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Hameed building his own Great Wall
- Updated: May 16, 2016
Lancashire 205 for 4 (Hameed 74, Petersen 61) trail Durham 411 (Borthwick 134, Collingwood 97, Bailey 5-110) by 206 runsScorecard
The story goes that South Africa’s captain, Alan Melville, was so absorbed in his own innings during a 1947 Test match that he failed to notice one of his partners had been dismissed. “Where’s Dudley?” he asked an astonished team-mate during one of the stranger midwicket conferences in cricket history.
Haseeb Hameed is 19 years old and such bizarre inattention on his part would probably merit a bollocking from one of Lancashire’s battle-tempered old pros. All the same he already shows an unnerving devotion to the art of batting and an ability to concentrate which some players ten years his senior never acquire. And Lancashire had need of Hameed’s precocious mental strength on the second afternoon of this game at the Riverside.
For 263 minutes he answered the call, carefully accumulating runs with gentle certainty and what the former Lancashire coach, Peter Moores, identifies as “quietness” at the crease. Only when it seemed all but sure that he would be batting on Tuesday morning did he err, fatally missing a pull off a monstrous Scott Borthwick long hop and being bowled for 74 four overs before the close. The fact that his runs had helped his side construct a decent reply to Durham’s 411 will comfort Hameed but it will not assuage his disappointment at losing his treasured wicket. He might, though, be rather comforted by the joy of Durham’s players when they removed him.
“It wasn’t nice but that’s cricket for you,” he said gamely. “Sometimes you get a jaffa and sometimes balls like that can get you out but hopefully next time I can push on and get a hundred.”
Lancashire were already 21 for 2, having lost Karl Brown and Luke Procter, both caught by Ryan Pringle at third slip off James Weighell, when Hameed was joined by Alviro Petersen at just past two o’clock. Time, by the way, may be significant to everyone else on the planet but Hameed gives no indication that it matters to him. …
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