against Yorkshire if they are to avoid an innings defeat after the visitors ran up a mammoth first innings total of 622-7 declared at Crosby. The hosts are 40-1 in their second innings, 423 runs behind.
Centuries by Fin Bean, Matt Revis and Harry Duke put Yorkshire firmly in the driving seat on the second day with skipper Noah Kelly also making 95 as the Red Rose attack toiled in the Merseyside sunshine.
Resuming the Yorkshire first innings on 177-2 and ahead by 18 runs, Bean and Revis continued their productive partnership to forge ahead relentlessly, Bean the first to reach his century off 150 balls (13 fours, 1 six) with Revis posting his hundred from 138 balls (15 fours, 1 six).
The only success of the morning for Lancashire came when Revis, on 118, mistimed a pull that flew high to Josh Boyden at mid-on to give debutant Adnan Miakhel his second wicket of the innings and end an excellent third wicket stand of 232.
Having posted his 150 from 205 balls (18 fours, 2 sixes) just before lunch, Bean was out after adding six runs at the start of the afternoon when the opening bat slog/swept leg spinner Haider Hussain to Miakhel at deep midwicket with Yorkshire strongly placed on 336-4.
And the visitors piled on the runs through the afternoon with another big partnership of 187 runs for the fifth wicket across 35 overs between Duke and Noah Kelly to hammer home their advantage.
Duke reached three figures off 126 balls as the White Rose side reached tea on 512-4 and had made 135 by the time he was lbw to the leg spin of George Harris. By then Kelly had departed five short of adding his name to the list of centurions when he edged Harry Singh to Arav Shetty at first slip, and Matt Milnes was bowled sweeping by Rian Maisuria before Yorkshire called a halt with a lead of 463 runs.
With ten overs left to bat before the close Lancashire lost Maisuria for 7 in the fifth over when he pulled a short ball from Michael Finan to Jafer Chohan at deep backward square, but Singh and Shetty negotiated the remaining deliveries to reach stumps.
TEAMS
Lancashire: George Bell (capt/wicketkeeper), Harry Singh, Rian Maisuria, Arav Shetty, George Harris, Ollie Sutton, Joe Chapple, Josh Boyden, Archie Davies, Haider Hussain, Miller Childs, Adnan Miakhel.
Yorkshire: Noah Kelly (capt), Will Luxton, Jonny Tattersall, Harry Duke (wicketkeeper), Jawad Akhtar, Matt Milnes, Jafer Chohan, Bradley Sylvester, Michael Finan, Ed Burch, Fin Bean, Matt Revis.
Team change: Jonny Tattersall replaced Harry Duke as wicketkeeper at the start of the Lancashire second innings.