Lancashire: Fair wind for Fairy (14 July 1997)
NEIL Fairbrother is winning his fitness battle for Lancashire's Championship match against Sussex starting at Old Trafford on Wednesday
14-Jul-1997
14 July 1997
Lancashire: Fair wind for Fairy
Lancashire Evening Telegraph
NEIL Fairbrother is winning his fitness battle for Lancashire's
Championship match against Sussex starting at Old Trafford on
Wednesday.
Fairbrother missed last week's NatWest defeat at Hove with a
thigh strain, but coach Dav Whatmore rates him "probable" to
return as Lancashire bid for Championship revenge, and a third
consecutive victory.
They are set to field a full strength batting line-up for the
first time since the trip to Leicester five matches ago with
Mike Atherton and John Crawley both available and Jason Gallian
fit again after his hand injury.
But the bowling attack will definitely be missing Wasim Akram
and Glen Chapple, out for at least two weeks after his stomach
injury was diagnosed as an oblique abdominal tear.
Richard Green is also ruled out with no end in sight to his
ankle problems so Peter Martin, Darren Shadford and Ian Austin
seem certain to lead the Lancashire attack.
Source :: Lancashire Evening Telegraph (https://www.reednews.co.uk/let/)