Watch: Ben Stokes was bowled by Lancashire part-time rewriter Luke Wells attempting to reverse-sweep as Durham looked for a not likely triumph on the last day’s play in Blackpool today (May 20).
The England Test captain was playing his initial County Championship game of the year after pulling out of the T20 World Cup to concentrate on guaranteeing he’s healthy to bowl throughout the Test summertime. He took 5 arches in Lancashire’s 2nd innings, and bowled 38 overs in complete throughout the suit.
Nevertheless, mostly many thanks to twin centuries from Keaton Jennings, Durham were looking down the barrel of their initial loss of the period, requiring 475 to win entering into their last innings. By completion of Day Three, they were 134-3.
On the early morning of Day Four, David Bedingham and Ollie Robinson both racked up centuries in a 226-run collaboration to provide Durham an opportunity of chasing their target down. Both racked up swiftly, Robinson’s 171 not out coming off 206 spheres to surround 400. Stokes concerned the fold when Bedingham was rejected by Nathan Lyon in the mid-day session and after at first biding his time, seemed hostile to the rewriters. He reverse-swept Lyon to the limit in his 5th over at the fold, in a design evocative his therapy of the Australia rewriter at Headingley in 2019.
He provided part-time off-spinner Luke Wells the exact same therapy, sending him for back to back limits, the 2nd a 6, in the adhering to over. Wells procured the much better of Stokes when he returned on, nonetheless. Stokes tried to reverse-sweep once again, however was bowled behind his legs.
Following his arch, Durham fell down and were bowled out for 414, 61 runs except their target. At one factor they shed 4 arches for 8 runs. While it was Durham’s initial loss of the period, it was Lancashire’s initial win, having actually shed their last 3 successive video games.
Watch: Ben Stokes out reverse-sweeping component timer
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