Hampshire Seal First Home Victory Against Saltires

Hampshire win by 31 runs in the CB40.

Hampshire Royals v Scottish Saltires
Clydesdale Bank 40
Sunday 30th May 2010
The Rose Bowl

Summary
Hampshire Royals win by 31 runs
Hampshire Royals: 237-9
Scottish Saltires: 206

Hampshire won their first home game of the season as they eased past an industrious Scotland Saltires side at The Rose Bowl.

Jimmy Adams hit 57 as the home side scored 237 for 9 in their 40 overs, but a 90 from George Bailey threatened to ruin the home side’s day.
 
The left-arm duo of James Tomlinson (3 for 33) and Chris Wood (3 for 32) helped bowl The Saltires out for 206 and seal a 31-run win to help keep the team’s, admittedly slim, hopes of retaining the trophy they won at Lord’s last year, alive.
 
Nic Pothas won his 13th toss out of 14 attempts as Hants chose to bat first in their sixth CB40 match of the season.
 
The home side made a slow start and lost opener Michael Lumb when he ballooned the ball in air and was caught comfortably by Ross Lyons off the bowling of Gordon Goudie with Hampshire yet to get off the mark.
 
Their poor fortunes continued when Michael Carberry (3) had his stumps taken out of the ground from the bowling of Gordon Drummond.
 
After the flurry of wickets, Adams and Sean Ervine built a steady partnership and it was the latter of the two that hit the first boundary of the Hampshire innings as he pulled spinner Lyons away for a huge six into the crowd.
 
The 84 run partnership between Adams and Ervine (43) came to an end in the next over as a mix up in the middle led to Goudie throwing down the stumps with deadly accuracy to dismiss the Zimbabwean all rounder.
 
Opener Adams then brought up his 50 with a delightful four but he fell shortly after reaching the milestone, when he was caught out in the deep by Neil McCallum’s diving catch off Richie Berrington’s short delivery for 57.

Jimmy Adams top scored for Hampshire with 57

With seven overs of the Hants innings remaining, and with the home side looking to push towards the 200 mark, Neil McKenzie (41) saw his off stump removed from the ground off the bowling of Goudie.
 
Liam Dawson did temporarily put Scotland to the sword with some big hitting, but he fell after a huge heave from the 20-year old saw him being given out lbw.
 
A huge 22 runs in the penultimate over saw to push Hampshire over 220, crucial runs, as the rest of the match was to prove.
 
As they looked to push on towards 250, Hants lost a succession of late wickets.
 
Bennington took the wickets of Nic Pothas (34) after the skipper was caught by Gregor Maiden, Dominic Cork after being taken by McCallum and then Rangana Herath who was bowled for a first ball duck.
 
Despite a late collapse Hampshire had added an impressive 48 during their final five overs finishing their innings on 237-9, setting their Scottish visitors 238 to win.
 

James Tomlinson ended with 3-33

Scotland’s reply started in the worst possible fashion, with Gavin Hamilton being bowled in the 4th over by Wood after the opener had made just five.
 
The wicket appeared to settle the away side down with both Omar Hussain and George Bailey happy to mix gentle singles with occasional explosive hitting.
 
The duo’s stubborn defense helped to bring up the pair’s 50-partnership, but with the scoring rate down on Hampshire’s, the away side knew they had to open their shoulders.
 
In fact, the pair’s resilience was becoming a nuisance for Hants, with the pair bringing up their 100-run partnership and, in turn, Bailey completing his half century off just 57 balls as he smashing Herath over long off for six.

The Sri Lankan spinner soon exacted his revenge trapping Hussain (30) lbw and then bowling Gregor Maiden (0) and with those dismissals the game swung in the direction of Hampshire.
 
Tomlinson followed Herath’s example with two quick wickets of his own, with George Bailey (90) and Berrington (13) edging to Pothas.
 
Cork soon got in on the act catching McCallum (1) lbw and when Tomlinson and Pothas combined again for the dismissal of Lockhart (3) the Saltires were dead and buried.
 
Ervine caught Gordon Drummond for 12 off his own ball and, in the final over, Wood bowled Goudie and then saw Herath take a catch in the deep to seal Hampshire’s 31-run win.

Words: Nick Howson / Ryan Day

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