Posted by Brian Sanderson,
On a cloundy morning myself and Brian Senior set off on the M62 to visit Lancashire against Essex at Old Trafford. It had started raining over the moors but when we arrived it had stopped.I usually park the car in the ground but they wanted to charge £10 so parked in a local street for nothing.
On arriving in the ground the first person we saw was Gerry from Middlesex. He had got a free ticket from Godleman,ex Middlesex player.The ground was two thirds shut so we had to watch the match at the Brian Statham end and had to look at the new red building next to the pavilion.Not a nice sight.
Essex were batting with Grant Flower and Masters.Essex got to 299 for 7 needing one run for a extra batting point.Kerrigan bowled three dot bowls, Chris Wright was trapped l,b.w with the fourth before Kaneria play one of the worst shots of the season to be bowled so failing to get the point.
Kerrigan completed his career best of 6 for 74.We went into Manchester for lunch and came back to see Lancashire had lost 5 wickets.However the Chinese was nice.
Lancashire were 101 for 7 until Mahmood reached his fourth half century. They struggled to 184 all out at about 5 o,clock.Essex reached 26 for 1 with Godleman out at the end of the day.
Not a good day for Lancashire but we enjoyed it.
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