Pollock guides Worcestershire to victory
A Baz-balling Ed Pollock bamboozled Middlesex to set up a seven-wicket victory for Worcestershire on a capricious Merchant Taylors’ pitch. His 113, in just 77 balls, included seven sixes which crashed into various festival tents, endangering ice creams and scorecards alike. His highest score also made easy pickings of a target of 238 and, after Pollock eventually fell going for another whopper, the captain Brett D’Oliveira hurried his side over the line.
“After the last 10 weeks, where I haven’t scored a bean, I was thinking: ‘I’ve got in, I’m going to make this count,’” Pollock said. “I owe the team a lot of runs, I had a lot of making up to do.”
A three-day victory also for Essex, who wrapped up the remaining four Gloucestershire wickets – Simon Harmer dusting his lapel with eight for 112, 13 for 156 in the match. The winless Gloucestershire could at least be buoyed by the performance of Zafar Gohar, who hit 81 from 75 balls to ensure Essex needed to bat again.
High-scoring draws seemed inevitable at Scarborough, where Surrey’s Rory Burns was finally out for 132, and Yorkshire’s Dom Bess toiled away for five for 126; and Southport, where Keaton Jennings danced to 318 against Somerset, only the sixth Lancashire player to join the triple-century club. There were also centuries for Derbyshire’s Brooke Guest and Leus du Plooy, the Leicestershire trio of Louis Kimber, Wiaan Mulder and Colin Ackermann and Glamorgan’s Eddie Byrom and Sam Northeast.
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A triple-century for Keaton Jennings!
Budge over Headingley, hello Southport! The highest first-class score ever at Trafalgar Road. Well played, TJNMIC.
3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ NOT OUT!!!
— Lancashire Cricket (@lancscricket) July 13, 2022
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