County Championship: Josh Bohannon hits century for Lancashire

Josh Bohannon also scored a century in the pre-season game against Loughborough University

Josh Bohannon's fine unbeaten century put Lancashire in command of their County Championship game against Gloucestershire on day two.

Resuming on 11-1, Bohannon made 142 not out as Lancashire closed on 289-3 in their first innings, leading by 37.

The 25-year-old shared century stands with opener Luke Wells (59) and Steven Croft (34) and is now in sight of his first-class best of 174.

Pakistan spinner Zafar Gohar (2-65) was the pick of the Gloucestershire attack.

Bohannon and Wells were untroubled in the morning session as Wells brought up his half-century just before lunch to take Lancashire to 103-1.

Zafar finally made the breakthrough early in the afternoon when he pinned Wells on the back foot and the former Sussex batter was given out lbw.

Bohannon went to his fourth first-class century off 213 balls just after tea, clipping Ajeet Singh-Dale to the fine-leg rope.

Zafar picked up his second wicket in the early evening sunshine at Old Trafford as Croft missed a sweep and was bowled.

But Bohannon and captain Dane Vilas continued Lancashire's dominance with an unbroken stand of 55 to take them to stumps in excellent shape.

Lancs centurion Josh Bohannon told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"It was nice to spend some time in the middle and do a job for us. One of the things I've learnt to do is to bat a long time: I worked hard during the winter and then to come out and do that is a massive reward for myself.

"I'm just taking each game at a time and just trying to score as many runs as I can for Lancashire. What I took from being with the England Lions was the intensity of the environment - everything they do on and off the field was something that I really enjoyed.

"It is something I am not in control of. At the end of the day all I can do is put my name in the hat by scoring runs for Lancashire. If I can help Lancashire win a Championship hopefully it might lead to bigger and better things."

Gloucestershire head coach Dale Benkenstein:

"Under the circumstances with what we've got left on the field the guys stuck to their guns pretty well.

"Lancashire have a very good bowling attack. They have three international bowlers in their attack so it was always going to be tough but if you ever wanted to face that attack that's the wicket you want to bat on.

"I go back to winning the toss on this pitch - we didn't make the most of it and we should have been batting for longer than we did. They played old fashioned cricket and played the ball on its merits."