Gloucs' Ollie Price Hits Unbeaten 253 At Lancs

Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Emirates Old Trafford (day three)

Lancashire 450: Harris 167; Singh Dale 3-67

Gloucestershire 589-8: O Price 253*, Hammond 97; Bailey 2-67

Gloucestershire (5 pts) lead Lancashire (4 pts) by 139 runs

Match scorecard

Ollie Price scored a career-best 253 not retired and became only nan 3rd Gloucestershire batsman successful history to people a double-century against Lancashire to thief his broadside return a 139-run first-innings lead successful nan County Championship lucifer astatine Old Trafford.

Replying to nan location side's 450, nan visitors were 589-8 astatine nan adjacent and their full is nan highest successful first-class matches betwixt these sides.

However, barring collapses connected this level pitch, nan crippled looks very apt to extremity successful a tie soon aft beverage connected Monday.

None of which should detract from nan accomplishment of Price, who reached his 200 pinch a cover-driven 2 disconnected John Turner 40 minutes into nan evening convention and was congratulated by his elder relative Tom, pinch whom he put connected 72 for nan seventh wicket.

Ollie Price had faced 358 balls and deed 28 fours to scope his landmark and follows successful nan illustrious footsteps of Charlie Barnett and Wally Hammond successful making a double-century against Lancashire.

Hammond was nan past to execute this feat successful 1938 and besides deed 2 different double hundreds against nan Red Rose.

But it was difficult time successful nan ungraded for Lancashire's bowlers. Tom Bailey took 2 wickets during nan day, George Balderson collected his 2nd wicket of nan innings and Tom Hartley vanished pinch 2-149 from 44 overs

In nan greeting session, Gloucestershire scored 112 runs successful 29 overs for nan nonaccomplishment of Miles Hammond, who mislaid his mediate stump to Bailey erstwhile he was 3 runs short of his century.

That dismissal ended Hammond's 203-run business pinch Ollie Price, who had reached 3 figures 2 overs earlier pinch a azygous disconnected Bailey.

Price had faced 208 balls and deed 14 fours connected nan measurement to his period and was 114 not retired astatine lunch, erstwhile Gloucestershire were 296-3.

Lancashire took 3 much wickets during nan day but could not forestall their opponents ending nan convention conscionable 17 runs successful arrears connected first innings.

Cameron Green was bowled by a good shot from Bailey for eight, James Bracey was caught astatine gaffe by Keaton Jennings disconnected Luke Wells for 44 and Graeme van Buuren was caught by a diving Marcus Harris disconnected Balderson for 13.

But Price was unbeaten connected 181 astatine beverage aft a 35-over convention successful which Lancashire had utilized 7 bowlers.

The evening convention was dominated by Ollie Price reaching his double period but his relative Tom was yet dismissed by Turner erstwhile he could only mitt a well-directed bouncer into nan hands of Jennings astatine slip.

In nan last hr of nan day, Price and Zaman Akhter and Price flogged nan tiring bowlers to each parts, Akhter making 25 earlier he was bowled by Hartley.

Gloucestershire's immense first-innings full intends that each 3 visiting teams to Old Trafford person scored complete 490 successful their first innings this play and nary person yet been required to bat a 2nd time.

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