Gareth Roderick played a brilliant lone hand with a combative unbeaten 164, Worcestershire’s first hundred of the summer, to force the Pears into a commanding position after an early collapse against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.<\/p>\n
The visitors rued their decision to bat after slumping to 186-9 on day one of this County Championship match, before loanee Oliver Hannon-Dalby joined Roderick at the crease. <\/p>\n
The pair frustrated the home side for two hours, mounting a last-wicket stand of 120, a new Worcestershire record against Northants before they were bowled out for 306.<\/p>\n
Roderick had maintained his composure as wickets fell around him, stroking the ball fluently all around the ground. <\/p>\n
He offered just one chance on 95 when he drilled one back hard at leg-spinner Calvin Harrison, who could not hold the catch and Hannon-Dalby (26) proved the perfect foil, going 30 balls without scoring before starting to locate the boundary as the ball grew soft and the hosts let the game drift.<\/p>\n
Ben Sanderson finished with figures of 4-78, while there were two wickets each for Harrison and Raphy Weatherall. <\/p>\n
Northamptonshire openers Ricardo Vasconcelos and Luke Procter survived a tricky 14 overs before the close, finishing on 40-0.<\/p>\n
Earlier Worcestershire quickly lost Jake Libby in the day’s second over, to a good low catch at second slip by Harrison off Harry Conway.<\/p>\n
Dan Lategan (32) played positively, driving crisply and punching through the covers, but he perished in the same manner when he drove loosely against Sanderson and nicked behind.<\/p>\n
Weatherall was wayward in his opening over before honing his radar, but removed Adam Hose caught down the legside by a diving Lewis McManus.<\/p>\n
Sanderson struck in the next over, nipping one away to draw the edge of opposition skipper Brett D’Oliveira’s bat, leaving the Pears 52-4.<\/p>\n
Roderick who garnered runs down the wicket early, found a willing partner in Ethan Brookes (32) and the pair rebuilt adding 64 either side of lunch.<\/p>\n
Sanderson broke the stand early in the afternoon, jagging one back to trap Brookes lbw before dismissing Matthew Waite in similar fashion in his next over.<\/p>\n
Roderick continued to look solid, driving straight for four before running two to reach his half-century, but soon lost another partner as Tom Taylor was adjudged caught behind, having a big swish outside off stump against Weatherall.<\/p>\n
Beyers Swanepoel clipped Sanderson off his legs to take Worcestershire past 150 but he was soon trapped lbw by Harrison, who then removed Adam Finch in his next over when he edged onto his stumps.<\/p>\n
Roderick continued to play positively, caressing a Conway delivery through the covers and powering Harrison back over his head to move into the 90s. <\/p>\n
And after surviving the dropped catch, he moved to three figures by turning James Sales off his legs for four.<\/p>\n
Roderick then lofted three sixes over deep midwicket off Harrison, the first helped over the ropes by a leaping Conway who couldn’t quite hold on.<\/p>\n
Hannon-Dalby earned one of the day’s biggest cheers when he got off the mark, but he and Roderick surpassed the 10th-wicket record that had stood since 1935 before finally being parted after tea when the former was caught behind off Procter.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Roderick played a brilliant lone hand with a combative unbeaten 164, Worcestershire’s first hundred of the summer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561090","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\/561090","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=561090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}