County Championship Division Two
Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire
Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire
We kick off the Championship season with a trip to Gloucestershire who finished second from bottom last season. Sam Hain will have to wait to make his debut because of fitness issues, but otherwise our first class team is looking in good shape and I'm optimistic for the season ahead.
Team: Lyth, Newton, Wakely, Levi, Kohler-Cadmore, Rossington (C+WK), Cobb, Arshad, Lyon, Muzarabani, Sanderson.
Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to bat.
It wasn't the start we were looking for though unfortunately. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong, probably a lot of starts that weren't made the most of when batting, and our quicks struggling in the first innings. We were defeated with 10 overs left of the game.
Not a disastrous performance but still a disappointing loss to start the season against opposition we should be beating.
Gloucestershire: 375 (Roderick 69, Dent 62 - Lyon 3-78, Sanderson 2-76)
Northamptonshire: 294 (Kohler-Cadmore 61, Newton 55 - Payne 5-56, Taylor 3-38)
Gloucestershire: 249 (van Buuren 109 - Muzarabani 4-105, Sanderson 3-62)
Northamptonshire: 256 (Wakely 53, Levi 48 - Sayers 3-48, Whittingham 3-49)
Gloucestershire win by 74 runs.
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