Hampshire v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hampshire-c789 prevail in a nerve-racking encounter – Live Score and Update
Hampshire 244/5 (40/40 ov) v Warwickshire 244/7 (40.0/40 ov) - Hampshire won (lost fewer wickets)
With cricket going through its evolutionary phase, the game is getting more and more unpredictable with teams fighting it till the final delivery.
In the Clydesdale Bank 40 final, fans witnessed the ‘never say die’ attitude by both sides as Hampshire and Warwickshire clobbered 244 runs, forcing the officials to name the team with fewer wickets as triumphant.
Hampshire would now be thanking the stars for losing five wickets and then going on to nab seven Warwickshire batsmen.
JHK Adams, the Hampshire skipper was named as the Player of the Match for his impressive innings of 66 that helped his squad post a daunting total on the board.
Meanwhile, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wood-c98110 was the best bowler with three wickets to his name as he was equally responsible for the victory.
Earlier, Warwickshire chose to field first on winning the toss, as they wanted their bowlers to subdue the opposition on a meagre tally in order to comfortably win the clash.
However, a staggering opening partnership of 48 by Hampshire’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MA-Carberry-c1868 and JM Vince pervented that from happening with the batsmen hammering 35 and 18 runs.
After the demise of the openers, Hampshire’s batting onslaught was continued by the middle-order with the skipper taking lead, backed by ND http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SM-Katich-c2543 (35).
Beginning the hectic run chase, Warwickshire had an equally impressive start as openers DL Maddy and V Chopra staged a stand of 53 runs.
With an opening stand like this, things were made quite simple for the remaining batting line-up and they now needed to keep wickets in hand in order to reach the tough total.
With Chopra back in the pavilion for 26, DL Maddy and number-three batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597 steered the side to 89 runs in the second-wicket partnership.
Hampshire striker, LA Dawson, then crashed the party by dismissing Maddy, who was caught after scoring 35 runs.
TR Ambrose was in next, and the batsmen forged another intimidating partnership alongside Bell, with the duo taking the score to 137 before Ambrose lost his wicket on 26 runs.
With Bell exhibiting tremendous form backed by fine show from the rest of the batsmen, the game was heading towards a close finish.
With Bell as the highest scorer from his side by hammering 81 runs, Warwickshire matched the total that was posted by their opponents but were unlucky as they had lost more wickets which cost them dearly.
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