Peter Siddle, the Australia fast bowler who flew in to join Nottinghamshire on
Tuesday after five days waiting for a visa, made the refreshing point that
“the IPL has never been a big thing for me; my goal has always been to play
Tests”. This game illustrated precisely what Twenty20 lacks as Lancashire,
beyond hope on Monday, almost pulled off an impossible win.

Needing 349 but starting soundly, they suddenly lost five wickets for 36 in 40
minutes either side of lunch to plummet to 112 for six. Undaunted, Ashwell
Prince moved to his third hundred in four championship innings