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Article: Cricket: Flintoff fireworks Essex 168; Lancashire 171-3 Lancashire win by 7 wkts
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 4, 1999
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ANDY FLINTOFF finished Lancashire's first floodlit National League
match of the season in the spectacular style that this cricket
demands with 18 runs off four balls with more than nine overs
remaining.
Lancashire had not really needed to move at the speed of Lightning
to overhaul Essex's modest target, but Flintoff gave an 8,000 crowd,
roughly twice what might have been expected on a Sunday afternoon,
what they wanted with a four, a six and two more fours off the
unfortunate Ricky Anderson.
Earlier, in what passed for daylight on a day which, despite the
recurring theme of "Summer in the City", was characterised by