flighted legbreak, Bess defends and the ball squirts to slip, where Livingstone is low to scoop the ball... did it carry? YES!! Steve O'Shaughnessy consults with Wharf and then gives it, and Lancashire have won the Roses clash in the last half hour of day four! First time Lancashire have beaten Yorkshire at Old Trafford in a four-day game in 21 years, according to Adam Collins on Sky
Yorkshire vs Lancashire, Group 3 at Manchester, County, May 27 2021 - Match Result
Jubilant scenes for the Red Rose, who needed four wickets in the final session but were held up first by Dom Bess and Harry Duke, then Bess and Jordan Thompson, the seventh- and eighth-wicket pairs eating up more than 40 overs. But Lancashire kept asking the right questions, Luke Wood got rid of Duke and then Saqib Mahmood at the end went bang-bang to complete a memorable five-for, leaving his good mate Matt Parkinson to finish it off. Yorkshire were six-and-a-bit overs from salvaging a draw, but that'll mean little now. Paul Edwards' report should be worth waiting for, so stick around for that - in the mean time, Leicestershire are closing in on a stunning win over Middlesex, chasing 378 in the fourth innings
tossed up and blocked on the front foot
Bess still hanging in there at the other end
Olivier covers off stump and survives
fullish, holding its line outside off, through to the keeper
pitched up in the channel, props forward and plays inside it
Mahmood has five, and Lancashire are just one away now! Duanne Olivier heads out
length ball, Coad fiddles at it - given! Mahmood barely appealed, but everyone behind the stumps was up, and so was Alex Wharf's finger! Ben Coad does a double-take, but has to depart. Yep, not happy with the decision, he whacks the boundary protectors on his way past. Drama!
tight around off stump, calmly tapped away
good length in the channel, Coad dangles the bat and is beaten
Mahmood to Ben Coad again
tapped away off the back foot
beats the bat, deflects to slip... who juggles the ball... and then Vilas grabs the rebound! Lancashire all go up, but the umpire shakes his head! Would have been a classic of the genre, had there been an edge
tossed up very full, Bess blocks half forward
flighted, this spins from leg stump and is dabbed away
very full and he smothers it on off
tossed up and defended on the front foot
Slip, gully, silly mid-off and short leg for Parky
Mahmood does it! Short of a length from round the wicket, Thompson fiddles at it and nicks through to Vilas! "Oh Lanky, Lanky!" is the cry in the stands, Yorkshire eight down now
length, lines this one up in defence again
angled in and blocked
Short leg, leg gully and two slips
outside off, Bess goes back and dabs a cut
short of a length, defended in front of the stumps
Into the last ten overs of the day at Emirates Old Trafford, Lancashire still three wickets short of victory... Can they do it? Could be dramatic if so
Old Trafford, Manchester | |
Toss | Yorkshire, elected to bat first |
Series | |
Season | 2021 |
Match days | 27,28,29,30 May 2021 - day (4-day match) |
Umpires | |
Match Referee | |
Points | Lancashire 22, Yorkshire 1 |