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Brad Wheal took 3-24 as Hampshire secured a seventh bonus point against Durham at the The Ageas Bowl
Brad Wheal took three wickets for 24 runs to restrict Durham to 242-7 after Hampshire posted an impressive first innings total of 411 on day two of their vital Specsavers County Championship encounter at the The Ageas Bowl.
All-rounder Liam Dawson (62) reached his fifth Championship half-century of the season to help Hants secure all five batting points and took two wickets alongside Wheal, who removed England's Ben Stokes (50) and two other key Durham batsmen, as the visitors were cut to 186-7 in the 59th over.
Spinner Mason Crane crucially dismissed visiting skipper Paul Collingwood for a duck as Hampshire finished day two with a lead of 169 despite a 56-run partnership between Michael Richardson (50*) and Brydon Carse (30*) giving Durham hope of securing at least a second batting point on the third day.
Hampshire’s first triumph of day two came with the bat, as Dawson and Lewis McManus (24) completed a formidable effort on day one to reach 400 runs and attain all five batting points.
Dawson surpassed fifty runs for the sixth time in the Championship to move the home side within three runs of 400, then McManus took Hants over the line and onto 411 all out in the company of Gareth Berg and Crane, as Ryan Pringle took three wickets in ten balls.
Brad Wheal flashed one to the boundary and remained unbeaten in the middle, as McManus was caught in the deep by Pringle and Hampshire’s bowlers prepared themselves for action.
With Durham chasing 411, Gareth Berg dealt the visitors an early setback as in-form Keaton Jennings was rapped on the pad in the second over and the threat of Hants’ seamers was immediately apparent. Scott Borthwick joined at 2-1.
Wheal made quite an introduction by striking with his first ball of the day, finding an edge from Borthwick and reducing Durham to 39-2 in the 11th over.
Dawson featured for two threatening overs before lunch, going for just one run and effectively restricting the visitors to 44-2 from 14 overs.
The England all-rounder then supplied Hampshire’s third wicket with his fourth ball after the break, deservedly removing Stoneham, who’d been deceived consistently throughout three tight overs.
After Durham found a response through the resolute pair of Graham Clark and Stokes, Dawson removed Graham Clark for his second wicket to end an 87-run stand and Mason Crane ended Paul Collingwood’s afternoon before it had begun as two wickets in quick succession put Hampshire back on track.
Crane, deceptive and unpredictable, encouraged Collingwood to play and skew as he pushed forward onto a turning ball, having troubled Stokes with varying length and turn since being thrown the ball by captain James Vince.
Brad Wheal gave Hampshire real momentum in the game and transformed his figures into 3-23 as two catches reduced the visitors to 186-7. First, McLaren remained calm on the boundary rope as Stokes misguided a pull to deep square leg, then Jimmy Adams held onto a reckless hook from Ryan Pringle.
After Wheal’s spell clinched a second bowling point for Hampshire, the home side would have to wait for a final bonus point as Richardson (50*) and Carse (30*) put on a fifty stand for the eighth wicket.
