| LV= County Championship Division One, Ageas Bowl (day 4) |
| Hampshire 219: Brown 78; Lawes 5-27 & 172: Vince 56; Jacks 5-87 |
| Surrey 207: Sudharsan 73; Dawson 5-44 & 132: Sudharsan 40; Dawson 4-53 |
| Hampshire (19 pts) beat Surrey (3 pts) by 52 runs |
| Match scorecard |
Hampshire grew to become simply the second staff to beat Surrey within the County Championship this season as they completed off the newly topped champions in fast time at Southampton.
However, as a substitute, they misplaced their final 4 males for simply 20 runs as Hants matched their summer season’s haul of eight Championship wins to safe third place for the second 12 months in a row.
Solely Lancashire had beforehand overwhelmed Surrey in red-ball cricket this season, having additionally been the one staff to beat them in 2022.
However England spinner Liam Dawson, who prolonged his season’s greatest haul to 49, and Pakistan seamer Mohammad Abbas, who ended the marketing campaign with 53 scalps, obtained the job accomplished inside half an hour, taking two wickets every.
Surrey had made it clear all through the match that they’d the intention to complete their triumphant season off with a victory. However all they needed to present in the long run was being offered with the Division One trophy by England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Richard Thompson.
It took simply 5 balls for the primary Surrey wicket to fall when Jordan Clark superior down the wicket to Abbas and prodded to Hants skipper James Vince at first slip.
Jamie Overton got here out and performed a straight drive after which a strong sweep shot, however then produced an agricultural swing which allowed him to be stumped by Ben Brown off Dawson.
It was the primary of three wickets to fall in 12 balls.
The Abbas and Vince mixture struck once more when Kemar Roach departed second ball after his wild swing flew to first slip.
First-innings half-centurion Sai Sudharsan batted sensibly till Dan Worrall arrived and hacked at one, at which level his fashionable 40 turned extra in direction of aggression.
The Indian then took on Dawson however solely managed to prime edge to Vince, who took his third catch of the ultimate morning of the season.
Hampshire captain James Vince:
“It’s good to complete with a win. We have completed off with three wins in a row together with Essex and champions Surrey.
“Liam Dawson has been incredible. He obtained off to a difficult begin however, because the finish of April, he has been incredible with bat and ball. He is stood up in essential moments and, when wickets have assisted him, he is performed a large half.
“It’s straightforward to look again at little moments the place we may have turned a loss right into a draw or a draw right into a win. We all know how shut we’re but in addition how a lot these small margins in video games impression the general season.
“Third is disappointing, our objective is to win the Championship, however on the similar time to complete within the prime three constantly reveals we’re doing a whole lot of issues effectively.
“We made [T20 Blast] Finals Day, misplaced within the last of the One-Day Cup and completed third within the Championship. A kind of years the place you’ve gotten been there or thereabouts in all competitions however don’t have anything to indicate for it.
“However credit score to Surrey for profitable it. They’ve been the stand-out staff throughout the entire season and should be champions.”
Surrey head coach Gareth Batty:
“It was a bizarre option to recover from the road half manner via the day however the County Championship is about up over six months
“You do not win it over someday or one sport. It’s the marathon cup and you continue to need to nonetheless rejoice it and respect it even in case you are then on the unsuitable finish of the outcome.
“We utterly perceive why, as a result of we had already obtained to the purpose we had pushed in direction of all season, and that was to raise the trophy once more.”
Report equipped by ECB Reporters’ Community.