James Vince guided Hampshire to a victory over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851
Hampshire overcame Surrey by seven wickets in a match of the Friends Life Twenty20, at The Rose Bowl, Southampton in England on Friday, June 3rd, 2011. The hosts required 141 for victory, which they achieved comfortably losing just three batsmen.
Surrey’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zander-de-Bruyn-c98565 was the top scorer of the match with 52 runs but ended up being on the losing side.
The visitors were put into bat by the Hampshire skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 player expected it to ease out even more in the second innings. This is exactly what happened, as the conditions turned out to
be much more batting friendly as the game progressed.
Surrey suffered an early blow, as their wicketkeeper batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hampshire-c789.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611. The pair put together 38 runs for the second wicket, but got out after adding 19 and 17 runs to the total respectively.
Two more wickets fell in quick succession and the visitors were in deep trouble with five batsmen back in the hut for just 77 runs on the board. However, South African all-rounder, de Bruyn, paired with lower-order batsmen, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Christopher-John-Schofield-c50881, rescuing the
team from trouble.
The pair put together 48 runs for the sixth wicket partnership before de Bruyn got out. He batted brilliantly, scoring 52 runs off just 38 balls with the help of three fours and two massive sixes. The Proteas player was unfortunate to be run-out at a very
crucial stage of the game.
Schofield remained unbeaten on 30 from 21 deliveries, smashing one four and two sixes, guiding his side’s total to 140.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Tahir, was the pick of the bowlers for the hosts, picking up two wickets in the match for just 15 runs in his four-over spell.
Hampshire got off to a good start in their innings once they came out to bat. Openers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jimmy-Adams-c1696 collected 42 runs for the first wicket, before the latter got out after adding 12 runs to the total.
Just 10 runs later, Lumb also got out after scoring 36 runs from 24 balls, hitting seven fours. However, the innings was then held together by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Neil-McKenzie-c2094, who put together 83 runs for the third wicket, taking the game away from the opposition.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/McKenzie-c75497 got out after scoring 32 runs whereas Vince remained unbeaten in 51, guiding his team to victory.
De Bruyn managed to pick up one wicket for his team, but his effort went in vain in the end.
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