Recent Match Report – Hampshire vs Gloucs South Group 2022

Hampshire 178 for 7 (McDermott 50) Gloucestershire 169 for 7 (Bracey 40, Fuller 2-23) by 9 runs

That Gloucestershire may need truly stolen this match crept up on Hampshire when least anticipated. They dominated the majority of the evening however nonetheless discovered themselves defending 12 from three balls, at which level Chris Wood summoned a superb yorker to Benny Howell, from which solely a single accrued. Jack Taylor was bowled round his legs from the subsequent ball and Hampshire lastly quelled an unlikely insurrection.

With 19 wanted from the final six balls, Wood had begun his remaining over with a present on leg stump, however Taylor flicked it straight to Toby Albert at quick effective. Wood then had one other aberration and this time his leg-stump half-volley was deposited over sq. leg for six. Three hours {of professional} cricket practically fell aside in a few balls.

Other than a nervewracking end, pity the particular person charged with attempting to place collectively a highlights reel from this match as a result of it was a reasonably uninspiring affair, however the end result of the sweat and the labour of one other onerous-fought evening within the Vitality Blast, was that Hampshire’s late cost to the quarter-finals continues, and likely at Gloucestershire’s expense. They are taking part in clever, properly-drilled cricket.

Hampshire now leapfrog Gloucestershire and knock them out of the highest 4. They should meet once more on the Ageas Bowl of their penultimate match on July 1.

At 64 for five from 7.5 overs, Gloucestershire seemed to be lifeless within the water, besides that James Bracey, a finisher at No. 6, and Taylor, an totally unpredictable flayer, a spot decrease, each have the flexibility to oxygenate an innings. Bracey would achieve this by authorized strategies, the type of man who wouldn’t solely have a First Aid certificates however bear in mind the teachings. Taylor? Not so satisfied. But when he did save a life it might in all probability be full of a lot motion it might make a Hollywood film.

Bracey fell for 40 in 26 balls, an unsightly backside-of-the-bat swing to mid-off, however the assault was then taken up by Howell, who completed with 34 not out from 18 balls in an impressed however unrewarded finale.

Sometimes the scoreboard doesn’t fairly convey the temper. Hampshire’s innings had felt like a perpetual wrestle, an innings wanting memorable hits with the boundary cleared on the total solely 3 times. But if the temper was 160 at greatest, the end result was 178 for 7 and two extra factors in the direction of one other final-eight place.

James Vince’s silky, run-strewn season has been on the coronary heart of Hampshire’s restoration from a dreadful begin. He had made two lots of up to now three matches, in opposition to Somerset and Kent, however this was a gray and grouchy, pint of gentle. Bristol evening, fairly than a bottle of high quality midsummer Chablis, and it was no shock when Vince provided a static minimize at a large one and edged Mohammad Amir to the wicketkeeper.

McDermott, stocky and doubtlessly damaging, was comparatively guarded, and he had a life, on 37, when he thrust his head again in disappointment as he did not make clear contact with a pull in opposition to Taylor solely to seek out that he had mistimed it so badly that Glenn Phillips couldn’t fairly make floor from deep sq. leg.

David Payne, who can now proudly name himself “England’s David Payne”, even when no person else fairly remembers a debut in an ODI in opposition to Netherlands in Amstelveen, conceded 10 from two muscular pulls. McDermott then quickened his tempo in opposition to Taylor’s spin however when he moved throughout his stumps and defied Payne to lock on to his leg stump, Payne did simply that with pinpoint accuracy. England bowler, fella. Don’t come that one with me.

Gloucestershire’s high-order misfired. Fuller, a former Gloucestershire participant, is having an influential season and he had Ian Cockbain caught off a vanguard for 19 after which bowled Chris Dent via the gate for twenty-four in a formidable 2 for 23.

As spin bowlers have had so few mentions this season, it must also be remarked that two gradual left-armers – Tom Smith, to bowl Joe Weatherley, and Dawson, to strike Higgins’ off stump in comparable trend – each produced classically turning deliveries. The solely distinction was that Dawson adopted up his by speeding in the direction of the gang along with his finger to his lips to inform them to close up – all to do with an earlier boundary save. In soccer, such gestures are virtually de rigueur, however in cricket it isn’t remotely etiquette in any respect and the umpires might be nervously fingering their report sheets and questioning whether or not to disregard it.