Roundup: Jennings's 238 puts Lancashire in control of Roses match
A late-afternoon declaration ended a day of earthy toil for Yorkshire, watching ball after ball dart to the rope. Keaton Jennings passed 200, then eclipsed Lancashire’s highest Roses score, and was within touching distance of Darren Lehmann’s record for either side of 252. But a duff call by Phil Salt saw him run out for 238, a swift snatching at his gloves the only sign of Jennings’ irritation, before he raised his bat around the ground.
Jimmy Anderson took the new ball, to warm applause from a crowd sated by runs and chilled by a buffeting wind. But his first delivery was pinged for four, and it was Tom Bailey at the other end who made the breakthrough as Adam Lyth shouldered arms.
Elsewhere there were runs, runs and more runs. Surrey set a world record for the highest first-class total without an individual hundred in notching up 610 for nine declared, with 90s for Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes and Jamie Overton. Seven weary bowlers were put through their paces as Kent maintained their record of conceding at least 500 runs in every first-innings this season.
Five hundred was amassed in the two other Division One games, as Somerset declared on 591 for seven, with a century for Tom Abell, before Gloucestershire lost George Scott to the first ball of the innings. Jack Leach gathered three for 29 before stumps. Northants got close to 600, a century from Luke Procter adding to the glut, two Warwickshire wickets tumbling.
Three quick wickets for Stuart Broad and four for James Pattinson left Middlesex in trouble at Lord’s, and Billy Root inspired Glamorgan’s tail to a first-innings lead over Durham, with four wickets for Matty Potts. There were centuries too for Sussex’s Tom Clark and Derbyshire’s Shan Masood, still on course for 1,000 runs before the end of May.
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First and second edition write-ups done, the sun now beams at Headingley. Yorkshire lost Lyth and Malan before the close, Jimmy Anderson, Lancashire cap faded to maroon, went wicketless . Elsewhere, the story repeats itself: more and more runs.
Thanks for all your contributions BTL. James Wallace will be helming the blog tomorrow, be nice to him y’all. See you Sunday, have a lovely Friday evening.
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