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Article: Little action at Old Trafford again as Lancashire struggle; CRICKET.
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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LANCASHIRE and Sussex managed 56.1 overs on the first day of their crucial LV County Championship Division One match at Old Trafford yesterday.
Both sides have still got relegation on their minds but the only thing that seemed to be on most people's minds yesterday was how the ground would hold up after the wet weather.
Less than 15 hours earlier the Twenty20 International between England and Australia was controversially abandoned without a ball bowled due to a small damp patch of turf in the midst of the bowler's run up at the Brian Statham Way End.
It was a decision that did not go down well with Lancashire chief executive Jim Cumbes and one ...