LANCASHIRE AGAIN

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32052, 29 July 1969, Page 15

LANCASHIRE AGAIN

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Lancashire scored its ninth successive win in the English Sunday cricket league when it beat Middlesex by six wickets. The win kept Lancashire at the top of the table after only I one defeat in 11 games. H.! Pilling scored his fifth half-: century in the new league,! contributing 59 of the 92 runs, needed to beat Middlesex.

The county championship' leader, Gloucestershire, lost, by seven wickets against Not-; tinghamshire. The West Indian medium-paced bowler, C. Forbes, took five for 23 as Gloucestershire lost its last five wickets for seven runs.

Essex, second in the league table, lost by two wickets against Somerset in spite of a hard-hit 46 in 52 minutes by the West Indian all-rounder, K. Boyce. The former M.C.C. chairman of selectors, D. Insole, made an unhappy reappearance in first-class cricket for Essex and was run out for a duck. ■ Results:— At Old Trafford: Middlesex 91 I (K. Higgs 3/18) lost to Lancashire 4/92 (H. Pilling 59 not out: F. Titmus 2/22). | At Hove: Sussex 118/9 tinnings

closed, R. Cottam 2/7), lost to Hampshire 120/4 (B. Reed 46 not out). At Swansea: Warwickshire 140 <R. Barber 46, R. Davis 3/23), lost to Glamorgan 144/6 (B. Davis 49 not out; T. Cartwright 4/13). At Bristol: Gloucestershire 138 (C. Forbes 5/23), lost to Nottinghamshire 139/3 (J. Bolus 50). At Yeovil: Essex 126 (K. Boyce 46, G. Chappell 3/34), lost to Somerset 127/8 (K. Boyce 3/15, B. Edmeades 3/22). At the Oval: Surrey 200/6 finnings closed, G. Roope 56), beat Yorkshire 158/6 (innings closed, B. Leadbetter 46, R. Hutton 65). At Leicester: Kent 205/6 (innings closed, B. Luckhurst 76, Asif Iqbal 40; C. Spencer 3/43), beat Leicestershire 203/9 (R. Tolchard 41, J. Birkenshaw 53; R. Woolmer 5/27, J. Graham 3/19). At Derby: Worcestershire 135 (G. Cass 54 J H. Rhodes 3/12) lost to Derbyshire 137/8 (D. Smith 51; B. Brian 3/9).