County round-up: Luke Wells’s knockout blow for Lancashire and Liam Dawson’s Warwickshire dynamite show | Sports

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Edgbaston Lancashire beat Warwickshire by four wickets

Boxing judges would have scored the opening nine sessions of this riveting match as three to Warwickshire, three to Lancashire and three tied, no two successive rounds going to either team until the morning yesterday belonged to the home side. But the last two were seized by Luke Wells, completing his first hundred of the season, sprinting on to an unbeaten 175 and grasping the win that keeps Lancashire in strong contention for the title.

Opening, Wells felt his side floundering, 15 minutes after lunch, following a decline from an overnight five without loss to 93 for four. The target was still 236 runs away with 62.3 overs to come and Warwickshire smelling blood. To his horror, hey