Cricket: Familiar story as rain stops play at Old Trafford.
LANCASHIRE and Derbyshire were forced to watch the rain fall at Old
Trafford Old Trafford commonly refers to two sporting arenas: - Old Trafford (football ground), home of Manchester United F.C.
- Old Trafford (cricket ground), home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.
as their opening Friends Provident Trophy The Friends Provident Trophy is a one day cricket competition in the United Kingdom.[1] It is one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties compete each season. They are joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland. North Division game
was washed out without a ball bowled.
Both sides are hoping to better their 2007 performance when neither
made it out of the group stages.
Stuart Law's Lancashire Lightning travel to the Grange at
Edinburgh next Sunday where they face the Scottish Saltires.
And Rikki Clarke's Derbyshire Phantoms side travel to
Headingley on the same day to play Yorkshire Carnegie.
Both sides pick up one point for an abandoned game.
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