Pears bowl out Lancashire cheaply at Worcester

Fri, August 28, 2026 at 6:11 PM UTC

0

Beyers Swanepoel has now taken 28 Championship wickets in seven matches for Worcestershire this summer

Rothesay County Championship, New Road, Worcester (day two)

Lancashire 180: Jennings 55, Bailey 34, Swanepoel 4-37, Singh 3-27

Worcestershire 12-1 (6 overs)

Worcestershire (3 pts) trail Lancashire (0 pts) by 168 runs with nine wickets standing

Match scorecard

Worcestershire made the most of the bowler-friendly conditions at New Road as Lancashire were bowled out for 180.

Having lost day one to rain, the home side bowled out the visitors cheaply largely thanks to paceman Beyers Swanepoel (4-37) and spinner Fateh Singh (3-27).

Former Lancashire skipper Keaton Jennings hit 55, while tailender Tom Bailey made 34, as the final two visiting wickets added 65 runs, before he then claimed the late wicket of home opener Dan Lategan.

But, after bad light ended play, Worcestershire will resume on 12-1 on Saturday.

Advertisement

Invited to bat first on an overcast morning, Lancashire endured a challenging start when Matty Hurst edged Tom Taylor to backward point.

When Matthew Waite and Swanepoel struck in quick succession to remove Josh Bohannon and Marcus Harris cheaply, Lancs were 23-3.

But Jennings was joined by the in-form Rocky Flintoff, who made 23 to help add 37 for the fourth wicket.

He fell to spinner Singh, courtesy of a sharp Ben Allison catch at first slip, to leave Lancs 6-4 at lunch. Singh then had Arav Shetty well caught after the restart by Rehaan Edavalath.

Jennings completed his sixth Championship half-century of the summer before edging to second slip.

County Championship: Notts pass 200 at Edgbaston, plus eight more games

Resuming after a brief delay for rain, Lancashire's problems mounted when George Balderson first played down the wrong line to a Swanepoel ball that clattered into off stump, before Nauman Ali was trapped LBW by Ben Allison without scoring.

A plucky 26 from Ben Walkden proved valuable before a second rain interruption of the day meant play was halted again.

On the restart, Lancs number 10 Bailey added a useful 34 - and that sparked the visitors into life just four balls into the reply.

First, Bailey snared last week's maiden centurion Lategan and he could have had two in the over had Edavalath's edge carried to keeper Hurst. But Jake Libby and Edavalath survived the remaining five overs before the light went just before the six o'clock Worcester Cathedral bells.

Report by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay.

Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport

Original Article on Source

Source: “AOL Sports”