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Lancashire made steady progress on the 1rst day of their two-day matchat the Police Park Cricket Ground against the Sri Lankan State Services.
The visitors were made to bat 1rst and achieved a 1rst-innings total of270/8 declared, as Steven Croft, Luke Procter and Jordan Clark all made half-centuries.
Their Sri Lankan opponents had initially decided to bat 1rst, but then changed theirmind, but when it was their turn to bat later in the day they recovered to 75/2 afterthey had lost a wicket with only the third ball of their innings.
Lancashire had been pegged back by an eye-catching knock from Dishan (49) whosmashed his way towards 1fty before he fell to the 1nal delivery of the day to SimonKerrigan.
The hosts made an early breakthrough when Luis Reece (11) was caught behindwith the score at 21-1. Ashwell Prince (17) soon followed when he was bowled
behind his legs in the 13th over.
A rocky start continued for Lancashire when Liam Livingstone (14) was caught andbowled, as Sandaruwan (2-23) collected his second wicket of the innings at 46-3.
Lancashire recovered to 85-3 at lunch and after the interval Croft (57) and Procter(68) continued to rebuild the innings, accumulating 113 runs for the fourth-wicketpartnership.
Croft hit just three fours, but soon followed with a half-century of his own taking theirpartnership beyond 100 runs, before the Blackpool-born all-rounder was caught at
LancashireMake SteadyProgress onDay OneBy Luke Adams 31.03.2015
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1rst slip off the hosts spin bowler.
One wicket brought another as Procter was then caught at backward point,attempting to play a cut shot, to give spinner Priyadarshana his 1rst wicket.
Lancashire reached 187/5 at tea and were neither in trouble, nor in command ofproceedings, but two more impressive knocks ensured that the visitors posted arespectable total.
Jordan Clark went on the assault after the interval and hit three sixes on his way toan eye-catching half-century, hitting a huge six in to the leg side to reach thismilestone.
Clark’s (56) innings was halted by a smart catch from the hosts wicket keeperwhich removed the Lancashire all-rounder. Clark and Alex Davies had added 87 forthe sixth-wicket stand and the latter continued an impressive knock, now joined byStephen Parry (3*).
Davies (42) started to play aggressively and was caught in the covers. A Lancashiredeclaration beckoned and when George Edwards (0) was trapped LBW byRathnapriva, the visitors declared immediately on 270-8.
The visitors made the perfect start to their response when Toby Lester trapped thehosts opening batsman leg before wicket with the third ball of the innings beforethe Sri Lankan out1t ] had been able to register a run.
Edwards shared the new ball but remained wicketless, but was the victim of Dishan’searly intent and was hit for a huge six as he helped the Sri Lankan hosts to recover to50-1 after just nine overs.
Although Kerrigan was responsible claiming the wicket of Dishan, a lot of credit mustgo to Gavin Grif1ths, who took a superb catch running around at long-on, as thehosts ended the 1rst day on 75-2.
Lancashire team: Reece, Prince, Livingstone, Croft, Procter, Clark, Davies, Parry,Kerrigan, Edwards, Lester, Grif?ths.
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