Hampshire v Essex - County Championship Division Two – Day 1 – Live Score and Update
Essex 180 v Hampshire 165/4 (43.0 ov) - Hampshire trail by 15 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
At stumps on the first day of the four-day match in the ongoing County Championship Division Two between Hampshire and Essex, Hampshire trail by 15 runs with six wickets in hand in their first innings, at The Rose Bowl, Southampton.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hampshire-c789 on winning the toss chose to field first, aiming to restrict the opposition on a small total.
The bowlers responded well to the call of their skipper, as the fielding side drew firshttp://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472 blood in the second over with only seven runs on the board, when DJ Balcombe dismissed Essex opener T Westley for four.
Then opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jonathan-Clare-c1729 Mickleburgh was next to lose his wicket, as he crumbled against Balcombe after scoring only seven runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/OA-Shah-c2134 was disappointing as he mustered only nine runs before finding his way back to the pavilion, leaving his side standing on a total of 25 runs.
ML Pettini and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RN-ten-Doeschate-c2338 smacked a few boundaries to take the score to 47, before the batting side saw the demise of their fourth wicket with ten Doeschate falling on a score on nine.
At this time, Hampshire bowlers, had everything under control while making life extremely difficult for the batting side.
Before allowing things to get any worse, ML Pettini and skipper JS Foster hammered the tally to 86 after which the skipper was removed by Balcombe on a knock of ten runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Charles-Lennox-James-c44309 Wheater was up next, and the Essex duo jabbed a couple of fantastic shots to post a total of 112, however, this partnership failed to prosper as Wheater fell after contributing 19 runs.
Essex required big partnerships in order to end the day with their batsmen still in the middle. However, Hampshire had other plans as the fielding side wrapped up the innings in 52.2 overs with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 posting a first innings total of 180 runs.
From Hampshire, DJ Balcombe and DA Griffiths were phenomenal with four and three wickets to their names.
Hampshire batted decently, and managed to post 165 runs for the loss of four wickets by the end of the first day of play.
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