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County DIV1 2024, HANTS vs KENT forty second Match Match Report, June 30 – July 03, 2024

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Hampshire 505 for 8 dec (Vince 211, Brown 110, Evison 4-83) and 180 for 4 (Dawson 56*) beat Kent 343 and 340 (Compton 92, Finch 84, Leaning 43, Abbott 5-89) path by six wickets

Liam Dawson produced a exceptional innings of 56 in 29 balls to offer Hampshire a sensational six-wicket within the Vitality County Championship victory over Kent.

Hampshire got 179 runs to chase in 31 overs, and after Toby Albert, Fletcha Middleton and James Vince had given them a flyer, Dawson made it a cakewalk.

His two sixes and 7 fours meant he accomplished the win in 23 overs to maintain Hampshire within the title race with three wins of their final 4 matches.

Kyle Abbott had taken a five-wicket haul whereas 84-maker Harry Finch had pissed off the hosts, however Kent stay winless within the Championship since Might 3.

Middleton and Albert remained as openers however hit their T20 swap to placed on 41 in seven overs – colored in with Middleton clearing long-on and Albert scooping Grant Stewart over the ropes.

Albert edged behind however Vince carried on the momentum with 32 off 21 – which included a humungous slog sweep six.

However Vince was yorked and Middleton was bamboozled by a pea-roller both facet of a rain delay which misplaced one over.

Nick Gubbins and Dawson initially put the power-hitting again within the locker, with the run-rate in hand, to concentrate on good working and precision strikes.

However then Dawson ran amok to terrorise Matt Parkinson and Nathan Gilchrist – whose figures have been an unflattering one for 48 and one for 52 and included Dawson led overs which went for 14 and 19.

Gubbins holed out however James Fuller received Hampshire over the road with seven overs to spare when he threw his bat at a large supply.

Hampshire began the day needing eight wickets on the very least on the ultimate day, with their lead a slender 30. However have been a bowler down all day after Keith Barker pulled out of an over the earlier night, initially regarded as cramp.

It was hardly useful when Jack Leaning was dropped on 32 and 43, though solely lasted two additional balls after the second shelling when an tried hook was glanced to wicketkeeper Ben Brown.

That ended a 106-run partnership with Ben Compton, who had been a brick wall to frustrate Hampshire so long as doable, whereas additionally giving his facet a slim likelihood of victory.

His gritty keep ended when he was adjudged to have gloved the ball to brief leg earlier than Joey Evison was pinned by a supply which stayed low from Fuller.

What Compton had began along with his 92, Harry Finch continued, initially at a faster price than his predecessor – particularly throughout his 72-run stand with Tawanda Muyeye.

The wicketkeeper-batter was the glue with the tail, as Leaning had been within the first innings, though Muyeye, Charlie Stobo and Grant Stewart all fell to the rampaging Abbott.

Muyeye hit onto his personal stumps, Stobo was undone by a magnificence which hammered the highest of off stump and Stewart was lbw to a full in-ducker.

Finch was tigerish although as he reached 50 in 81 balls, and located firm with Parkinson – who like the primary innings helped add 44 for the ninth wicket.

Parkinson tickled Mohammed Abbas behind however one other 23-run stand for the final wicket additional maddened a tetchy Hampshire earlier than Abbott lastly wrapped issues up, through a Finch high edge and a juggling Vince. Abbott returning 5 for 85.

The 179 ought to have been a check, however Hampshire gained at a canter.


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