County Championship: Lancs and the weather thwart Leicestershire

Leicestershire head coach, Alfonso Thomas, said:

“We’ve done some really good things in this game. There’s always room for improvement, but I’m just so proud of the guys for how they’ve gone about things.

“To a man, everybody in this team does his job and that to me is the sign of a really strong side. I was really chuffed for Tom Scriven that he got his maiden five-wicket haul and then the way Rehan and Sol batted set the tone for us going into day two.

“It set things up for our pretty powerful middle order to take us nearly to full batting bonus points – but I’m happy with four.

“We have a bowling team and people are ready to come in. I wanted a squad of about seven or eight bowlers for the season. It’s going to be tough to go through the season with the same bowling attack. I’m begging and pleading with the ECB to let me have Josh Hull in the squad.”

Lancashire captain Keaton Jennings said:

“I think when you look back at the four days, batting first on that surface was hard work. I thought actually to get to 263 was probably about par. We had opportunities to push ahead of the game and get above par, but let them slide. And the same with the ball. I don’t think we executed well enough.

“We chatted about it as a group. We missed too often. And obviously, they’re going to get a big score as the wicket sort of levels out a bit.

“Overall, it was frustrating. You feel like a bit of a stuck record coming in saying the same thing.

“I think with the ball we need to be more relentless, landing the ball in the right area often enough. You want guys getting big hundreds, especially first innings. That’s one where the points are.

“We’ve seen Northampton and Leicester both put us under pressure with big first inning scores. We want to be the side doing that.

“I suppose a positive spin is we haven’t played our best cricket, but we’re not a million miles off (the top). We haven’t played good cricket. We’ve got a week now to correct it.”