Thread by @TomEvansEcho

Early breakthrough for Sefton here, Jimmy Dixon has removed the dangerous John Richardson. Huge LBW shout from Huzaifa Zubair against Charles Taylor in the next over. Wigan 6/1.

Dixon has Aaron Redmond in all sorts of trouble here; the New Zealander clips a four through mid-wicket in between plays and misses.

Interesting stuff; Redmond, on 21, is chancing his arm against Zubair but struggling to get Dixon away. 29/1 from 9 overs.

Reader, I have lashed soy sauce on my leg again.

With the usual caveat that I am often completely wrong, the pitch looks a little bit up-and-down. Redmond and Taylor not finding it easy to score. 35/1 from 13 overs. No bowling changes yet.

Attacking fields for Taylor in particular, a couple more saving one when Redmond is on strike.

Leo Spilsbury replaces Zubair. Taylor picks off one short ball but otherwise a tight start from the youngster. 45/1.

Redmond, having scored one run in half an hour, runs four down to third man. Dixon’s exertions from the Smithdown Road end continue because he’s keeping the danger man relatively quiet; will be interesting to see how much Sefton can keep it tight once he’s finished.

Taylor pulls Dixon for four but two balls later plays back to one that takes his bails. Gone for 31; 67/2.

Spilsbury yorks Daniel Yates for 0, at the PRECISE MOMENT your correspondent was explaining to his son how a batter is most vulnerable when he’s just come in. Not gonna lie, I absolutely loved that. 70/3.

A well-set Aaron Redmond will always be a key wicket; he moves on to 40 after pulling Dixon for six into the trees. 78/3.

Raheem Kasser replaces Dixon after an 11 over spell. Jake Leyland is the new batter, still on 0. Wigan 86/3 after 24 as Kemar Smith comes on from the Park end.

50 for Redmond, who’s been particularly brutal against anything short.

Drinks with Wigan 89/3. And the sun’s out. A bit.

Smith gets Redmond, who didn’t pick the length; stepped out of his ground then played back but missed it and was stumped by Neil Durand. Big wicket, gone for 52. 90/4.

Vinay Choudhary smacks Smith for six then four to bring up the 100 for the visitors.

Choudhary is here to chew gum and play shots, and he’s all out of gum. He is not middling everything, but he’s getting away with it so far. Wigan 107/4 from 28.

Safe to say it’s all happening when Choudhary is on strike. He bottom-edges a pull that had me flinching at the deep mid-wicket boundary; then the umpires have a long chat with the bowler, Smith, then there’s a big LBW shout, then a six, then a four. He’s on 31, Wigan 131/4.

Zubair comes back on for Smith, as the hosts try to make something happen. 139/4 from 38 overs; Wigan easing into something approaching control of the game.

OK I’m claiming an assist for that one - Zubair’s first ball takes Choudhary’s outside edge and Durand takes the catch. 139/5 and the big-hitting pro has gone for 33.

Stung by my “claiming an assist for that one” remark, Zubair persuades Joe Burrows to drag on for 0. Nothing to do with me, that one. 139/6.

Jake Leyland, who’s been quietly batting away for some time, plays a lovely cover drive off Zubair. Then Durand puts down a leg-side chance. 149/6 from 41.

Dixon back on now. Keeps it tight to Patrick Howley, who is showing intent but keeps picking out the fielders. 150/6 from 42; Wigan have 15 overs to score 10, 40 and 70 runs for batting points.

*13 overs soz

Dixon bowls Howley, 172/7

Two in the over for Dixon as he gets the next man (scoreboard says it’s number 10, but that was Choudhary) LBW. 172/8.

Now Smith gets his second, Josh Boyden well held by a back-pedalling mid-off. Batter number 12 in now, apparently. 177/9.

Leyland brings up a patient, important 50; his first for the 1st XI since 2018. 193/9 in the 51st.

That’s tea with Wigan on 207/9. In control but, since Redmond went just after drinks, never quite in command. Wickets fell in clusters; Leyland’s 61* could prove crucial. Presumably they’ll come back out to go for the 13 runs in two overs they need for the last batting point.

Back come the players for what could be an extremely short mini-session before the innings break.

Three balls, in fact, as Leyland slices Zubair to backward point. All out for 207.

This will be a tough chase, but not impossible. Dixon was disappointed Sefton couldn’t chase 190-odd against S&B last week, blamed poor shot selection.

Ben Percival and Ayan Madhu to open for the hosts.

John Richardson with the ball.

Madhu has had his wheels on around the boundary for most of the afternoon; he needs them again as Percival calls him through for a quick single. 3/0 from the first over.

It’s an all left-arm attack as Josh Boyden opens from the Park end.

Madhu, struggling to settle, nicks Boyden to the keeper for 1. 12/1.

Huzaifa Zubair’s reward for his 50 last week is a promotion to number 3.

Now Percival joins him, slicing Richardson to backward point. Kemar Smith joins Zubair. 12/2

Fairly quiet passage of play here. Smith and Zubair trying to play themselves in and get through the opening burst from two good, quick bowlers. 21/2 after 12.

Vinay Choudhary replacing Richardson from the Smithdown Road end. Plenty of chat out there.

Choudhary gets Smith, who fatally lifted his foot after missing one, and Howley completes the stumping. 29/3. Sefton need something quite special now.

Now Richardson has changed ends. Rob Supria is the new man, joining Zubair. Runs very hard to come by.

“Come on boys, seven bits of cricket,” shouts a Wigan fielder. Is that the highest number ever to come before “bits of cricket”?

Supria lifts some of the tension by taking three consecutive fours off Richardson. 44/3. They have to figure out a way to score off Choudhary.

And in trying to do just that, Supria picks out mid-on. Leo Spilsbury the new batter; Sefton 45/4. Long way to go.

Jordan Hampson replaces Richardson from the Park end and bowls Spilsbury. 58/5.

This could be over quite soon. Zubair walks past one from Choudhary and is stumped for 17. 62/6.

Drinks are being drunk. 25 overs gone; there will probably be about 50-55 in all, with the last hour called at 6.15. The bowling has been good but at least half the wickets have fallen to poor shots. Sefton 63/6.

Straight away, Choudhary skids one into Durand’s pads and successfully appeals; 63/7.

Scott Aitchison feathers his first ball to the keeper. 63/8, Choudhary on a hat-trick, and he has five wickets.

The Sefton tail successfully dropped anchor last week, but these waters could prove just too choppy. 100 runs is the first target for a batting point. They’re 35 away, with two wickets left.

Richie Conlan pushes forwards to Choudhary and is bowled. It’s been a devastating performance by the left-armer. 66/9

Wicketkeeper Howley I think shells one off the bowling of Hampson, Dixon the reprieved batter. Unlikely to make much difference, all told.

And it ends with a run-out as Dixon calls Kasser through for one that was never there. Sefton all out for 67, Wigan win by 130 runs.

@threadreaderapp unroll pls