That’s all for today. Thanks for joining us.
Hopefully some more good news about Moises Henriques and Rory Burns will be forthcoming.
Looks like the final update of the day from Graham Hardcastle at Old Trafford...
Leicestershire are all out for 207, and Kyle Jarvis has 50 Championship wickets for the season. He has just got Atif Sheikh caught behind by Alex Davies, who took five catches in the innings. There are still, in theory, 37 overs left in the day, but we won’t see all of them due to the light. The umpires are out in the middle, but there will be a delay to the start of Lancashire’s reply.
More good news from Surrey...
Latest: Moises has had X Ray on jaw and awaiting results. Rory waiting to see specialist and is chatting to staff.
— Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) June 14, 2015
News of quite an achievement from Old Trafford, courtesy of Graham Hardcastle...
Well, well, well. James Faulkner has become the 29th Lancashire bowler to take a first-class hat-trick. The Australian one-day specialist has helped reduce the Leicestershire score to 190-9 after 48 overs at tea, with one wicket at the end of his 12th over and two at the start of his 13th. The left-arm seamer had Ben Raine caught at point and Jigar Naik and Charlie Shreck lbw.
Faulkner was understandably delighted with his achievement, although he might not be too chuffed when he learns that he is not the first Australian to achieve that feat for Lancashire as Ted McDonald took one in 1930. In fact, Faulkner is not even the first Tasmania player to do it for Lancashire as Jack Simmons is one of the 29.
More from Graham Hardcastle at Lancashire v Leicestershire:
Well, well, well. James Faulkner has become the 29th Lancashire bowler to take a first-class hat-trick. The Australian one-day specialist has helped reduce the Leicestershire score to 190-9 after 48 overs at tea, with one wicket at the end of his 12th over and two at the start of his 13th. The left-arm seamer had Ben Raine caught at point and Jigar Naik and Charlie Shreck lbw. Faulkner was understandably delighted with his achievement, although he might not be too chuffed when he learns that he is not the first Australian to achieve that feat for Lancashire as Ted McDonald took one in 1930. In fact, Faulkner is not even the first Tasmania player to do it for Lancashire as Jack Simmons is one of the 29.
Will be amazed if Surrey's game at Guildford starts on time tomorrow. Player I spoke to certainly didn't fancy it.
— Will Macpherson (@willis_macp) June 14, 2015
Surrey have released a statement about Burns and Henriques. Here it is in full:
Rory Burns and Moises Henriques have been taken to hospital after their on-pitch collision during today’s game at Arundel but were sitting up and conscious when they left the ground.
The game was abandoned with the full consent of both sides.
We will give more information when it is available.
More from Graham Hardcastle at Lancashire v Leicestershire:
We are back on at Old Trafford after that rain delay, and Leicestershire have lost Andrea Agathangelou for 54, caught behind off Tom Bailey, who has four wickets. The visitors, with Ben Raine 25 and Jigar Naik on three, are now 174 for six after 41 overs. We have 48 remaining in the day, with five lost for the rain. Twenty minutes until tea.
Graham Hardcastle reports from Old Trafford:
We are back on at Old Trafford after that rain delay, and Leicestershire have lost Andrea Agathangelou for 54, caught behind off Tom Bailey, who has four wickets. The visitors, with Ben Raine 25 and Jigar Naik on three, are now 174 for six after 41 overs. We have 48 remaining in the day, with five lost for the rain. Twenty minutes until tea.
Surrey rep says both players conscious but no question whatsoever about cancellation. Wouldn't think we'll hear anything more from club
— Will Macpherson (@willis_macp) June 14, 2015
According to the Daily Mirror’s Ed Malyon, from people at Surrey, that Burns was unconscious for five minutes while Henriques may have suffered a broken jaw and a couple of lost teeth.
Well this is very good news...
Latest is Rory Burns and Moises Henriques have left the ground in ambulances but both players are concious and sitting up
— Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) June 14, 2015
Seems a little incongruous in the middle of all this, but here’s Graham Hardcastle’s latest from Old Trafford:
Rain has stopped play at Old Trafford, where Leicestershire are 139-5 after 33 overs. Andrea Agathangelou is 39 not out and Ben Raine unbeaten on 13. Good recovery from the visitors. The rain is not heavy by any means.
Surrey v Sussex has now been abandoned, as you might expect.
Both Rory Burs abd Moises Henriques are leaving the ground in an ambulance....
— Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) June 14, 2015
This sounds more promising...
Wilson, Mahmood and other Surrey players now on field. Burns putting two thumbs in the air as stretchered onto third ambulance.
— Jonathan Norman (@FulhamJon) June 14, 2015
Sounds like Rory Burns is the other player involved in the collision...
Pleased to report henriques is in an ambulance and waved as he was moved on. No news on burns yet. Looks more serious
— Will Macpherson (@willis_macp) June 14, 2015
The rest of the Surrey and Sussex players have left the field, and it’s doubtful that the game will continue. Three ambulances are now on the field.
Nick Miller here. Seems there has been quite a nasty accident at Arundel, where Sussex are facing Surrey. Play has been suspended after two Surrey players - Moises Henriques and another player (reports differ as to who it is) collided while going for a catch, and ambulances are on the field. Details sketchy at the moment, we’ll keep you posted when we know more.
Updated
Graham Hardcastle reports from Old Trafford:
No further alarms for Leicestershire in the early stages of the afternoon, with Andrea Agathangelou moving onto 21 against his former county as the visitors advance to 105-5. Ben Raine is also unbeaten on five. We have just had a five or so minutes delay due to a change of ball in the 27th over. I would be amazed if we don’t see a decent amount of time lost to light later in the day. The floodlights have been on all day with the light gloomy. Tea (supper), meanwhile, has been pushed back to 5.25pm due to the rain which delayed the start by 40 minutes.
Graham Hardcastle reports from Old Trafford:
Leicestershire have reached lunch (tea, as it’s officially called this week) in real trouble at 82-5 after 19 overs. Kyle Jarvis has struck twice to move to 49 for the season, but his new ball partner Tom Bailey has led the way with three wickets, including Umar Akmal and Mark Cosgrove.
Andrea Agathangelou, released by Lancashire at the end of last season, is two not out and has plenty of work to do get his new county out of trouble. Ben Raine is also unbeaten on two.
It was brought to our attention in the press box that Leicester’s third run in this innings was their 1,000,000th run in first-class cricket, which led us to question how many Lancashire have scored. Opta stats man Gary Morgan had the answer in a flash - 1,133,848.
Graham Hardcastle reports from Old Trafford:
Kyle Jarvis has made the breakthrough after a breezy start from Leicestershire openers Angus Robson and Niall O’Brien, the latter who is opening the batting for the first time in a first-class match for the county since 2013, a run of 51 games. O’Brien was the man to go, caught behind to leave the score at 26-1 after four overs.
Jarvis, the former Zimbabwe Test seamer who retired to become a Kolpak player towards the end of 2013, is now the leading first-class wicket-taker in England this summer with 48 in his ninth match, all of them in the Championship. He is firmly on course to secure Lancashire’s biggest wickets haul in a season since the two divisions were introduced in 2000. He needs to beat 72, taken by Gary Keedy in 2004.
If he gets beyond 81, taken by Wasim Akram in 1995, the 26-year-old will have Lancashire’s best haul in season for 40 years. Peter Lee was the last Red Rose bowler to top 100 wickets in a season, with his 104 coming in 1975.
Leicester are two down now. Tom Bailey has just got Ned Eckersley caught at first slip - 31-2 in the seventh.
The latest from Mike Selvey:
It has been a good morning for Worcestershire and an indifferent one for Warwickshire who managed just the two wickets in the session. For most of the morning play had been conducted as the bell ringers of Worcester cathedral went through some of their changes on the twelve bells there. Not that the Warwickshire bowlers got much change out of the Worcestershire batsmen. There was the loss of Richard Oliver to a catch behind off Chris Wright in the eighth over, although the disbelief from the batsman, of a nature that might have repercussions from the umpires, suggested that the noise that was clearly heard ( before the bells started) came from bat striking back pad rather than ball. This sounds a tricky one for the umpire though.
The only other wicket to fall came within three balls of the lunch break when the captain Daryl Mitchell clipped Wright gently, and frustratingly for the batsman given his morning’s work, to mid wicket. Mitchell had hit seven fours in a 95 ball innings of 36, which meant an awful lot of deliveries without scoring. He had added 66 in 21 overs with Moeen Ali however, with Moeen looking in the sort of form where he seems to have an extra split second over other batsmen in which to play the ball. At lunch, he too had 36, from 56 balls with 6 fours, three of them in four deliveries from Wright, who might have learned the inadvisability of bowling full and wide. Worcestershire will resume on 104 for two.
The latest from Graham Hardcastle:
We are due to start at Old Trafford at 1.10pm with two overs lost from the day’s allocation, so that’s 94 to bowl.
The latest from Graham Hardcastle:
We have a delayed start at Old Trafford due to rain, although it’s not too hard. It’s pretty dark out there too. Doesn’t bode well for an 8pm finish if it looks dark already. There are plenty of crowds knocking around the Old Trafford area today, although not for the cricket unfortunately. Manchester United legends are playing Bayern Munich legends in a charity match over the road.
The latest from Graham Hardcastle:
Good afternoon from an overcast Old Trafford, where we are getting ready for a 12.30pm start between Lancashire and Leicestershire, tea at 2.30pm, supper at 5.10pm and close at 7.30pm.
Lancashire are experimenting with the start time for this Division Two fixture in a bid to attract a few more spectators into the ground post work for the evening session. They are charging adults £5 and kids £1 beyond 4pm each day. “The lads will be happy with a lie in and not getting stuck in traffic on the way into the ground,” said Lancashire captain Steven Croft.
Here, here!
The official scorecards haven’t managed to catch up with the time changes, though. They still have each day starting at 11am. Oops. The hosts go in search of their sixth win from nine fixtures this season as they chase, successfully at the moment, a return to Division One. They are 31 points clear of second-placed Surrey and 60 clear of third-placed Glamorgan, who have one and two games in hand respectively.
Leicestershire have won the toss and will bat. Lancashire are playing their two frontline spinners, Simon Kerrigan and Arron Lilley.
The latest from Mike Selvey:
The sun has been out at Worcester and the Sunday crowd was starting to build before play in what is regarded as a local derby. The toss was won by Worcestershire who are batting and have just lost their first wicket, that of Richard Oliver, whose reluctant departure at being given out caught behind off Chris Wright,was at odds with the noise heard in the press box. Apparently they can analyse these things pretty quickly though and he is said to have hit his back pad. Reckon it will cost him anyway.
But it does bring Moeen Ali to the crease, greeted with generous applause. Mo, suddenly, seems no longer to be flavour of the month when it comes to the England team, at least from supporters, but my guess is that he will get enough bowling in the next couple of weeks to regain his consistency and keep his place for the first Test in Cardiff.
For the moment Worcestershire are 38 for one.
Morning all
Today we have Mike Selvey and Graham Hardcastle on county cricket watch. Here is the former’s scene setter:
To Worcester today, and some tranquility away from the frenetic hurly-burly of the current ODI series. Watching county cricket is a pleasure afforded less and less the cricket correspondent but it remains an important element to retaining a connection to players making their way in the game and those looking to maintain their status.
Worcestershire have been struggling a little to keep afloat after their dramatic promotion from the second division and have a single win in six games and, historically, will not find Warwickshire easy now having not beaten them since the turn of the millennium. It is the games within the game that hold the interest however. Both Moeen Ali, who has been rested from the ODI squad, and Ian Bell, who has been dropped, have issues of form to address in the build-up to the Ashes series. After an excellent first international summer, Moeen has tailed off with bat and particularly ball, with a lack of consistency.
He has the skills but needs to bowl a lot of overs. Whether he can though depends on how much reliance Worcestershire place on the return of Saeed Ajmal, following major reconstruction of a hitherto illegal action. It is inconceivable that without his doosra, Ajmal can be the force he was,but Moeen will surely be restricted in how much he can bowl, which is not ideal from an England perspective.
For Warwickshire, mid table, the England imperative falls on Ian Bell, another whose skills are not in question, but one who has struggled to make an international impact since his century in the first innings of the opening Test of the recent Caribbean tour. When Bell is playing poorly there is always the impression that he is playing half a bat too much inside the line, something that only time in the middle will eradicate. Moeen against Bell, Ajmal against Bell, Moeen against Ajmal: all good to watch. And the lemon sponge cake in the Ladies Pavilion never disappoints.
