Buttler joins 10k club as Lancashire close in on quarter-finals

Lancashire 177 for 4 (Buttler 83, Livingstone 47) beat Derbyshire 150 for 7 (Got here 45) by 27 runs

Lightning started their innings comparatively conservatively, scoring 23 off their first three overs earlier than Phil Salt fell within the fifth, caught at level by Zak Chappell off Mattie McKiernan for 16.

With Livingstone becoming a member of Buttler on the crease, the fireworks started with the white-ball specialists focusing on Chappell, whose second over went for 20 runs and included a towering six from the skipper that landed on the roof of Emirates Outdated Trafford’s newly-constructed resort.

Livingstone repeated the trick within the eighth over, this time depositing the ball on the roof of the already-built Hilton resort, earlier than Buttler took over hitting the unlucky Alex Thomson for 3 consecutive sixes within the ninth over.

Cameos from Luke Wells and Daryl Mitchell added to the six depend and with Livingstone ending unbeaten on 47, Lightning have been only one in need of their report variety of maximums in an innings with 12.

“I actually loved that,” Buttler mentioned. “It was loads of enjoyable batting on the market with Livi. He places a lot stress on bowlers. Any time you’ll be able to prolong the partnership like we did tonight it is laborious to manage the scoring charge.”

Confronted with a frightening job, Falcons started brightly with opener Got here doing his finest to search out the boundaries however he quickly misplaced Luis Reece and Haider Ali for firm because the correct seamers of Tom Bailey bore fruit.

When the talismanic Wayne Madsen discovered Luke Wooden on the boundary off Mitchell for simply 16 with the rating 52 for 3, it felt like a tough job had change into nearly not possible.

Wells accounted for skipper du Plooy for 12 with a wise caught-and-bowled earlier than Got here departed stumped off Tom Hartley for a well-made 45.

A shocking catch from Rob Jones within the deep off McKiernan gave Wells a second wicket and with 38 runs required off the final over the sport was up for Falcons as Lightning went second within the North Group, requiring only one win from their last two video games to qualify.