Morning session
Day one of the LV County Championship game Hampshire against Lancashire, a team Hampshire had never beaten at The Rose Bowl. The home side won the toss and elected to bat first. After a slightly slow start, Jimmy Adams opened his boundary account with an elegant straight drive back past bowler Oliver Newby. Partner Michael Carberry then laced Kyle Hogg to the square cover boundary before picking up two more boundaries off successive balls with a cover drive and a fierce pull stroke, in an over costing 12 runs.
Adams had a stroke of luck on 26 as he edged a Tom Smith delivery only for it to fall short of the slip fielder and run away for four. Carberry continued in a fluent manner, driving Newby to the cover fence. Adams was growing in confidence and flicked Smith out to midwicket for another boundary before unfurling an excellent on drive which gained him four more.
Lancashire then got the much needed breakthrough as Carberry (33 off 62 balls) perished pulling a Hogg delivery straight to Mark Chilton at deep backward square. New man John Crawley came in and immediately got going with a boundary down to fine leg. With regular boundaries hard to come by, both batsmen were on the lookout for singles to keep the score going along.
Crawley earned four more with a handsome looking cover drive before the visitors introduced the spin of Gary Keedy just before lunch. The veteran was unable to provide much threat save for a strangled appeal for lbw against Crawley that was turned down and the Hampshire batsman were able to take their team into lunch on 87-1.
(rosebowlplc.com, 2009)
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