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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2024 14:34:09 GMT
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Post by John W on Apr 9, 2024 10:55:08 GMT
I'm down there for the duration so it is fingers firmly crossed that weather-wise it's a decent four days.
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Post by alanw on Apr 11, 2024 10:52:13 GMT
Bell and Aspinwall substituted in the 2nd XI game so looks like they will be in the squad for this game. Boyden not substituted so could be Blatherwick will take his place in the squad selected for the Surrey match.
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2024 14:14:51 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2024 9:41:00 GMT
Hants win toss and bat , Bell and Blatherwick in
Aspinwall and Hartley out
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2024 12:52:43 GMT
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Post by Rob on Apr 12, 2024 13:45:47 GMT
So is it the 6 bs playing for Lancs today? Glad bell is in the side, and as a specialist batsman too. Maybe see some of his offies later today? |
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2024 13:56:24 GMT
So is it the 6 bs playing for Lancs today? Glad bell is in the side, and as a specialist batsman too. Maybe see some of his offies later today? They have at least 7 who could bowl |
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Post by Rob on Apr 12, 2024 14:33:38 GMT
So is it the 6 bs playing for Lancs today? Glad bell is in the side, and as a specialist batsman too. Maybe see some of his offies later today? They have at least 7 who could bowl Not sure what has happened to Bosh's medium pace- he was quite useful when he came into the side. As was Jennings I remember him having the odd over for England actually looked pretty good. And looking at his figures Bruce can turn his arm over as well..... So is that 10 who could have a bowl? |
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Post by Phil on Apr 12, 2024 14:38:00 GMT
Is that Blatherwick's third official warning during his Lancs career?
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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2024 16:48:35 GMT
Highest first day attendance at the Rose Bowl for 10 years over 2000
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Post by MickeyG on Apr 12, 2024 16:52:52 GMT
Forgot about this until just now. I see Lyon has 2 wickets.
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Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2024 6:20:51 GMT
Hampshire edged day one of the Vitality County Championship clash against Lancashire at the Utilita Bowl, with Tom Prest top scoring with 85 - whilst Nathan Lyon opened his account for the Red Rose.
Prest was one of four half-century makers for the hosts – with Nick Gubbins, James Vince and Liam Dawson also reaching the milestone as Hampshire totted up 305 for six in front of their highest first-day-of-the-season crowd from over a decade.
Nathan Lyon picked up his first two wickets for Lancashire during a mammoth 32-over day which yielded two for 97.
Skipper Vince won the toss and chose to bat first, giving debutant Ali Orr an immediate chance to impress the Hampshire supporters after his winter move from Sussex.
His collaboration with new opening partner Fletcha Middleton may need some work after the latter was run out in the ninth over by a George Balderson direct hit after a miscommunication.
Orr departed four overs later when Tom Bailey cut him in two with a wicked in-jagger to be caught behind, but from there, Hampshire found more fluency and built partnerships in overcast conditions.
Vince had come off a winter of seemingly endless white ball cricket, taking him from Abu Dhabi to Australia, Dubai to Pakistan.
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He ended last season’s Championship campaign – one where he become Hampshire’s first batter to 1,000 first-class runs since 2016 – with 56 and began the new campaign in identical fettle.
It was a look down and you missed it half-century, coming up in 62 balls but with hardly a shot in anger. It obviously included a cover drive but otherwise kept the ball on a string to ease his side from danger in an 84-run stand with Gubbins, taking the score away from the worrying 26 for two.
Gubbins, who had scored twin centuries on Lancashire’s previous trip to Utilita Bowl, unfurled his typically aesthetic yet steady knock to provide the foil for Vince before helping Prest lay the foundations for his innings.
Australian spinner Lyon had been due to play for Hampshire in 2020 before Covid prevented him from arriving. His maiden first-class outing on what would have been his home ground saw him strike in his seventh over as Vince tamely turned to leg-slip.
Lyon was given the lone front-line spinner furrow, with England left-armer Tom Hartley left out having played in the rain-affected draw against Surrey. The 36-year-old also lured Gubbins into a drive to edge behind three balls after reaching a 112-run 50 but the most intriguing passage of the day was Lyon’s battle with 21-year-old Prest.
It began with a sharp chance at short-leg, which was followed by a maiden over where every ball landed on the same spot, before Prest reposted with a pair of reverse sweeps. The battle would conclude with 33 runs and 34 dots in 51 balls – including the day’s only maximum on the slog sweep.
Prest is one to watch this season after his maiden century in the penultimate fixture of last season, where he took down Simon Harmer in style.
His 76-ball fifty oozed quality and underlined his tag but fell short of a century when he gloved a sweep to slip, three balls after Lyon had dropped a difficult chance on the dive. It ended a 93-run alliance with Dawson.
Ben Brown fell soon after when Will Williams secured an edge to third slip with the second new ball but Dawson made it a quartet of fifty-makers with an unbeaten 61 – although was dropped on 51 before the close.
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Post by Rob on Apr 13, 2024 13:24:44 GMT
Luke looking in good form again. Needs to kick on!
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Post by MickeyG on Apr 13, 2024 17:04:50 GMT
Bruce out for a quack quack.
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