{"id":28469,"date":"2026-04-19T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/county-championship-james-bracey-ton-helps-gloucestershire-fightback-v-injury-hit-lancashire\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:52:18","slug":"county-championship-james-bracey-ton-helps-gloucestershire-fightback-v-injury-hit-lancashire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/county-championship-james-bracey-ton-helps-gloucestershire-fightback-v-injury-hit-lancashire\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: James Bracey ton helps Gloucestershire fightback v injury-hit Lancashire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At tea, he was unbeaten on 108 and, at 276-4, Gloucestershire&#8217;s lead had grown to a promising 172. They had added just seven to it in the final session when Boorman, on 42, chased a wide ball from Balderson and edged to Keaton Jennings at second slip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anderson had been unable to get much response from the third-day pitch, but his perseverance paid when he pinned Graeme van Buuren lbw for a single to make it 294-6. With his tail up, the Lancashire captain then bowled Bracey off a bottom edge attempting to pull and followed up next ball by having Henry Brookes caught behind trying to withdraw the bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suddenly, Gloucestershire were 297-8. Soon it was 305-9 when Matt Taylor chipped a high catch to Anderson at mid-on off Balderson, who finished off the innings by bowling Gabe Bell. The last six wickets had fallen for 22 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire&#8217;s second innings began badly when Singh was bowled for a duck by a ball from Will Williams that clipped off stump. But Josh Bohannon soon went on the attack and had hit 6 fours in moving to 31 when bowled middle stump by Bell with the score on 45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With no addition to the score, Marcus Harris fell lbw to Taylor and Gloucestershire were still in the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Report by ECB Reporters&#8217; Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c9952ly0eepo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At tea, he was unbeaten on 108 and, at 276-4, Gloucestershire&#8217;s lead had grown to a promising 172. They had added just seven to it in the final session when Boorman, on 42, chased a wide ball from Balderson and edged to Keaton Jennings at second slip. Anderson had been unable to get much response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28471,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28469\/revisions\/28471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}