Worcestershire skipper Brett D’Oliveira and all-rounder Matthew Waite shared an unbroken stand of 97 to ensure their side drew their County Championship match against Lancashire.<\/p>\n
The pair came together with the visitors on 114-5 in the second innings, giving them a lead of 103 in mid-afternoon, when there were still 44 overs in the game.<\/p>\n
But they defied an attack led by James Anderson, whose figures of 2-27 from 15 overs did him no sort of justice, and the draw was certain long before the players shook hands with Worcestershire on 21-5, with D’Oliveira on 46 not out and Waite unbeaten on 47.<\/p>\n
Lancashire earned 12 points from the game whereas Worcestershire took 11.<\/p>\n
Morning showers caused play to begin half an hour late and Lancashire immediately declared on their overnight 281-8 in the hope they could put immediate pressure on Worcestershire’s top order.<\/p>\n
For ten overs the plan failed utterly as Lategan and Jake Libby put on 47 fluent runs, levying seven boundaries off Anderson and Tom Bailey in the process. <\/p>\n
Then Lancashire’s skipper struck twice in three balls; he nipped one back off the pitch to have Libby lbw for 21 and in his next over, he dismissed Gareth Roderick for a second-ball nought when the Worcestershire batsman pushed forward hesitantly and edged a catch to Keaton Jennings at first slip.<\/p>\n
However, the other members of the Lancashire attack were nothing like as incisive and the visitors reached lunch on 77-2, giving them a lead of 66. <\/p>\n
Anderson returned to the attack immediately after lunch in the hope of precipitating a collapse but Lategan and Kashif Ali seemed in little trouble on a pitch that had barely three days’ use, even including the women’s match played on the wicket last Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Lancashire were in need of inspiration but instead they received a gift when Kashif Ali chipped a full toss from Tom Hartley straight to mid-wicket and was caught by Harry Singh for 16. <\/p>\n
The gravity of Kashif’s error was emphasised two balls later when Adam Hose was bowled by a fine delivery from Hartley and thus collected the innings’ second two-ball nought. <\/p>\n
That left Worcestershire on 90-4, with a lead of only 79, and the game was once again in the hazard.<\/p>\n
The visitors’ peril increased half an hour later when a plainly furious Lategan was caught behind by Hurst off Paul Coughlin for 48 when the lead had increased to only 103.<\/p>\n
That was as near as Worcestershire got to defeat. D’Oliveira and Waite immediately began to defend the good balls competently and pick up the runs where available. <\/p>\n
The score was 159-5 at tea, by which time, the draw was almost certain and the spectators were left to reflect what might have happened had the match not lost over a day’s play to rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worcestershire skipper Brett D’Oliveira and all-rounder Matthew Waite shared an unbroken stand of 97 to ensure their side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591537","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\/591537","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=591537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}