Dave Allen: 20 Years Of Surrey At The Ageas Bowl

We have contested 25 matches with Surrey, winning 11 and losing 14. In 2003, Hampshire concluded their first T20 season with a 19-run defeat at home to Surrey, who would become the first Champions as Adam Hollioake took 5-21 while Aussie Simon Katich who would not return to Hampshire for nine years scored 45. In 2006 the fixture came back to the Rose Bowl, where we lost our last four wickets for five runs, and were defeated by 10 runs - Doshi taking 4-30. In 2008 we played home-and-away winning at home by six wickets, with Lumb scoring 63 and sharing an opening partnership of 80 with Ian Harvey.

In 2009, Lumb (again) and Adams were in good form posting 93 as we won by 18 runs, despite 73 from Ramprakash (Cork 2-22). In the following year, on our way to the title, Jimmy Adams 101* saw us home at the Rose Bowl by 10 runs after we posted 201-2, still our highest total against Surrey. Chris Wood’s 3-30 ensured we won by 10 runs, despite Ramprakash again top-scoring with 61.

We won one game each in 2011; Vince 51* and Imran Tahir 2-15 took us to victory by seven wickets at the Rose Bowl while in 2012 when we won the trophy again, we won both games. At the The Ageas Bowl, Surrey recovered from 9-4 but could only post 94-6 with four Hampshire bowlers conceding fewer than 20 runs from their four overs (Mascarenhas 2-12) and we won it by seven wickets. In 2013, at the The Ageas Bowl, Carberry’s 60 took us to victory and we won again that year in a low-scoring game at the Oval, but this winning sequence was broken disappointingly in the semi-final at Edgbaston which Surrey won in the final over.

In 2015, Adam Wheater’s 78 took us to victory in the single match against Surrey that year, played at the The Ageas Bowl. We posted 186-5 and restricted the visitors to 157-8 (Briggs 3-21). Sadly, the home matches in 2017 and 2019 were both abandoned with no play two of five occasions in scheduled fixtures between the two sides. We lost both matches in the rearranged 2020 season – at the The Ageas Bowl Holland scored 65 in our below-par 138-8 with the returning Reece Topley taking 4-20, and Surrey got home for the loss of Jacks (56) with Evans 81*, almost five overs to spare. Last year the Oval was another washout and we lost by 20 runs at home despite 3-21 by Scott Currie.