Lord Bracknell
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We'll have to put something back in the bag if we're gonna lose this one!
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NCL Latest: Lancs v Sussex
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Lancs 125 all out
Sussex currently 12/0 from 3.3 overs
Monty with all the runs.
Incedentally if we win today that will get them right back for the championship game as today they would secure the one day div 2 title if they win or draw...
Sussex currently 12/0 from 3.3 overs
Monty with all the runs.
Incedentally if we win today that will get them right back for the championship game as today they would secure the one day div 2 title if they win or draw...
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Hans Kraay
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bloody hell are we going to win a 1 day game?
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Lancashire 125 all out from 41 overs
Davis 4/14
Sussex 128/1 from 18.2 overs
Montgomerie 66* (47 balls) (11 fours 0 sixes)
Goodwin 59 (56 balls) (9 fours 1 sixes)
Cottey 1* (7 balls) (0 fours 0 sixes)
Sussex win by 9 wickets
That was easy
Davis 4/14
Sussex 128/1 from 18.2 overs
Montgomerie 66* (47 balls) (11 fours 0 sixes)
Goodwin 59 (56 balls) (9 fours 1 sixes)
Cottey 1* (7 balls) (0 fours 0 sixes)
Sussex win by 9 wickets
That was easy
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Sussex produced an awesome National League performance to thrash Lancashire by nine wickets and avenge Saturday's defeat in the County Championship.
Sussex, third from bottom, upset Lancashire's title hopes by demolishing them for 125 in 41 overs before rushing to a nine wicket triumph.
Openers Richard Montgomerie and Murray Goodwin hammered an opening stand of 121 off 100 balls and Sussex clinched it in the 19th over.
It meant a wasted journey for Alan Fordham, the England Cricket Board's cricket operations manager who had brought the trophy up from Lord's ready to present it to Lancashire captain Warren Hegg.
The ceremony will now take place next Sunday when Lancashire travel to Northampton for the last game with the winners clinching the title.
This was Lancashire's first league defeat since May 25 when Scotland shocked them at Old Trafford and since then they had won 12 games to earn promotion after three seasons in the Second Division.
But Hegg had insisted they should go up as champions and everything was set up for them with an estimated 6,000 crowd and the award of county caps to Carl Hooper, Mal Loye, Iain Sutcliffe and John Wood.
Sussex, however, gatecrashed the party. After losing the toss, they soon had Lancashire in trouble on a pitch which encouraged the new ball attack of Billy Taylor and left-armer Paul Hutchison and from 40 for four with their big guns misfiring, the Red Rose side never recovered.
Mark Chilton was their only hope of posting a competitive total but he was the victim of a mix-up with Hegg and was run out for 43, off-spinner Mark Davis cleaning up with four for 14 from nine overs.
Richard Montgomerie put a run of low scores behind him with a free-flowing half-century and four overthrows helped to take Murray Goodwin past the 700-mark for this season.
Goodwin fell for 59 on the brink of victory, leg-spinner Chris Schofield claiming a return catch, but Montgomerie stayed for an unbeaten 66.
Sussex, third from bottom, upset Lancashire's title hopes by demolishing them for 125 in 41 overs before rushing to a nine wicket triumph.
Openers Richard Montgomerie and Murray Goodwin hammered an opening stand of 121 off 100 balls and Sussex clinched it in the 19th over.
It meant a wasted journey for Alan Fordham, the England Cricket Board's cricket operations manager who had brought the trophy up from Lord's ready to present it to Lancashire captain Warren Hegg.
The ceremony will now take place next Sunday when Lancashire travel to Northampton for the last game with the winners clinching the title.
This was Lancashire's first league defeat since May 25 when Scotland shocked them at Old Trafford and since then they had won 12 games to earn promotion after three seasons in the Second Division.
But Hegg had insisted they should go up as champions and everything was set up for them with an estimated 6,000 crowd and the award of county caps to Carl Hooper, Mal Loye, Iain Sutcliffe and John Wood.
Sussex, however, gatecrashed the party. After losing the toss, they soon had Lancashire in trouble on a pitch which encouraged the new ball attack of Billy Taylor and left-armer Paul Hutchison and from 40 for four with their big guns misfiring, the Red Rose side never recovered.
Mark Chilton was their only hope of posting a competitive total but he was the victim of a mix-up with Hegg and was run out for 43, off-spinner Mark Davis cleaning up with four for 14 from nine overs.
Richard Montgomerie put a run of low scores behind him with a free-flowing half-century and four overthrows helped to take Murray Goodwin past the 700-mark for this season.
Goodwin fell for 59 on the brink of victory, leg-spinner Chris Schofield claiming a return catch, but Montgomerie stayed for an unbeaten 66.
Should give us confidence for the big one.
Sussex By The Sea
Sussex By The Sea
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Lord Bracknell said:It's just like cricket, Matt, except we know we're going to lose and it doesn't matter.
Haha! Just got back from Old Trafford and the most comprehensively good Sussex one-day performance I can remember. Hooper and Law both out in single figures, brilliant bowling and fielding, and splendid batting from Monty and Murray.
Oh, and I got to have breakfast in Trof in Fallowfield before the game, which is one of the world's great cafes.
Sadly we will finish bottom-4 in the NL this year which means we have to play a "major" county in the third round of next year's CGT. But the win should give us confidence for Lestoh at Hove on Wednesday... what a shame I can't be there...
