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Article: Justin Langer battles but the title slips away from Somerset ; Justin Langer was going down fighting as Somerset's Championship title hopes ebbed away in the Taunton shadows last night.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2008
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Justin Langer was going down fighting as Somerset's Championship
title hopes ebbed away in the Taunton shadows last night.
Chasing 182 to win, Lancashire reached 122-0 at the close on day
three after bowling the hosts out for 227.
The Somerset skipper was a hive of activity in the field
throughout. He cajoled and encouraged and fielded in some dangerous
positions close to the bat without the protection of a helmet.
But his efforts came to nothing as Mark Chilton, with 76 not out,
and Paul Horton, who was on 43, held his bowlers at bay with a
season's best opening stand.
It was all a little irrelevant to the title chase as well as
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