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County Championship: Chris Green and Tom Hartley put on record Lancs stand at Glos

Chris Green and Tom Hartley produced career-best performances with the bat as Lancashire assumed the upper hand on day two of the County Championship Division Two match against Gloucestershire in Cheltenham.

Both made their highest individual first-class scores, Green a superb 160 from 199 balls, and Hartley 130 off 153 deliveries as the Red Rose posted a formidable 557 in their first innings.

Together, the pair staged Lancashire’s biggest ever ninth-wicket partnership of 212, eclipsing a long-standing record set way back in 1907.

Opening-day centurion Matty Hurst made a career-best 106, while Gloucestershire seamer Zaman Akhter and spinner Graeme van Buuren claimed figures of 4-85 and 3-117 respectively on an essentially sound, if slow, Festival pitch.

In reply, Ben Charlesworth and Joe Phillips launched a spirited counter-attack, staging an impressive unbroken alliance of 159 in 43.3 overs as Gloucestershire reached the close on 179-1, trailing by 378 runs.

Charlesworth produced a dazzling display of stroke-play to finish on 104 not out, while Phillips played the supporting role to perfection, posting a stubborn 60 from 135 balls.


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