You know it's a serious batting line up when willey is 9, plunkett 10 and Deirdre 11. Quite a contrast to years gone by with mullally at 8!

To say it's only a group game in domestic t20 I'm quite mad about it. I can take losing (just) but it happened a few years back when bresnan changed his bat three times, where we were punished, Horton went mental and got a ban if memory serves. Hypocritical because if it was applied in the 2014 final vs Warwickshire we would have won that. Had Lancs not taken a wicket in that penultimate over we'd have made time. Or had we bowled the spin over first we'd have made time. When the margins are that tight it's a @#/? rule. Seems like it's a punish Lancs if guilty otherwise ignore it rule.

After getting throughly thrashed got to the point where Notts needed 15 off last over. Then Notts were given 6 extra runs because of Lancs slow over rate. Bit harsh to say there was 8 wickets and 10 6s which take bit of time out of the game. 9 off 6 becomes lot less daunting.

Yorkshire put your hands up show me your 6 fingers. Show me your 6 fingers. Hmmm wonder where I've heard that

Yarkshite's bloody tail again. Starting to think they don't have a tail and just bat to 11. Unless my maths has gone to @#/? they put on 60 in last 3 overs.

Good effort. Not sure who they have other then moeen Ali who presumably won't be playing and that Canmore or something who got 120 odd the other week. After the rovers debacle and Yorks beating Lancs in the county championship other day could do with a Lancs win tomorrow to lift my sporting spirits. Come on worc suck the life out of them for tomorrow.

If anyone likes Alan Partridge his latest mockumentary Scissored Isle is funny. It was on Sky Atlantic. "I'm going to one of the most deprived areas in Britain, the spiritual home of the needy, Manchester. You only have to hear the locals speak to realise this is an area severely handicapped by poverty. Once an industrial hub, today better known for its teeming gay and lesbian scene and coincidently the arrival of the BBC in Salford."

Just watched the new top gear. Or flop gear as it was dubbed in the papers. Chris Evans is irritating. He's a unique combo of both boring and shouty. In spite of Matt le blanc's criticism I thought he was decent. I'm sure the novelty factor of oh it's joey off friends, look joey, factor will carry him a certain way anyway. He looked totally bewildered at that Blackburn American football team rocking up for the tug of war.

Yeah they are defo favourites but could be an epic run chase. In almost every innings we've had them on the ropes and let it slip. In their first innings had them 74/5 but let them off the hook to 308 all out. In our first inning went from 40/0 to 196 all out which was frustrating. And today in their 2nd innings at 89/6 disappointed to let them get to 236.

Another Brit as world champion. When they were talking about makabu's prolific ko % and bellew was put on his arse in 1st round I thought he was done for.

Bizarre season so far for Lancs. Pre season all the pundits/bookies had Lancs nailed on for relegation in the county championship and currently sit top of the league. In the shorter format go in as reigning champions playing the two usual whipping boys of the t20 north league Derbyshire and Durham at home and both have beaten us inside 14 overs and 15 overs respectively.

Not sure who was the worse fighter the Swiss cheese Haye fought or the argie Briggs beat. I've had better fights with the shower curtain. As for Dave Jesus wept amateur hour it was out of sync for a good 15 minutes. I just assumed it was my tv until someone text me saying their tv was also out.

Very comprehensive win. At 83/5 if someone said will win the game by an innings and 88 runs I'd have thought it would be impossible. 10/45 match figures very decent from Jimmy.

Didn't think for one second 298 as a total would be capable of forcing the follow on.

49/0 to 51/3 not what I wanted to see.

I went on last night with a mate who actually supports them as his main club (seems a rare thing in the crown ground) and had the full intention of wanting stanley to win. But as the game progressed and I thought more about a potential bpool fleetwood scenario I must admit I wasn't bothered at all when they lost the tie. Won't go as far as to say I was glad but one less piranha in the tank I suppose. Frankly I was more concerned with an early dart after being knackered from work so with the massive amounts of injury time, extra time, floodlight failure I would have taken any result expect penalties.

For me Amir khans unpopularity has nothing to do with race. There's be several coloured boxers that have been popular Lewis, Bruno, been, Eubank, going back Johnny nelson and currently Joshua. Of course they all had their naysayers and critics (particularly Eubank) but by and large their popularity held up where Khan's hasn't. I also don't think it's anything to do with religion either because prince naseem was a British Muslim who for all was a marmite type character had lots of fans where Khan doesn't. I don't think he's disliked for being chinny (even though that last ko punch would have taken out a t-Rex) because it takes balls to get into the ring knowing a good punch will put you down. I think his unpopularity is because from my perception at least he comes across as an arrogant jerk. And that feeling of I just don't like that guy. Hell I don't like George groves either and would you believe it he's white. Or perhaps I'm a closet balding ginger phobic. Ultimately people will like and dislike the same fighters for many reasons but try not to play the race card so easily.

Wow had them 83/8

57/5. Top 5 out

Yeah credit for giving it a go. Perhaps he could have stuck to welterweight and potentially dominated. But this is what happens when you chase the dollar. You keep going up a division until you get walloped. I wonder whether it's the perception of Khan chasing pay days that he has very little fans compared to other British boxers like Hatton, calzaghe etc who just seemingly liked a fight then the pay days came naturally as a result. Funny old world for a while it looked like Khan didn't need kel brook as much as brook wanted Khan now it's almost like Khan needs brook more to try and rescue his career.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?autoplay=1&v=ZSrEuE5O33E It was an emphatic ko. Was down for a good while. That Mexican fella called out ggg afterwards as well

Yep. As fast as he is Amir Khan proved once again he's got a chin made of glass

Strongly disagree. Jim are you actually interested in cricket? Or are you just interested in debating who's foreign and who's not with me. Let's make that a rhetorical question. If this is boring everyone half as much as its boring me I apologise. Personal message me if you just want a back and forth about globalisation, who in your opinion should and should not be eligible to play for England (to save you time I auspect for you anybody as long as they come here on their holidays or just really really want to play for us). So let's save everybody the pain of reading 2 blokes with polar opposite opinions argue not concede any ground to the other.

He was a very good player for England but should have never been allowed to play. If he's mid 30s he's still been in his country South Africa longer than he's been in England. Foreigners playing for Lancs is totally different than foreigners playing for England. In the same way the likes of tugay were great for rovers but could, should and probably would never play for England. Maybe just saying where someone is born doesn't make them belong to that county as such like those two. Strauss perhaps another one. But there are certain examples of players who should not play for England. I'm sure in jims world there are no nations and everyone can play for any country they chose. One big happy country. Round in circles we go.

Ffs off you go again round in circles we go. Wish I hadn't said owt. I don't think what I said was that controversial to be honest. Re England those "foreigners" who play may be within whatever criteria they set but in no world should Morgan who is Irish born to Irish parents and brought up in Ireland be playing for England. Same for some of the others as well. Was it trott who was celebrating with the South African players at edgbaston 09 when South Africa beat England. Not a problem with that because guess what he's South African.