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Scuppered by Barnett

Gloucestershire (199-9) bt Lancashire (177) by 22 runs

Lancashire, winners last year of the AXA League and the NatWest Trophy, were cruising towards their target of 200, at 110 for one in the 24th over, when they struck an uncharted reef.

The obstruction took the form of Kim Barnett, whose medium-slow in-floaters so confounded Lancashire that they lost their next seven wickets for 34, Barnett taking four and Mark Alleyne two.

Paddy McKeown had begun with a run-a-ball 48, but his dismissal, followed by the needless run out of Mark Chilton, gave Gloucestershire faint hope.

Barnett immediately had John Crawley stumped down the leg side, then bowled Graham Lloyd. Alleyne hit Mark Harvey's off stump, Barnett bowled Warren Hegg off an inside edge and Lancashire were struggling.

Earlier, Gloucestershire, put in, were confined by tight bowling but the pitch eased and Jeremy Snape and Tim Hancock scored fifties. Gloucestershire's total still seemed inadequate but Barnett ensured it was enough.