Lancashire won by 7 wickets
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Liam Livingstone took 6 wickets and notched a half-century as Lancashire surrounded triumph in their Specsavers County Championship clash with Surrey at Old Trafford
Liam Livingstone declared a first five-wicket haul – Getty Images
Lancashire 268 and 132 for 3 (Livingstone 51 *) require an additional 44 to beat Surrey 201 for 8 dec and 242 (Stoneman 98, Livingstone 6-52, Parry 4-59)
Liam Livingstone took 6 wickets and notched a half-century as Lancashire surrounded triumph in their Specsavers County Championship clash with Surrey at Old Trafford.
Lancashire took Surrey’s 10 wickets for simply 88 go to establish a success target of 176 after Mark Stoneman had actually provided the visitors an outstanding start to the day. It looked as though success would be finished on day 3 as Livingstone’s fifty took Lancashire to within 44 runs of the win, however bad light stepped in to require the video game into the last day.
The early morning session mirrored day 2 in as much as a strong start by the batting side was reversed by a flurry of wickets before lunch.
Surrey resumed on 79 for 0, with a lead of 12, and Stoneman and Rory Burns went on to share a 150-stand for the opening wicket. Stoneman commemorated his call-up to England’s Ashes team by racing to 98 from 113 balls before his wicket, taken by Livingstone, activated a collapse by the visitors.
Stephen Parry dismissed the other set batsman Rory Burns for 45 before Livingstone went on to declare career-best bowling figures. He got rid of Scott Borthwick for 4 and Ben Foakes, another Ashes team member, for a golden duck with succeeding shipments to suggest that Surrey had actually lost 4 wickets in 12 balls for simply 6 runs.
The circulation of wickets simply continued before lunch with Olly Pope and Rikki Clarke both signing up with the list of victims declared by Livingstone and Sam Curran leaving very first ball to Parry.
At lunch Surrey were 197 for 7, leading by 130 with Kumar Sangakkara, playing in his last first-rate video game, still at the crease. He got a guard of honour from Lancashire’s gamers on his arrival and he went on to include 44 for the 8th wicket with Gareth Batty as Surrey tried to react to that flurry of wickets.
The last 3 then fell in the area of 6 balls. Livingstone declared his 6th as Batty cracked one high back to the bowler and Parry continued to get rid of Stuart Meaker and Jade Dernbach – both without scoring.
Surrey had actually slipped from 154 for 0 to 242 all out, leaving Lancashire that chase of 176. Sangakkara, in his last superior video game, was unbeaten on 35.
Lancashire began their chase well, advancing to 40 without loss when Alex Davies succumbed to a sophisticated 30.
