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30/03/2015 14:23Lancashire Win One-Day Fixture on Tour - Lancashire County Cricket Club
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Lancashire made hard work of their 50-over match against a Sri LankanNavy team but the visitors wrapped-up a three-wicket victory thanks toTom Smith (35) and Liam Livingstone (31) who played crucial roles atthe top of the order.
The visitors won the toss and elected to Deld Drst as their Sri Lankan opponentsmade a promising start, progressing to 30 for no loss after 5 overs.
The young duo of Gavin GrifDths and Toby Lester opened the bowling for Lancashireand despite a wicketless start to their spells they were soon rewarded with importantbreakthroughs.
Gurusinghe was caught by Lancashire skipper Tom Smith at mid-on for 20, with thescore at 32 for 1 as GrifDths claimed the Drst wicket of the innings.
Toby Lester then followed with a wicket of his own to remove Silva LBW for 16, withthe hosts now on 48 for 2 from 10 overs, before Clark picked up his Drst wicketleaving the hosts 68-3.
Clark then claimed two further wickets in quick succession with well taken catchesfrom Tom Smith and Alex Davies behind the stumps.
There was no respite from Clark’s onslaught as he then bowled Leelarathna for 10,as the hosts found themselves 81 for 6 in the 19th over before Arron Lilley picked uphis Drst wicket.
Like Clark before him, Lilley made life even more difDcult for the hosts as hedismissed Silva (3) LBW, with the score now 90 for 8 in the 24th over, before Jarvis
Lancashire WinOne-DayFixture on Tour
By Luke Adams 30.03.2015
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picked up the penultimate wicket. GrifDths Dnished off the hosts innings as the SriLankan were bowled out for 136.
Liam Livingstone and Tom Smith opened the Lancashire reply and made a goodstart as the visitors progressed to Lancs 67 for 0 from 7 overs. Smith (35) was thenstumped with the score at 67 for 1.
Livingstone (31), now joined by Karl Brown soon followed Smith when he was caughtat mid-wicket after he had hit three maximums in his innings.
Paul Horton (9) became the third Lancashire wicket to fall with the score at 94 whenhe edged to slips. Lancashire lost their fourth wicket for 32 runs when Brown (18)was dismissed.
The visitors made hard work of their relatively straightforward run chase and matterswere made worse when Steven Croft (16) was caught at deep backward point.
Clark (4) had been successful with the ball but only managed a single boundary as
Lancashire stumbled to 119/6 in the 18th over.
Davies (7) was then trapped LBW attempting to play a reverse sweep, but Lancashireheld their nerve as Parry (6*) and Lilley (5*) guided the visitors to a three wicketvictory.
Lancashire Squad – Smith, Livingstone, Brown, Croft, Clark, Davies, Parry, Lilley,GrifDths, Jarvis, Lester, Horton.
Bowling Dgures: GrifDths (2-19), Lester (1-31), Clark (4-18), Parry (0-18), Lilley (2-26).Jarvis (1-9), Croft (0-12).
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