da cassino online： Northamptonshire has moved back to the top of Division Two of the CountyChampionship after completing a resounding home victory over Worcestershiretoday with more than two sessions still remaining
Staff and agencies08-Aug-2000Northamptonshire has moved back to the top of Division Two of the CountyChampionship after completing a resounding home victory over Worcestershiretoday with more than two sessions still remaining.For the second week in a row, it was off spinners Jason Brown (5/55) andGraeme Swann (4/88) who proved the matchwinners. After taking seventeenwickets together in the last round, the tandem slow bowling combinationadded another sixteen to their rapidly swelling collective tally withanother superb exhibition.Worcestershire had entered the final day at a score of 102/6 in its secondinnings – and still facing a massive overall deficit of 168 runs. Matterssoon became even worse as Brown tempted Steve Rhodes (4) into drivingextravagantly at, but alas over the top of, a conventional off break.Stuart Lampitt (56*) and, to a lesser extent, Paul Pollard (9), summonedenough defiance to see out eighteen overs together before the latter’swicket fell but, from there, the end came quickly.There was both good and bad news for the visitors in Lampitt’s attainmentof a well-deserved half century – for he gained appropriate reward for apositive innings and yet illustrated, in scoring it, the thoroughinadequacy of his team’s match totals of 249 and 198 on what was by nomeans an awkward pitch on which to bat.Following this result, the rampant Northamptonshire now finds itself threepoints clear of Sussex at the head of the divisional standings. It seemslikely that its fate will be determined in its two meetings with thatparticular rival over the course of the next fortnight – the first of whichbegins at Northampton on Wednesday.