Bowling Records
Team - Lowest Score Against Hampshire
23 - Yorkshire (Middlesborough, 1965)
In the mid-1960s Hampshire had probably the finest pace attack in their history, featuring three men who played Test cricket for England. The opening pair Derek Shackleton and ‘Butch’ White were in the side that won the Championship in 1961 and a couple of years later they were joined by Bob Cottam, a rare first-class cricketer from Lincolnshire.
This trio took almost 4,500 first-class wickets for Hampshire. In May 1965 they made the long journey to Middlesborough, where Shackleton and Cottam put out Yorkshire for 121. Hampshire managed a lead of just 4 runs on first innings, but then Hampshire skittled Yorkshire for 23 with their number 10, Don Wilson, top-scoring with 7*. ‘Butch’ White bowled through, taking 6-10 and Hampshire won by 10 wickets.
It was the lowest total ever made in a completed first-class innings against Hampshire and remains Yorkshire’s lowest score.
Individual - Best Bowling For Hampshire
Bob Cottam: 9-25 v Lancashire (Old Trafford, 1965)
In June 1965 Hampshire met lancashire at Old Trafford. England bowlers Statham and Higgs put them out for 174 and Lancashire reached 101-1 but then Bob Cottam produced a wonderful spell to record the best bowling figures in Hampshire’s history.
In 11 overs and one ball (4 maidens), he took 9-25. Hampshire, with a lead of 38, were bowled out again for 77, but chasing 116 to win White and Shackleton dismissed them to win the match by 13 runs. Strangely Bob Cottam could not add to his haul and so failed to take 10 wickets in the match. His first innings analysis beat that of AEG Baring for Hampshire at Colchester in 1931, by just one run. While no Hampshire bowler has ever taken 10 wickets in an innings for the county, the great Alec Kennedy did take 10-37 for the Players v Gentlemen at the Oval in 1927.
Individual - Outstanding Analysis
Derek Shackleton: 11.1 - 7 - 4 - 8 v Somerset (Weston-Super-Mare, 1955)
Derek Shackleton is Hampshire’s leading wicket-taker in first-class cricket and his figures of 9-30 against Warwickshire at Portsmouth in 1960 are his best in terms of wickets taken. He took nine wickets in an innings on two other occasions but surely his outstanding analysis came against Somerset at Clarence Park, Weston-Super- Mare in 1955. Hampshire scored 154 and then Shackleton routed Somerset who were all out for 37 in 22 overs and one ball. ‘Shack’ had figures of 11.1-7-4-8 with only the home side’s wicketkeeper Stephenson reaching double figures.
Hampshire replied with 245-7 declared, including a rapid century for Alan Rayment and Shackleton added 6-25 as Hampshire won by 264 runs. His match figures of 14-29 are behind just three other bowlers for the county, two with 15 wickets and Jack Newman in the lead, with 16-88 in 1927 – also against Somerset at Weston-Super-Mare. However, Shackleton’s average of 2.07 runs-per-wicket is easily ahead of any comparable return.
