33-3 Abbas gets his 8th of the match
71-3 at Tea/Funeral break…
208-4 at the close.
323 to win. 6 wickets to get obvs
Only 323 to get & a full day to get them?
We’re doomed!
White out LBW in 2nd over of the day
Holland grabs a second wicket 219-6
235-7, Abbott gets Roland-Jones LBW from a yorker
Come on the @Lets-B-Drinking…
3 men have played first class cricket for Hants and professional football for Southampton and have appeared in an FA Cup Final (not necessarily for Saints)…
Ted Drake
CB Fry
235-8 Abbas strikes
That’s 2…
Sowter LBW to Abbott 245-9
Wasn’t really paying attention - Don Roper?
Edit - yes. Don Roper - played for Arsenal in 1952 Cup Final
Middlesex all out 281 Hants win by loads.
22 points on the board I think.
It’s a Hampshire winners day
Heard it at the time. Got Fry and Drake.
Hants V Gloucestershire
Hants won the toss and chose to bat.
65-1 at lunch.
168-1 64 overs
Slow accumulation Holland 90no Alsop 59 no was dropped earlier
Holland was dropped. An absolute folly at 1st slip, by Brathwaite the W Indian.
It was the first ball I saw when I got home. No jinx me.