Saturday 6 August 2011

Horton Guides Lancashire To Valuable Win

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Lancashire beat Gloucestershire 236 4235 6 ​​six wickets

Paul Horton magnificent unbeaten 95 guided Lancashire to victory over Gloucestershire six wickets in their Clydesdale Bank 40 game at Old Trafford.

Horton combined a balloon with a view-123-run unbroken partnership for the fifth wicket with Gareth Cross (66 not out) to guide the hosts to victory with seven balls to spare. Horton, who made 97 not in Lancashire four wicket victory over the Gladiators in Cheltenham last Friday, hit six boundaries in his 91-ball innings.

The right-hander combined effectively with the Cross, who produced his best score of the season, ran their placement skilled bowlers and fielders ragged Alex Gidman to overcome the "visitors 235 for 6th

New Zealand Kane Williamson top scored for the Gladiators with 64, while Ian Cockbain added 59, but it was his players could not produce as Ed Young for a 37 was the best they could.

The pursuit of Lancashire, their goals were to get a bad start when Karl Brown was captured by Ian Saxelby coverage in the report first. But skipper Steven Croft 21 ball 28 is accelerated at the start before Tom Smith and Horton added 56 for the third wicket in under 10 overs.

Although Vikram Banerjee Smith died away, when he was 29, and Jordan Clark was hit on the left impressive slow to equip young people for eight people, the arrival of the Cross at 113 for four key marked a renaissance in Lancashire fortunes.

Williamson had previously provided the backbone of the soundtrack of Gloucestershire who managed 64 from 75 balls despite hitting only two boundaries. The promising 20-year-old New Zealander has worked the ball striking and his colleagues struggled against the spinners on a slowish window.

The Gladiators had reached 139, when Williamson was fourth in the exit of 29 Cockbain and Jonathan Batty taking the attack on the home bowlers. The fifth wicket pair performed their task with impressive 59 Cockbain

50 balls - his second Clydesdale Bank 40 / 2 centuries in six days against the County, he was playing at a younger age. Cockbain added 69 runs less than 10 overs with Batty before the Gloucestershire wicketkeeper hit by the long-off by Stephen Parry, 29 This gave a slow left Armer Parry is in his third wicket as he finished three innings 40

It was, however, a feast for the poor of the Red Rose of Pakistan seamer Junaid Khan, who took 1 of 54 in Gloucestershire rang 89 runs in the last 10 acquisitions.

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