If you’ve ever ploughed through a plate of cold chips just for the sake of it, you’ve perfected the correct approach to the third day of the Bob Willis Trophy at Lord’s.
A day that started with Warwickshire sitting pretty on a lead of 386, ended with Lancashire wobbling on the edge of defeat. They were still 269 runs behind with only four second-innings wickets in hand when the light, which had barely raised itself above elephantine grey all day, finally dropped below the required level on the umpires’ light meters.
Lancashire’s heaviest previous defeat was by an innings and 220 by West Indies in 1950, the match where Alf Valentine clinched his place in the Test team after taking 13 wickets on an Old Trafford pitch resembling a dust heap.
Yorkshire handed out Lancashire’s most crushing defeat by a county, again at Old Trafford, this time by an innings and 200 runs in 1938. Hedley Verity was then the terminator, trousering five for 21 in the second innings.
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