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Ajeet Singh Dale and Tom Bailey, the latter a star performer at Wantage Road, congratulate each other on sharing a second-innings, ninth-wicket fifty partnership Luke Adams/Lancashire Cricket
Opinion

Frustration but encouragement as Lancs start with stalemate

The new ball was obviously key, and there were times when it looked very much like a game played last year with the Kookaburra ball and not the Dukes.

07.04.26, 09:00 Updated 06.04.26, 22:16 4 Minute Read

Graham Hardcastle

Graham Hardcastle

“Don’t panic, Mr Mainwaring!”

Lancashire fans would do well to take a leaf out of Corporal Jones’s phrasebook after a hugely frustrating end to a dominant - but not perfect - display against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road, which finished yesterday.

There are no doubts that day four evoked memories of a 2025 summer which left us with an ‘Ah, Bugger’ feeling on more than the odd occasion.

But if they just touch up on a few areas, it will surely happen sooner rather than later for Steven Croft and Sir James Anderson, et al.

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