Gloucestershire’s hopes fade

Press, 27 August 1977, Page 22

Gloucestershire’s hopes fade

I NZPA-Reuter London Gloucestershire's hope® of win- S ning the English country cricket c championship for the first time! • in exactly 100 years were jolted’( when they failed to force a vic : i tory ote’r Warwickshire this r > week. I The championship leader j Kent’s match was abandoned be- 1 I cause of tain but Gloucestershire i r I was forced to give up hopes of t iclosing the gap after the Eng-It Hand fast bowler. Bob Willis,! j struck again. 1 1 I Willis, who finished with a ! I career-best eight for 32 in the > first innings, took three quick 1 wickets and Glucestershire struggled to avoid defeat after ‘ being set 222 to win. It survived ■ to get a draw. 1 Sussex’s two Pakistanis, Imran’ 1 Khan and Javed Miandad. were Jon top term against Hampshire. I , Javed cracked 109 not out, his | [third centurs of the season, then .Imran snapped up five wickets Jfor 51 ■ Their fellow-countr'man, Mush- . '[t«q, uho lesigned this week as I Northamptonshire captain, I finished on a note of anti climax. The match with Glamorgan xvas - abandoned without a ball being j bowled ‘ The following three matches were abandoned because of rain 1 At Colchester: Essex 73/1 v Leicestershire. At Northampton: Northampton‘shire v. Glamorgan. At Canterbury : Kent 313/7 <A. f Knott 83 not buti v. Somerset Other matches: j At Trent Bridge: Surrey 79 and

313/8 (G. Roops HI) not nut, U. Skinner 43, Intfkhah Alam 411. drew with Nottinghamshire 256 Al Hove: Sussex 303/4 de lared (Javed Miandad 109 not out, Imran Khan 44 not out: and 69 2 drew with Hampshire 2:8 (C. Rice 7), Imran Khan 5/50i. At Chesterfield Worcestershire 167/7 declared (B D’Oliveira 83 not out; M Hendrick 4/19i, lost to Derbyshire 168/6 J. Bomntton 67 not out'. At Bristol Warwickshire 139 and 161/7 declared 'D. Amiss 8('l, drew with Gloucestershire 79 (R. Willis 8/32. E. Hammings 2/6) and 1108/7 (R. Willis 3/40). : At Bradford Lancashire 302'4 ! declared and 108 <P. Carrick 6/37) lost to Yorkshire 234/9 declared (C. Croft 4/58' and 177/5 (R. Lumb 77. R. I,ee 4/34 .