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Lancashire 152 and 28 for 3 need 319 more runs to beat Warwickshire 219 and 279 for 7 dec (Ambrose 59*, Lilley 3-56)Scorecard Whatever the last day has in store, Warwickshire will have to conclude that this has been a let-down of a season, irrespective of the trophy they brought home from Lords last weekend. They began it as a popular choice among the pundits as the team most likely to derail Yorkshires bid for a hat-trick of titles, yet have finished it in a relegation scrap with Lancashire.Whats more, it is a youthful, inexperienced Lancashire, a side in its development stage, several years away from reaching maturity. Perhaps Warwickshire are a little too mature, lacking the mental vigour of youth, the appetite for success perhaps having lost a little of its edge. Seven of the side in action here are the wrong side of 30, with Keith Barker not far away.Barkers contribution has been beyond reproach, comprising 608 runs and 60 wickets - his highest haul yet - and Jeetan Patel has underlined his status as the best spinner in the Championship, despite being pressed hard by Somersets Jack Leach. Beyond those two, however, there are not many contenders for player of the year.The new lease of life that Ian Bell perhaps hoped to have drawn from the captaincy has not happened and nor has the England recall of which he retained some hope. Jonathan Trott, about to bare his soul in his new autobiography, has recovered well from his troubled times but not even he could manage 1,000 Championship runs, a milestone well out of reach of everyone else. Sam Hain, the great hope of recent seasons, has taken his overdue chance in white-ball cricket well enough but in the red-ball game by the most generous assessment he has had a year standing still.If they do survive - and to do so they must win if Hampshire defeat Durham in Southampton - they will at least have avoided slipping into the backwater that will be home to all the other Midlands counties next season. You fear they might be battling against the current again next year, however, unless something happens to shake things up.Given their experience and the bonus of three wickets in the final hour of day three, you would expect them to get the job done. Their second innings matched the first in producing only one half-century but those who made a start without building on it substantially accumulated enough runs collectively to set Lancashire a real challenge, enabling Bell to set 347 to win in a day plus 18 overs.Trott, not at his most fluent but still able to produce some lovely drives, appeared to be the one who would come up with the key innings until he was bowled through the gate by offspinner Arron Lilleys second ball, after which Bell was bowled off an inside edge attempting his familiar late cut. But Tim Ambrose stepped up with an unbeaten 59 that held things together. There was not as much turn in the pitch as was anticipated but although there were some batting misjudgments - Alex Mellor, Ian Westwood and Hain all fell offering no stroke - Lancashire kept up to their work willingly and Tom Bailey led the attack with discipline. Lilley finished with 3 for 56.Those evening inroads, though, have probably swung the balance. Haseeb Hameed survived, but the loss of Rob Jones, trapped in front by Barker, Luke Procter, another to be leg before without playing a shot, and Karl Brown, who feathered a catch to Ambrose off Chris Wright, leaves Lancashire already running out of reliable batsmen, although they will draw some comfort from knowing a draw would be enough for their survival.As Patel explained, it was enough to give Warwickshire belief that they can finish Lancashire off and leave their former coach, Ashley Giles, looking for assistance from Durham to keep a relegation off his CV.Win or not, Patel agreed that Warwickshires poor season in four-day cricket needs to be addressed.To take those three wickets tonight was very important because it put more pressure on them and gave us a bit of belief, he said. It is all about tomorrow now , tomorrow is the biggest day of our season. 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The Red Sox were on their way to a second consecutive last-place finish, and cynics believed Farrell kept his job only because of the potential public-relations fallout from firing him while he was sick.But Dombrowski had a full season to evaluate Farrell, and the Red Sox won the American League East for the second time in four years before getting swept out of the division series by the Cleveland Indians. Dombrowski said he was impressed by Farrells solid presence and the players response to his leadership, qualities that outweigh in the mind of the teams decision-makers the in-game strategy blunders that tend to get so much attention.John has done a real fine job for us, Dombrowski said. We had a very good year last year.dddddddddddd Thought he did a good job in handling the club, being in a position where we had a good working relationship. I find him very open-minded when we have conversations, the give-and-take people talk about. I think hes done a very fine job.Farrell insisted he wouldnt have managed differently had he entered the season without a guarantee for 2018. And there is precedent for the Red Sox going through a year with a lame-duck manager. Terry Francona managed all of 2011 without having his 2012 option picked up.Having already committed to Farrell in 2017, it only made sense to pick up his option, especially after bench coach Torey Lovullo, always perceived as a manager-in-waiting, left last month to manage the Arizona Diamondbacks.Dombrowski declined to address Farrells option after the Red Sox were eliminated from the postseason. He explained away his hesitation, claiming the club had other pressing matters, including general manager Mike Hazens defection to the Diamondbacks and Lovullos ensuing departure.But Dombrowski finally met with Farrell on Sunday in Maryland and told him face-to-face of the teams decision.I appreciate his confidence, Farrell said. We had a conversation [Sunday], where it got a little personal [about] where he walks in and hes inheriting a manager and a chemo plan. It has a chance to work itself out, where we win a division title. We addressed and faced a lot of challenges throughout the course of the season, whether it was injury, whether its a little bit of a dry spell that the team went through from a performance standpoint, and we all came out of it in a better place. ' ' '