{"id":2135,"date":"2022-09-26T23:36:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T23:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/county-championship-toby-roland-jones-helps-middlesex-take-early-control-against-worcestershire\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T23:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T23:36:50","slug":"county-championship-toby-roland-jones-helps-middlesex-take-early-control-against-worcestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/county-championship-toby-roland-jones-helps-middlesex-take-early-control-against-worcestershire\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Toby Roland-Jones helps Middlesex take early control against Worcestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Toby Roland-Jones (right) played four Tests for England in 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
LV= County Championship Division Two, New Road, Worcester (day one)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Worcestershire: 167-8: <\/strong>D’Oliveira 44; Roland-Jones 3-32, Murtagh 2-36, Higgins 2-45<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middlesex: Yet to bat<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Worcestershire (0 pts) lead Middlesex (2pts) by 167 runs with two wickets remaining <\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Match scorecard<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Toby Roland-Jones picked up three wickets to take his first-class tally to a personal best of 66 in a season as promotion-chasing Middlesex took control on day one of their County Championship match with Worcestershire at New Road.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The former England pace bowler exploited ideal conditions for seam bowling as he moved past his previous best haul of 64 victims in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He received excellent support from Middlesex captain Tim Murtagh and Ryan Higgins as Worcestershire were reduced to 167-8 on a day shortened to 68.5 overs by rain and bad light.<\/span><\/p>\n

It enabled visitors to collect two of the maximum haul of 16 points needed to ensure promotion to Division One.<\/span><\/p>\n

Worcestershire captain, Brett D’Oliveira dug in for three-and-a-quarter hours for a fighting 44.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both teams and coaches formed a guard of honour before the start of play for umpire Nick Cook, officiating in his final game before retirement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Murtagh won an important toss and put the home side in to bat on a greenish pitch used previously for the Championship match with Sussex in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

The veteran seamer then struck with the first delivery of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed Pollock had been Worcestershire’s match-winner against Middlesex earlier in the season with 113 off 77 balls at Merchant Taylor’s School, but he was instantly undone by a ball of extra bounce after pushing forward and edged through to wicketkeeper John Simpson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Murtagh and Roland-Jones skilfully exploited the sideways movement and variable bounce and there was plenty of playing and missing from Jake Libby and new batter Jack Haynes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Libby (four) was lbw to an inswinging ball of full length from Roland-Jones.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was primarily a battle for survival and Azhar Ali had scrapped away for one run off 33 balls before rain led to an early lunch with Worcestershire 26 for two from 16 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Roland-Jones struck for the second time when Haynes (20) prodded at a delivery and found the hands of Sam Robson at second slip.<\/span><\/p>\n

Azhar temporarily lifted the shackles with a cut and cover drive for boundaries after Ryan Higgins came into the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, after surviving for two-and-a-half hours, he was leg before for 27 to a delivery from the same player which nipped back in.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed Barnard, in his final appearance for Worcestershire before joining Warwickshire, immediately looked in good touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

The all-rounder profited from the cut shot with boundaries off Higgins and Bamber and he and D’Oliveira steered Worcestershire to 113 for four by tea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two wickets in two overs after the interval tipped the balance in Middlesex’s favour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barnard (28) was pouched at first slip after driving at Roland-Jones and Gareth Roderick, who had scored centuries in his previous two knocks, fell for a duck, the victim of a sharp catch at short leg off Murtagh.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew Waite struck some useful blows before he inside edged a Higgins delivery on to the stumps and D’Oliveira’s resistance was finally ended by Ethan Bamber, with Robson collecting another chance at second slip.<\/span><\/p>\n

Report supplied by the ECB Reporters’ Network.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Toby Roland-Jones (right) played four Tests for England in 2017 LV= County Championship Division Two, New Road, Worcester (day one) Worcestershire: 167-8: D’Oliveira 44; Roland-Jones 3-32, Murtagh 2-36, Higgins 2-45 Middlesex: Yet to bat Worcestershire (0 pts) lead Middlesex (2pts) by 167 runs with two wickets remaining Match scorecard Toby Roland-Jones picked up three wickets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}