Nottinghamshire opener Haseeb Hameed fell three runs short of his 13th first-class centuryLV= County Championship Division One, Trent Bridge (day two)Lancashire 214: Hutton 5-66 & 98-1: Balderson 44*Nottinghamshire 249: Hameed 97; Williams 3-31Lancashire (3 pts) lead Notts (3 pts) by 63 runsMatch scorecard
Nottinghamshire’s Haseeb Hameed fell three runs short of a first century of the season before Lancashire took the upper hand on a rain-affected second day of their County Championship match at Trent Bridge.
England strike bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad both finished the day wicketless as Lancashire overturned a first-innings deficit of 35 to lead by 63 runs with nine second-innings wickets in hand.
Haseeb, who captained England Lions during the winter after hitting more than 1,200 first-class runs in 2022, missed out when he was lbw to Will Williams on 97, although it was thanks to his measured five-hour innings that Nottinghamshire, who had been 119-5 overnight, more than doubled their score to be 249 all out.
While Anderson finished 0-49 from 13 overs, three Lancashire bowlers took three wickets each as Williams, Tom Bailey and George Balderson shared the honours, Bailey the most impressive but a miserly Williams bowling 10 maidens as he finished 3-31 from 17.4 overs.
Lancashire’s wish for an early breakthrough was achieved after Nottinghamshire had begun the day five down and still 95 behind the visitors’ first-innings score.
Steven Mullaney, who was only a few short of 1,000 first-class runs last season, looked key to his side wiping out the deficit but fell to the 18th delivery of the first session, mistiming a ball from Williams to give an easy catch to mid-on.
It left responsibility squarely on the shoulders of Hameed at 125-6, but the 26-year old opener was quite unfazed, even when Brett Hutton, squared up by a ball from Bailey, edged behind for seven.
He emerged unscathed from an interesting battle with Anderson, who generally bowled better than he had…
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