{"id":32504,"date":"2025-07-30T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32504\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:14:09","slug":"county-championship-green-gives-lancs-upper-hand-over-glamorgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32504\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Green gives Lancs upper hand over Glamorgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan recalled captain Sam Northeast after paternity leave and leg-spinner Mason Crane, for Billy Root and the injured Timm van der Gugten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Lancashire included seamer Tom Bailey in place of Jack Blatherwick, and handed county caps to Phil Salt and George Balderson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In overcast and damp conditions, the visitors&#8217; openers Zain Ul Hassan and Tribe saw off the initial threat, as James Anderson bowled 21 dot balls before conceding, while Tom Bailey got through a probing nine-over spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tribe took rare consecutive boundaries off Anderson in his second spell, while Ul Hassan shared in a stand of 75 before he was undone by the spin of Green, the tall Australian international bowling into some early footmarks and having him caught behind for 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northeast fell after lunch lbw to Green for 10 and Tribe&#8217;s excellent innings came to an end with his first real error of 118 balls faced, slog-sweeping Green to the longer square boundary where Bailey took the catch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carlson and Colin Ingram realised the danger of being pinned down and mounted the occasional counter-attack in a high-quality battle against Green in particular. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carlson reached his 50 off 90 balls just before tea, but shortly after the break Ingram fell for 33 lbw sweeping at Green after a useful partnership of 86. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bailey claimed the day&#8217;s first seam success when Ben Kellaway was bowled without scoring in a rare failure for the young all-rounder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game really tilted in the hosts&#8217; favour with four wickets falling for 30, Carlson&#8217;s mature knock ended when he edged Green to slip while Chris Cooke, after a slow start, was stumped for six off Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Harris and Mason Crane dragged Glamorgan to a consolation batting point before Harris (11) missed a slog-sweep off left-arm spinner Tom Hartley, though Crane and Leonard survived under pressure to take the innings into a second day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire&#8217;s Chris Green told BBC Lancashire Sport:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All our bowlers stuck at it really well, we were very unlucky early on and beat the bat a lot and could have had a few wickets there. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We spoke about it at lunch and even at tea, just to outlast them and the game could turn quickly, so to take wickets in groups and have them eight down overnight, we&#8217;re in a great position and we&#8217;ve controlled the scoreboard nicely as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to have things conducive on day one with a few footholes, the plan was to put balls in the right areas and fortunately for me it was my day and I enjoyed bowling out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The way it looked early, I thought the seamers would do a job but we&#8217;ve only got three, so Tommy (Hartley) and myself knew we&#8217;d have a role to play. There was enough in the wicket to ask questions and get rewarded when we did it the right way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan&#8217;s Asa Tribe told BBC Sport Wales:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a tricky pitch, they bowled nicely early on and there&#8217;s definitely spin there, so we&#8217;re in somewhat of a good position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was about assessing the conditions quickly, trying to get through the tricky early conditions and build a partnership, which Zain and me did nicely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;(Batting against James Anderson) is the kind of challenge you always want to face, so I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ve had that experience and glad he didn&#8217;t get my number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Kiran plays spin really nicely so I wasn&#8217;t surprised when he got runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;(Green bowling all day) is a tale of what&#8217;s to come, it&#8217;s going to be tricky against spin and we&#8217;ve got two very good spinners so good luck to them batting out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan recalled captain Sam Northeast after paternity leave and leg-spinner Mason Crane, for Billy Root and the injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-32504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}