ECB (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Lucas has signed a new two-year contract with Northamptonshire, which will see him play his cricket at Wantage Road until the end of 2010.
ECB (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
David Lucas took three wickets as Northamptonshire eased to an eight-wicket victory over Leicestershire with a day to spare of their LV County Championship game.
ECB (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
David Lucas took five wickets to put Northamptonshire firmly in the driving seat on day two of their LV County Championship game with Leicestershire.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Troughton's early let-off shaped the stalemate at Edgbaston. Resuming on 120 for three, Warwickshire still needed 138 to make sure of avoiding the follow-on when Rob White put down the chance at second slip from David Lucas's fourth delivery. The batsman was on 15 at the time and stayed to put his side in safe territory in a partnership of 149 with Jonathan Trott, who made 65 to confirm...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Warwickshire are now 17 points behind the Second Division leaders, Worcestershire, and remain six ahead of Northamptonshire but have a game in hand on their two closest rivals for promotion. Troughton's early let-off shaped the stalemate at Edgbaston. Resuming on 120 for 3, Warwickshire still needed 138 to make sure of avoiding the follow-on when Rob White put down the chance at second slip from David...
icWales (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... 138 to make sure of avoiding the follow-on when Rob White put down the chance at second slip from David Lucas’s fourth delivery.The batsman was on 15 at the time and stayed to put his side in safe territory in a partnership of 149 with Jonathan Trott, who made 65 to confirm his position as Warwickshire’s leading Championship scorer with 775 runs at 55.35.Johan van der Wath was the...
ECB (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
... over of the morning.Clare reeled off some fluent strokes, including an effortless pull for six off David Lucas, to overtake Smith who was lbw padding up after adding only six runs to his overnight 70.Wagg whipped Hall through midwicket for four but then drove back a return catch that the South African juggled before taking and Clare's hopes of a second century against Northants ended...
ECB (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... Rogers took a brilliant reaction catch at first slip and then Langeveldt produced a yorker to bowl David Lucas for 13.Andrew Hall was caught behind by Pipe's deputy Tom Poynton pushing forward at Langeveldt, and Graham Wagg denied Northants a fifth point when Jason Brown was lbw for a duck.Langeveldt had bowled superbly to take a season's best 5-52 in 25 overs but the Northamptonshire...
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
David Lucas took five wickets in the day to help send Leicestershire reeling at the County Ground.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... be tightened. Nicky Boje’s kicking left-arm spin had Tom New caught at short leg early on to usher David Lucas and his seam colleagues to another day of plenty. Paul Nixon, Leicestershire’s pugnacious captain, struck 73, but there was little he could do at No 8 to prevent a second defeat in three matches since his side reached the Twenty20 break undefeated and seemingly in good shape....
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... 200 mark to ensure Northamptonshire would have to bat again. However, he fell to the impressive David Lucas, top-edging him to fine-leg, as Leicestershire set Northamptonshire a facile 27. Though they lost Niall O'Brien and Stephen Peters, David Sales and Robert White eased them home.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... the visitors to follow-on. At stumps on the second day, Leicestershire had fallen to 8 for 1 with David Lucas picking up his fifth wicket. Earlier, David Sales moved onto 150 while Lance Klusener cracked 65 as Northamptonshire added a further 99 from their overnight 274 for 4. And then the hosts' bowlers took over. Nicky Boje pulled off a stunning gully catch to remove Matt...
ECB (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... their side as he took his sixth and seventh scalps of the innings in Johan van der Wath (11) and David Lucas (6).Struggling Glamorgan were 199 runs behind Worcestershire with one wicket remaining.Imran Arif collected his fourth Glamorgan wicket when he bowled Jason Gillespie for 17.
ECB (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... as they tried to make up for lost time after the start of play was delayed by an hour.Wagg smashed David Lucas for a huge six - just one of four maximums in his 129-ball century.Wagg eventually fell on 108 when he was stumped by Niall O’Brien off the bowling of Northamptonshire captain Nicky Boje, bringing an end to his 203-run partnership with Clare, Derbyshire’s third highest seventh-wicket...
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... only other highlight for Northamptonshire was a spell of three wickets in 10 balls for seamer David Wigley.After David Lucas had taken the first three wickets to fall Wigley finally made an impact when he had Smith caught behind for an even 50.He then removed Jamie Pipe for a first-ball duck before ending Hinds' entertaining innings of 76 by getting the former West Indies international...
