Warwickshire Match Crawls to a Draw 

Hampshire’s Specsavers County Championship match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston crawled to a draw after rain on day three effectively ended any chance of a positive result.

Resuming on the final day on 131-3 still 400 runs behind Hampshire’s first innings total, Warwickshire lost the important wicket of Jonathan Trott (68) early in the morning session.

It was always going to take something special to dismiss the former England batsman and it was Lewis McManus who produced a brilliant piece of glovework to stump Trott down the leg-side off the bowling of Gareth Berg.

However, with the final day offering only a pursuit of bonus, Sam Hain and Tim Ambrose added an unbroken 56 in 14 overs up to lunch.

The Warwickshire pair continued after lunch where they left off in the morning session and they took their partnership to 156 as Hain went into tea on 111 (194 balls, 15 fours, one six), his first century of the season, and Tim Ambrose on 61 (159 balls, six fours) his fourth half-century in successive championship innings.

Spinner Mason Crane picked up his first wickets of the match during the evening session to dismiss Tim Ambrose (104) & Sam Hain (135) and grab another bowling bonus point for the visitors, but it was at the earliest time possible of 4:50pm that the players shook hands as the match ended a draw with Hampshire taking 10 points back to the The Ageas Bowl.