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Jul 24 2008
AFTER eight days’ cricket in which patience had played a major role in bringing Lancashire two vital victories, Stuart Law’s players discovered yesterday that wheeling away and waiting for success does not always bring its own rewards....
Apr 21 2008
ANDREW FLINTOFF was heartened by his first-class comeback with Lancashire and hopes his latest return from ankle surgery will be permanent....
Apr 21 2008
FORMER England cricket coach Duncan Fletcher does not believe Andrew Flintoff is capable of holding down a place as a top-six batsman in the Test side unless his bowling returns to its peak again....
Apr 21 2008
LANCASHIRE and Derbyshire were forced to watch the rain fall at Old Trafford as their opening Friends Provident Trophy North Division game was washed out without a ball bowled....
Jan 28 2008
EVERY profession has its ultimate challenges. Physicists, for example, are constantly searching for the theory of everything and politicians know that their chances of re-election would be immeasurably enhanced if they could please all of the people all of the time....
Jan 28 2008
THE ECB’s announcement that increased numbers of children of both sexes are taking up cricket would have come as little surprise to anyone who attended the Old Xaverians nets....
Jan 21 2008
JAMES ANDERSON is feeling fresh and he is looking on the bright side of his cricketing life....
Nov 14 2007
CASUAL visitors to the impressive Litherland Sports Park last Friday could have been forgiven for thinking that they were seeing things....
Oct 15 2007
THE CRICKETING links between Merseyside and Greater Manchester look set to become ever stronger over the next few years as Lancashire’s vision for the redevelopment of Old Trafford takes solid shape....