an unbeaten 85 off just 31 balls<\/a> in Tuesday’s rain-reduced 10 overs game at Chester-le-Street to add to his 81 off 37 balls against Glamorgan at Blackpool on Sunday.<\/p>\nWith his eight sixes, the all-rounder broke Lancashire coach Steven Croft’s record for most T20 maximums for the Red Rose county and he now has 163.<\/p>\n
Although Livingstone was a frustrated spectator for most of his stint with Sunrisers Hyderabad during the winter, he used the time in the nets to improve playing against spin.<\/p>\n
“I came back from the IPL really hungry to play some cricket, having spent a lot of time sat on the bench,” the former England one-day international captain told BBC Radio Lancashire.<\/p>\n
“I worked hard on my game in the nets, trying to put it all into practice.<\/p>\n
“The over against [Callum] Parkinson in the power play, without the three months at the IPL, working a lot on my game against spin, I don’t think I could have done that last year.<\/p>\n
“I’ve just been trying to get better at what I wasn’t very good at, which was playing against spin and hitting seamers over the offside.<\/p>\n
“I felt there were a couple of shots at Blackpool I hit over extra cover and I even hit a couple over mid-off off a spinner today, which I don’t think I would have done over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n
“I knew I wasn’t going to play much in the IPL, so it was a good chance to strip it back, bat a lot in the nets against really good spinners – and their spinners out there are as good as you will face in the world.<\/p>\n
“It was some great practice and looking back now, I made the most out of a difficult three months being sat on the sidelines, not being able to do what I love.”<\/p>\n
Livingstone, who also bowled Durham opener Alex Lees, says Lancashire badly needed the win after three successive losses.<\/p>\n
He enjoyed opening the batting in the truncated match and said: “I’ve played a bit of T10 cricket so that helped. Yeah, it was good fun. We needed a win, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n
“Because it was such a good wicket, you just try to get your best players in to try and face as many balls as possible. I think that’s pretty much the best way to go.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Livingstone feels he is benefitting from his unhappy time sat on the bench at the Indian Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632370","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\/632370","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=632370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}