Worcestershire Vs Lancashire North Group 31 May 2024

North Group • County Ground • Worcester

Lancashire

169/5 (20)

Worcestershire

172/5 (19.3)

WOR won by 5 wickets

Info

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Scorecard

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Mini Games

Date & Time

31 May, 10:00 PM IST

Venue

County Ground, New Road, Worcester

Match

North Group,

Vitality Blast

Umpires

Paul Pollard (England ), Chris Watts (England )

Referee

Simon Hinks (England )

Toss

Worcestershire elected to bowl

Pitch Report

PitchGreen Pitch

Pace BowlingPace & Bounce

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingSlow Spin

1st Innings

168Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

144.72Avg SR

2nd Innings

160Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

145.09Avg SR

Weather Update

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

WOR

4- 5

LAN

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Worcestershire

Lancashire

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Luke Wells

LAN . ALL

49 Runs

1 Match

Ethan Brookes

WOR . BAT

42 Runs

1 Match

Gareth Roderick

WOR . WK

25 Runs

1 Match

Top Bowlers

Tom Aspinwall

LAN . ALL

4 Wkts

1 Match

Jack Blatherwick

LAN . BOWL

3 Wkts

1 Match

Luke Wood

LAN . BOWL

2 Wkts

1 Match

LAN

WOR

Info

Lancashire

169/5 (20)

Batters

Josh Bohannon

0.00

c Finch b Smith

Luke Wells

130.77

c Taylor b D'Oliveira

George Bell

0.00

c Roderick b Smith

Tom Bruce

0.00

b Taylor

Matthew Hurst

132.35

lbw b Taylor

Steven Croft

157.58

Not out

Chris Green

172.22

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 4, W: 1)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.45)

169/5

Did not Bat

Tom Aspinwall, Luke Wood, Mitchell Stanley, Jack Blatherwick

Bowlers

EXT

Nathan Smith

8.00

Adam Finch

7.80

Tom Taylor

15.70

Josh Cobb

4.00

Hayden Walsh

5.00

Brett D'Oliveira

8.25

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Josh Bohannon

c Finch b Smith

1-0

0.3

George Bell

c Roderick b Smith

2-0

0.6

Tom Bruce

b Taylor

3-13

3.3

Luke Wells

c Taylor b D'Oliveira

4-63

8.4

Matthew Hurst

lbw b Taylor

5-110

14.5

Worcestershire

172/5 (19.3)

Batters

Brett D'Oliveira

129.79

c Bruce b Green

Matthew Waite

161.11

b Stanley

Josh Cobb

86.67

c Wood b Croft

Adam Hose

255.56

b Wells

Ethan Brookes

111.11

c Wood b Wells

Ed Pollock

133.33

Not out

Tom Taylor

162.50

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 1, NB: 2, W: 3)

TOTAL

(19.3 Ov, RR: 8.82)

172/5

Did not Bat

Gareth Roderick, Hayden Walsh, Adam Finch, Nathan Smith

Bowlers

EXT

Luke Wood

6.75

Tom Aspinwall

3.3

9.14

Jack Blatherwick

17.00

Mitchell Stanley

8.50

Luke Wells

6.00

Chris Green

10.33

Steven Croft

11.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Matthew Waite

b Stanley

1-55

5.6

Josh Cobb

c Wood b Croft

2-84

10.6

Adam Hose

b Wells

3-114

13.2

Ethan Brookes

c Wood b Wells

4-126

15.1

Brett D'Oliveira

c Bruce b Green

5-148

16.5

Match Info

Date & Time

31 May, 10:00 PM IST

Venue

County Ground, New Road, Worcester

Match

North Group,

Vitality Blast

Umpires

Paul Pollard (England ), Chris Watts (England )

Referee

Simon Hinks (England )

Toss

Worcestershire elected to bowl

4 1 4 2 W 1

Over 17

Runs: 12

1 0 1wd 0 1 1 1

Over 18

Runs: 5

1 1lb 1 2 1 4

Over 19

Runs: 10

1 1 6

Over 20

Runs: 8

All Overs

Commentary

That's all the coverage that we have of the T20 Blast for you today. We'll be back with more of the same tomorrow - keep an eye on our tabs for that, and of course, a lot more! This is Rajarshi Das, signing off on behalf of Arya Sekhar Chakraborty. Good night!

Match summary:

Worcestershire Rapids win by 5 wickets with 3 balls to spare

Brett D'Oliveira 61(47) | Nathan Smith 2/32 (4)
Steven Croft 52*(33) | Luke Wells 2/24 (4)

Unlike the first innings, the two openers did well to see off the first three overs - two from Luke Wood and the other from Tom Aspinwall. The opening duo of Brett D'Oliveira and Matthew Waite then cut loose - Waite launched into Jack Blatherwick in the fourth over, throwing him off his lengths, and clobbered 14 off the second half of the first over. Aspinwall then went for three boundaries as D'Oliveira picked his areas nicely.

Mitchell Stanley charged in with sheer pace in the final over of the powerplay, lost his line momentarily but came back to rattle Waite's stumps. Stanley, Luke Wells and Chris Green then proceeded to apply a bit of squeeze - akin to what the Worcs spinners did in the first innings. Josh Cobb succumbed to it, but Adam Hose then came in, took a couple of deliveries, and then went on the attack.

By the time Hose was cleaned up by Wells off a shortish delivery, he ensured a turn in tide with a brisk 9-ball 23 with three sixes. Brett D'Oliveira then took charge, bringing up his half-century with an onslaught of sorts as we headed into the final four overs. D'Oliveira looked set to take the hosts home, but once he picked out Bruce at deep square off Green, Lancashire had a sight at a ray of hope.

While Tom Aspinwall and Luke Wood did their best to force the game to the last over, mixing their lengths and variations up nicely, Lancashire had far too less to defend. A poor bit of fielding from Chris Green off the last ball of the penultimate over further aggravated the visitors' cause, and Taylor smashed the third delivery of the last over down the ground to seal the deal for the Rapids.

19.3 Tom Aspinwall to Tom Taylor, SIX! Tom Taylor has won the game for Worcestershire. On a length around the middle stump channel, Taylor makes some space and launches this downtown clearing the straight boundary. Worcestershire win by 5 wickets.

19.2 Tom Aspinwall to Ed Pollock, fuller-length delivery outside off, driven towards the sweeper cover fielder for a single. 4 needed off 4 balls.

19.1 Tom Aspinwall to Tom Taylor, a full toss a shade outside off, sliced away towards the cover region for a single.

Dear dear! Luke Wood did his best to keep things tight in the penultimate with his lengths, but a terrible error from Chris Green sees the Worcs needing 6 off 6.

overs

164 /5 score

1lb

runs

Ed Pollock *

15 (11)

Tom Taylor

6 (6)

Luke Wood

0 /27

18.6 Luke Wood to Ed Pollock, FOUR! Sloppy work by Chris Green at long off allowing the Rapids to find which could turn out to be a massive boundary. Fuller-length a shade outside off, smashed down the ground but was straight to Green who makes a meal of that. Just 6 more required off the final over.

18.5 Luke Wood to Tom Taylor, short from Wood and that has been pulled away by Taylor down towards deep midwicket for a single.

18.4 Luke Wood to Tom Taylor, low full toss on the pads which has been flicked away towards the deep square leg region, has enough time to scamper back for a brace.

18.3 Luke Wood to Ed Pollock, fuller-length delivery a shade outside off, drills this down towards long off from the bottom half of the bat, has to settle for a single.

18.2 Luke Wood to Tom Taylor, short delivery from Wood, was perhaps a slower one, Taylor early into the attempted pull, off his body down towards the off side and takes a leg bye single.

18.1 Luke Wood to Ed Pollock, a low full toss a shade outside off, sliced away on the up, down towards sweeper cover for a single.

Luke Wood (3-0-18-0) is back into the attack

Right - 16 needed off the last two. Aspinwall did well to contain the batters having tried to hit the blockhole more often.

overs

154 /5 score

1wd

runs

Ed Pollock *

9 (8)

Tom Taylor

3 (3)

Tom Aspinwall

0 /24

17.6 Tom Aspinwall to Ed Pollock, slices away the full wide one outside off, down towards deep point for a single.

17.5 Tom Aspinwall to Tom Taylor, Taylor makes some room and digs away the fuller one, down towards long on for a single.

17.4 Tom Aspinwall to Ed Pollock, full toss well outside off, Pollocks flays it away from the outside half of the bat, down towards the short third man fielder and takes a single.

17.3 Tom Aspinwall to Ed Pollock, full and wide again, Aspinwall gets this one right, Pollocks goes flashing at that and gets beaten.

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