County Championship: Lancashire want eight wickets for likelihood of win in opposition to Yorkshire

Josh Bohannon struck 11 fours and two sixes in his unbeaten 127

LV= County Championship Group Three, Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester (day three):

Yorkshire 159 & 85-2: Lyth 39; Parkinson 1-11

Lancashire 509-9 dec: Bohannon 127*, Jennings 114, Lamb 61; Thompson 3-86

Yorkshire (1 pt) trail Lancashire (6 pts) by 265 runs

Scorecard

Yorkshire’s chances of saving their County Championship game against rivals Lancashire were dented after they lost two late wickets on day three.

Lancashire declared their first innings on 509-9, having started the day on 350-6, with Josh Bohannon 127 not out.

Danny Lamb also scored 61 in a seventh-wicket stand of 150 with Bohannon.

Faced with a first-innings deficit of 350, Yorkshire were looking good on 72-0 but then lost openers Adam Lyth and Tom Kohler-Cadmore to close on 85-2.

With Yorkshire’s inexperienced batting line-up missing England Test captain Joe Root and Gary Ballance, Lancashire will now be confident they can wrap up victory and stretch their lead at…

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