LIVE BLOG: Lancashire v Middlesex, Day Three
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2.41pm MIDDLESEX WIN BY 6 WICKETS
Middlesex 2nd inns 117-4
An unbeaten 73 off 70 balls by Ben Geddes sees Middlesex through to victory.
2.24pm
Middlesex 2nd inns 98-4 need a further 19 to win, Geddes 59 Higgins 6
Ben Geddes has reached his fifty from 47 deliveries as Middlesex steadily close in on their winning target.
1.54pm
Middlesex 2nd inns 64-4 need a further 53 to win, Geddes 31 Higgins 0
Makes that two wickets as Caleb Falconer edges behind off George Balderson for a duck!
1.50pm
Middlesex 2nd inns 63-3 need a further 54 to win, Geddes 30 Falconer 0
A wicket straight after lunch as Leus du Plooy edges behind off Mitch Stanley for 1.
1.08pm, LUNCH Day 3
Middlesex 2nd inns 57-2 need a further 60 to win, Geddes 25
A second wicket falls on the stroke of lunch, Max Holden caught behind down the leg side off Mitch Stanley for 9.
12.55pm
Middlesex 2nd inns 36-1 need a further 81 to win, Geddes 13 Holden 0
Sam Robson and Ben Geddes have gone for their shots, rattling up 36 off the first 6 overs, but Robson has gone for 14 to an outstanding, diving catch at midwicket by Tom Bailey off George Balderson's first delivery.
12.35pm
Middlesex 2nd inns 7-0 need a further 110 to win, Robson 6 Geddes 1
James Anderson and Tom Bailey opening the Lancashire attack as you'd expect with around 35 minutes to play before lunch.
12.20pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 84 all out (38.4 overs)
Chris Green skies a catch to deep mid-on attempting to hit out off Naavya Sharma. That's a career-best 4-17 for Sharma.
Middlesex need 117 to win, and in bowler-friendly conditions that is not necessarily an easy target going off what we've witnessed so far.
12.13pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 81-9 (37 overs) lead by 113 runs, Green 4 Anderson 0
A triple wicket over by Naaya Sharma who has Tom Bailey caught at third slip for 4.
Fantastic over by the young Middlesex seamer.
12.11pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 81-8 (36.3 overs) lead by 113 runs, Green 4 Bailey 4
A double bowling change sees 7 valuable runs come from Seb Morgan's first over but Naavya Sharma strikes with his first ball, Matty Hurst edging to third slip for 7 followed by Tom Hartley edging behind first ball.
Tom Bailey nudges the hat trick ball down to third man for four.
11.43am
Lancashire 2nd inns 64-6 (31 overs) lead by 96 runs, Hurst 0 Green 0
Astonishing! Toby Roland-Jones gets the ball past Mitch Stanley's forward defence, the ball hits the off stump but only the leg side bail falls off. Can't think I've seen that before. But Stanley is gone, bowled for 8.
11.34am
Lancashire 2nd inns 63-5 (29 overs) lead by 95 runs, Stanley 7 Hurst 0
Another blow for Lancashire as Toby Roland-Jones nips one back sharply to have Michael Jones lbw for 10.
11.23am
Lancashire 2nd inns 60-4 (26 overs) Stanley 7 Jones 9
Michael Jones has been proactive against Ryan Higgins advancing down the track a couple of times to the Middlesex seamer and getting a big inside edge the first time but then driving a lovely boundary through cover.
11.07am
Lancashire 2nd inns 48-4 (22 overs) Stanley 2 Jones 0
Ryan Higgins strikes a big blow, nipping one away from Marcus Harris that finds an edge to wicketkeeper Harry Duke.
Higgins now has 4-18.
11.02am
Lancashire 2nd inns 45-3 (21 overs) Stanley 2 Harris 1
Play under way in bright sunshine with Toby Roland-Jones and Ryan Higgins sharing the bowling duties.
9.15am
It is a gloriously sunny day at Emirates Old Trafford for the third day of this Rothesay County Championship match with Middlesex, where will definitely have a minimum of 104 overs to bowl today.
Start 11am, Lunch is at 1.10pm, Tea at 4pm.
Lancashire will resume their second innings on 45-3 leading by 77 runs with Marcus Harris on 1 and nightwatch Mitch Stanley on 2.
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