White Claims Five-Wicket-Haul as Lancashire Dominate Second Day.

White Claims Five-Wicket-Haul as Lancashire Dominate Second Day.

Lancashire had a mixed first day against Sussex in this two-day fixture, but it is fair to say that the second days play belonged to them. After achieving 301-12 from 91 overs, they managed to restrict the opposition 259-11, giving them the

advantage from this friendly fixture. Most

prominently however, winter signing, Wayne White is proving to have been a valuable addition to the team, as he claimed 5 wickets.

Sussex suffered an early blip, when Luke Wells was caught by Stephen Moore off the bowling of Kyle Hogg, scoring just one run. After scoring 76 runs in the twenty20 fixture, Chris Nash utilised the confidence he has acquired from these pre-season fixtures and hit a half century, before he was caught by White, giving Stephen Parry his first wicket.

Michael Yardy was then trapped LBW by Steven Croft for 21, just before the lunchtime interval. At lunch, Sussex were 90-3, with Ed Joyce on 9 and Rory Hamilton-Brown with 1.

Sussex collapsed in the afternoon session, adding 80 runs, for the loss of 5 more wickets, with White claiming 3 for 5 runs in just 4 overs. After loosing their first 10 wickets, Sussex had reached 189, in which White obtained his five-wicket-haul.

At close of play on day two, Sussex had scored 259-11 from 90 overs. Lancashire wickets were taken by: White 5/34; Parry 2/57; Croft 1/20 and Hogg 2/18.

The teams play each other in a 40 overs match tomorrow, where Lancashire will be hoping for a greater challenge than they were presented with when they played the MCC Universities.