Resuming on ten with out loss, Lancashire scored solely 66 runs and misplaced three wickets in 32 overs through the morning session.
And the style of the dismissals epitomised the county’s travails with the bat this season. Having made 17 in 110 minutes Keaton Jennings swept Parkinson to Shaf Ghafari at deep sq. leg; two overs later, nice work by Ben McKinney and Parkinson ran out Michael Jones for 11 after the opener had dithered over a fast single with Bohannon.
A 3rd wicket was wasted when Marcus Harris swung Parkinson to Ghafari at deep midwicket and departed for 11.
1 / 4 of an hour into the afternoon session, Rocky Flintoff was pinned plumb in entrance by Brydon Carse for 11 to depart the Crimson Rose in hassle but once more this season on 87-4. Nonetheless, that wicket was the prelude to a few the calmest hours’ cricket residence spectators at Outdated Trafford have loved in 2026.
Bohannon was joined by Matty Hurst and the pair had placed on an unbroken 78 runs by tea. The afternoon’s cricket was a notable distinction to lots of the periods Lancashire supporters have suffered this yr.
Bohannon reached his first fifty since 10 April when he took a single off Ghafari. He had confronted 132 balls, hit three fours and batted for 153 minutes however none of these statistics mattered when set towards his decided private achievement in ending a dismal run of kind.
After tea, Bohannon and Hurst introduced up their hundred partnership, which was solely Lancashire’s second century stand in Championship cricket since April.
Bohannon reached his century with a leg look off Kasey Aldridge after dealing with 217 balls and batting 254 minutes. It was his seventh boundary and he raised his bat to all of the stands at Outdated Trafford.
Nonetheless, Hurst was bowled for 57 by a ball from Parkinson that turned prodigiously from outdoors leg stump earlier than hitting the highest of off.
However Walkden joined Bohannon and ensured the house aspect would undergo no additional losses on the day when Gloucestershire’s defeat to Kent ensured they might not end backside of the desk.
Lancashire will, although, end seventeenth for the primary time of their historical past.
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