OH LANKY LANKY! LANKY LANKY LANKY LANKY LANCASHIRE

this one done already surely

Lanky always have problems getting the tail out, game on now.

Lancashire 189 & 340/7
Warwickshire 280
Lancashire lead by 246 runs with 3 wickets remaining

Gary Keedy said yesterday that Lancy began day two wanting to set them 200 in the last innings. This could be a very twitchy one tomorrow. Lancy's mini-collapse means a draw might be out of the window if the weather's good tomorrow.

In other news, six catches for Rikki Clarke - the best in 2011 and one short of equalling the world record.

Lancashire 189 & 340/7
Warwickshire 280
Lancashire lead by 246 runs with 3 wickets remaining

Gary Keedy said yesterday that Lancy began day two wanting to set them 200 in the last innings. This could be a very twitchy one tomorrow. Lancy's mini-collapse means a draw might be out of the window if the weather's good tomorrow.

In other news, six catches for Rikki Clarke - the best in 2011 and one short of equalling the world record.

shame tomorrow's forecast is dire

Forecast much better than it was yesterday. May even get a full days play in now.

i hope so,i've enjoyed the last 3 days - who needs to go abroad for a holiday when you can spend most of your 2 weeks off at southport and liverpool watching cricket

Might spend the day there myself tomorrow if the weather's ok.

Oh amd while I'm on...great knock Crofty, time to give someone else a go Chilts.

be extremely lucky to avoid the weather altogether tomorrow and any time lost at all will make it hard for either side to win

time chilton was just a club cricketer

looks like it may only be weather affected in the morning - i'll be there again from about 9.45 getting the run around from my lad in the nets !

t20 no problem

lanky, warks and zum could be getting a break this week in the championship. forecast looks absolutely dire in norf east for durham's game

A fantastic performance

I'll be at the Challenge Cup final on t20 finals day

can't you leg it up to brum afterwards for the inevitable lanky zummerzet final

ill be there 2

It's Day 1 in two important games:

Blackpool
Lancashire 282
Worcestershire 32/5 (15.0 ov)

Taunton
Somerset 20/2 (8.0 ov)
Nottinghamshire
Stumps - Day 1

get the pitch inspectors up to blackpool

best zum can hope for is to tempt notts into a run chase. be no play tomorrow either by the looks of it.

I am gutted, maf. Gutted.


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Your
Odds
Your
Stake
Your
Profit
Nottinghamshire    5.2    £50.44    £211.85
5.4    £6.95    £30.58
5.7    £0.41    £1.93
5.9    £0.24    £1.18
6    £37.98    £189.90
6.2    £2.00    £10.40
7.8    £1.98    £13.46
The Draw    2.32    £0.41    £0.54
2.34    £9.33    £12.50
2.36    £1.88    £2.56
2.44    £20.64    £29.72
2.48    £116.91    £173.03
2.5    £10.39    £15.59
2.52    £10.64    £16.17
2.54    £1.88    £2.90
2.56    £1.88    £2.93
2.58    £0.38    £0.60
2.6    £1.44    £2.30
2.64    £0.37    £0.61
2.72    £0.08    £0.14

thought we looked a silly price considering the forecast for thursday was a shocker. that thin band of rain today that came up from cornwall and stubbornly refused to move was a real nasty shock.

thought we might get on for a hour or so tonight. probably best we didn't. might have lost 3 or 4 more in ideal bowling conditions.

The annoying thing was that strictly they should not have played at all at Taunton today, as it was spitting with rain right from the start.

You had to feel for the spectators, of which there were between 1 and 2 thousand. They were well put away by the Met forecast for mostly dry with patchy rain. There was a huge blob of rain coming up from the Western Approaches on the radar overnight, which was when I was getting what I could on the draw, but the Met refused to revise their forecast.

lanks win by 98 runs

A brilliant day for Lancashire:

:: Lancs take less than an hour to beat Worcestershire
:: Warwickshire are thrashed by Hampshire
:: Somerset get just six points from their drawn game

Lancashire don't have a Championship game until a week on Wednesday. Win that game against eighth-placed Worcs, and then again against bottom-of-the-table Hants the week after, and...

we could possibly win the league against Hampshire at Liverpool on saturday 10th Sept and with any luck it will be at about 5.00 so i dont have to go to Goodison that day !

Time to book some time off work i think

Sad day for the county Championship when such a poor side looks like winning the competition.

its been like that for years now though

The days were teams like somerset would have Garner, Richards and Botham playing most games have long gone

Even Lancs sides 15 years ago had fairbrother, Atherton, Crawley, Watkinson, Akram etc - 8 or 9 internationals and we came no where near winning the championship - this side is not a patch on those sides

the nugget and screamingfrombeneaththewaves can't stand the thought of Lancashire even coming close to winning the title

There's some world-class seething elsewhere on this forum about the number of Durham, Warwickshire and Somerset players who've been called up by England for the ODI in Ireland. Very satisfying

screaming from beneaththewaves     18 Aug 11 23:32 
Through gritted teeth, but Peter Moores has done a hell of a job this season getting basically average batsmen like Horton, Croft and Karl Brown to improve into good ones who get consistently good scores.

Where is the "can't stand the thought" please? We appreciate exciting cricket down here. Also, why do you think Zum fans should be seething about Kieswetter's call-up for England vs Ireland? We don't even have a Ch'ship game next week.

Will any of you Lancs supporters be making the long journey down from, er, Slough for the title decider?

Disappointing lack of biting from the northern monkeys

Will any of you Lancs supporters be making the long journey down from, er, Slough for the title decider?

It will be all over by then

All eyes on the big one at Colwyn Bay today, which will effectively decide the finest one day side in the land.

Any news of the score?

thanks - we are playing the kids today so we can prepare for 20/20 finals day and the championship run in

I've booked my hotel for Taunton

I'll be there on days 2, 3 and 4 - and if we can't win the title or there's a monsoon forecast, I can cancel my room and get a full refund!

Well done to the Yorkshire Invertebrates, by the way, for their surrender against Warwickshire. I hope the white flag county enjoy the second division after today's contemptible performance.

i would imagine 2 days will be enough should it be a straight shootout with zum. batsmen will need waders so green and damp will the wicket be.

indeed some achievement for yorkshire to finish below a terrible worcester side

OH CHOKEY CHOKEY!
CHOKEY CHOKEY CHOKEY CHOKEY CHOKEYSHIRE!

PMSL at the northern mugs. Only a matter of time till Warwickshire lift the county championship.

picking a spinner to bowl a 1 over shoot out is ****g madness

rather have the sarge bowling

Junaid Khan would have been a different proposition against Jefferson in that over.

Amazing to think they haven't even got close.

screaming from beneaththewaves 27 Aug 11 14:48 
OH CHOKEY CHOKEY!
CHOKEY CHOKEY CHOKEY CHOKEY CHOKEYSHIRE!

I think it's called karma, my Somerset-supporting friend

See you in India for the Champions League, my friend.

Oh. Aren't you?

52/4

73/7

85/8

113/9

161 ao

worcs 45/4

lanky gonna win this one at a canter

dodgt wicket by the looks of it

Lancs been preparing dodgy wickets all year. Hope Worcestershire put them away.

Lancs hoping Yorkshire can do them a favour and beat Warwicks or hold them to a draw. Shame Yorks are so flaky ....

warwicks in good position to win match, 2 games to go after that. shame lancs are so flaky too

As a long time bear, I will not be convinced until the last ball of the season. Looking good for us though.

Looks like this odious club have produced another filthy result wicket at Liverpool.

nothing wrong with a result wicket surely !
lets see if it lasts more than 1.5 days like our last match at worcester or are you saying that the lancs groundsman also prepared that wicket

FYI the last time lancs played at Liverpool the game was a draw with only a few hours lost to the weather - Lancs batting is so poor at the moment that i wouldnt back us to get 200 at Taunton so lets see how hants bat 1st

I actually caught someone today.

Interesting that you guys juggled the team around a fair amount today.

as toffee says they could make any wicket look like a result track at the moment. only passed 200 about once in the last 4 matches.

The result at Worcester almost took the shine off my holiday to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Almost, but not quite...

Chapple and Hogg have led us to a third batting point today. A decent effort from the "odious club"

I went for the last 2 hrs of play today - it didnt look like a filthy wicket from where i was sat - Chapple and Hogg were in no danger even once the new ball was taken.
Again the umpires make a nonsense of cricket going off for bad light - its suppose to be dangerous - they hadnt missed a ball for 2 hours !

Title almost in Warwickshire's hands now.

yep a valiant effort by notts in losing just the 15 wickets so far today

In fairness Woakes, Rankin and Clarke have routed many a side this year.

bowled zum out in 14 overs at the start of the season. think we lost 12 wickets before lunch

Got to fancy Lancs to finish this one off in the final session unless there is weather about.

Are they playing at the liverpool cc ground, near the city centre?

If so, the worst of it seems to have passed but there could be a small shower in about 30 mins.

Scratch that.  Radar now says possible at 5.10.  Could easily miss though.

1 more down   2 to go.

8 wickets for Kerrigan in this innings now.  9 down and an hour to go. Looks like Lanky's.

win with 3 minutes left

Lanks win with 4 mins to spare

never in doubt

Amazing scenes. won it with 3 minutes left

nice one Lanky

just conceded 142-0 runs in that session and probably any hope of the title with it..



Buttler

Get that hotpot on the stove Nilsson. Get innnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Congratulations to the county of the Red Rose.

congratulations. certainly well deserved. made the running almost all season.

Well done Lancs. Well done Pete Moores - class act imo

Flat Jack Simmons, Harry Pilling, Jackie Bond, David Hughes, Clive Lloyd, Gracie Fields, Eccles Cakes, your lads ....


... well done !


At bloooody last !

long time between post and this comment nice call nilsson schmilsson

Chuffed for you guys. The prominence of home grown talent and the absence of overseas players warms the cockles.

Cheers Inj...we couldn't win it with Clive Lloyd, Wasim, Murali etc. but win it with the local kids. So chuffed for Chappy.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LANCY LANCY, LANCY LANCY LANCY LANCY LANCASHIRE

So glad lanky won it

the better side for me and fully deserved it

Brilliant [:D] and a big thank you to Hampshire

Superb, when so little was expected at the beginning of the season, fantastic performance

hapy happy days so chuffed brilliant and truly deserved particuarly after the D/L robbery i witnessed at edgbaston

well done lankyshire

Well done Lancs. Fond boyhood memories here of the 70s side winning one-day trophies year after year.

LANCASHIRE LA LA LA
LANCASHIRE LA LA LA

bottle of champers on way to hampshire for a performance that brings credit to the county league, and a big well done to the boys in red who fought till the end and got what they deserved. been a long time coming. is that fella who shouts "oh lancy lancy still about. bet hes hungover today

Lancashire's LV= County Championship triumph will be given royal approval next month.

The new kings of English cricket have been invited to Buckingham Palace to officially receive the trophy from the Duke of Edinburgh. As patron of the Lord’s Taverners, the Duke hosts a lunch for the county champions each year after which the trophy is officially presented along with the players’ medals. 

And the club have now received their official invite to this year’s ceremony on October 13. It will spark a period of celebration for the new champions.

Manchester City Council are planning a civic reception for the club.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/cricket/s/1459309_champions-lancashire-get-their-date-with-the-duke-at-the-palace

Keedy's staying with the champs.Stick your cheque book Cashley Giles [:D]

and Chilton retires

just keeps getting better

The Champion county only needs another 80 runs with 8 wickets in hand out in the desert

the desert to a freezing OT. we can win anywhere!!