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Sep 11 2007
LANCASHIRE manager Mike Watkinson has announced an unchanged 12-man squad for the crucial home match against Warwickshire at Old Trafford today....
Sep 11 2007
LANCASHIRE finished their 2007 Northern Counties League campaign as runners-up, one point behind Yorkshire, after a 9-9 draw in the final match against Durham at South Shields....
Sep 8 2007
LANCASHIRE’S championship challenge was revived by both batsmen and bureaucrats at Blackpool yesterday....
Sep 7 2007
LANCASHIRE’S hopes of winning the 2007 county championship could be hit by a crippling eight-point penalty after pitch liaison officer Philip Sharpe convened a panel to adjudicate on a Stanley Park wicket where 18 batsmen were dismissed on the first day of yesterday’s LV Division One game against Durham....
Sep 3 2007
FIRWOOD Bootle and Greenmount will make a second attempt to decide the destiny of the 2007 LCB Knock-Out Trophy next Sunday after their bid to play the final was ended by the persistent rain at Aigburth yesterday....
Sep 1 2007
HALF-CENTURIES by Paul Horton and Steven Croft helped Lancashire to secure a draw against Kent at Canterbury yesterday after an over-cautious declaration by Robert Key left the visitors needing an unrealistic 430 off a maximum of 82 overs on a slow, wearing wicket....
Aug 31 2007
LANCASHIRE’S batsmen face a long battle for survival at Canterbury today if they are to secure the 10 points for a draw that would keep their hopes of winning the LV County Championship in reasonable shape....
Aug 30 2007
FIRST-CLASS cricket has been played at Canterbury’s St Lawrence Ground for 160 years and the history of the place is strewn with match-changing performances....
Aug 29 2007
ON the way to collecting his third first-class century of what is becoming a watershed season for him, Lancashire opener Paul Horton was sledged by the Hampshire captain Shane Warne, a man the Sefton Park batsman describes as “the king of spin”....
Aug 29 2007
MARK CHILTON’S bowlers displayed no lack of patience at Canterbury yesterday but it remains to be seen if Kent’s total of 320 for 7 will justify the Lancashire captain’s decision to bat first....