There was a wicket in the second over of the day to get Middlesex going as makeshift opener George Balderson was undone by a Higgins delivery that nipped back to have him lbw for eight.<\/p>\n
Jennings and Josh Bohannon then combined to put on 56 – in what turned out to be the highest partnership of the innings – although the bowling remained tight.<\/p>\n
But Higgins returned for his second spell and struck with his first ball as Bohannon tickled it behind for 20.<\/p>\n
There was then a big third wicket before lunch as Australia batter Marcus Harris (five) was deceived by a ball outside off-stump and scooped it to mid-on where Naavya Sharma took a good, low diving catch to leave the hosts 74-3.<\/p>\n
Only four more runs were added before lunch and after the interval, Jennings brought up his third half-century in five innings off 107 balls as Lancashire looked to rebuild.<\/p>\n
But Michael Jones was cleaned up by a lovely delivery from teenager Morgan to make it 115-4 to go for 27 and that became 128-5 as a frantic innings from Matty Hurst (seven) ended with him offering a simple catch to fourth slip off Sharma.<\/p>\n
Green joined Jennings at the crease and while the overseas player was dropped on 13, Middlesex claimed the prize scalp when Roland-Jones produced a fine ball that Jennings nicked behind to leave the hosts in trouble at 151-6.<\/p>\n
While only 13 runs later, Tom Hartley was caught behind for three to give Higgins his third wicket.<\/p>\n
Bad light produced an early tea before the last rites of Lancashire’s innings were played out as Tom Bailey fell for 11, Mitch Stanley was clean bowled by Roland-Jones for one and Green was last man to fall, bowled by Morgan as the 18-year-old finished with fine figures of 3-41. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a wicket in the second over of the day to get Middlesex going as makeshift opener…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-658689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}