Rewind: Lancashire v Warwickshire, 1984

When you bat first in a county championship match and nine of your batsmen register single-figure scores, that's not great…you are certainly doing well to then go on and win the game.

But that was exactly what happened when Warwickshire visited Old Trafford in August 1984.

Norman Gifford's side won a superb, fluctuating contest by 50 runs with match-shaping contributions from the class acts: centuries from Dennis Amiss and Alvin Kallicharran and a five-for from Gladstone Small.

After choosing to bat, the Bears hit early trouble at 19 for three before rescue was delivered by a high-class old 'un and a high-class young -'un. Dennis Amiss, still powering out the runs at 41, and Paul Smith, just 20, added 191 with the former striking 118, his 89th first class century and the latter a making a punchy career best (to that point) 89.

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That 191 came out of a first innings total of 244 after Paul Allott and Jack Simmons rattled through the lower order. The third-highest contribution was extras with 14, followed by Chris Old with nine.

When Lancashire replied with 300 for nine declared, they were in a strong position, though perhaps not quite as strong as captain John Abrahams thought when he declared at the acquisition of another batting point rather than allowing last pair Allott and Ian Foley to try to add a few more runs. The Bears then hit back hard.

Second-wicket pair Robin Dyer (84) and Kallicharran (117 - his eighth century of the season) added 217 and a beefy unbeaten 64 from Geoff Humpage enabled skipper Gifford to declare at 327 for four, leaving Lancashire a target of 272 in 64 over and his bowlers a sniff of victory.

Step forward, Glad! The skilful seamer took five for 42 to rip out the top order and leave the Red Rose in disarray at 76 for six. At one stage, Small was on a hat-trick and, from the hat-trick ball, Steve Jefferies was dropped at slip only to perish next ball to give the bowler three in four.

Seventh-wicket pair Neil Fairbrother (66) and 43-year-old and Simmons (59) dug in to add 91 but after the former edged Anton Ferreira behind, slow left-armer Willie Morton took a couple of wickets to see the Bears to a thrilling 50-run win with 62 balls to spare.

It remains the Bears' most recent championship win at Old Trafford, though they have since beaten the Red Rose at Southport (1999) and Aigburth (2012).