LIVE BLOG: Lancashire v Gloucestershire, Day One
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11.00am RAIN DELAY
Gloucestershire 1st inns 11-1 (7 overs) Price 7 Phillips 1
After half an hour of play rain has swept in to take the players from the field.
There has been one significant to report and that was Joe Phillips being dropped on 0 at third slip by Ben Walkden off James Anderson. A hard chance to his right but one he would have expected to grab.
10.40am
Gloucestershire 1st inns 4-1 (2 overs) Price 2 Phillips 0
Mitch Stanley sharing the new ball with James Anderson who has taken a very early wicket!
10.30am
Gloucestershire 1st inns 2-1 (0.2 overs)
What a start, Ed Middleton feathers an edge behind off James Anderson for 2.
TOSS & TEAMS
Gloucestershire have won the toss and elected to bat.
Lancashire team: Keaton Jennings, Matty Hurst (wk), Harry Singh, Marcus Harris, Rocky Flintoff, Arav Shetty, Ben Walkden, George Balderson, Noman Ali, Mitchell Stanley, James Anderson (capt).
Mitch Stanley replaces Tom Bailey is the only change made by Lancashire.
Gloucestershire: Ed Middleton, Joe Phillips, Ollie Price, Miles Hammond, James Bracey (capt/wk), Kamran Dhariwal, Sai Kishore, Matt Taylor, Will Williams, Daaryoush Ahmed, JT Langridge.
9.00am
Good morning from Emirates Old Trafford where we have bright and dry conditions ahead of the opening day of our Rothesay County Championship match with Gloucestershire.
Hours of Play
Matches in September start thirty minutes earlier than normal: Start 10.30am, Lunch 12.30pm, Tea 3.10pm or when 32 overs remain to be bowled, Close 5.30pm or when 96 have been bowled.
Team News
Lancashire
Fresh off the back of scoring 108 from just 84 balls for the Second XI last week, batter Michael Jones returns to the squad.
Wicketkeeper Joe Moores and spinner Tom Hartley are away on England Lions duty, whilst Paul Coughlin is still absent from the squad due to injury.
Squad: Sir James Anderson (capt), Noman Ali, Tom Aspinwall, Tom Bailey, George Balderson, Rocky Flintoff, Marcus Harris, Matty Hurst (wk), Keaton Jennings, Michael Jones, Arav Shetty, Harry Singh, Mitchell Stanley, Ben Walkden.
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire have added young seamer Che Simmons to their squad on loan from Warwickshire.
Squad: James Bracey (capt/wk), Daaryoush Ahmed, Tommy Boorman, Miles Hammond, James Hayes, Sai Kishore, JT Langridge, Ed Middleton, Joe Phillips, Ollie Price, Che Simmons, Matt Taylor and Will Williams.