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21-04-2025
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Notts left to settle for frustrating draw
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day four)Warwickshire 93 & 181-6: Barnard 40*, Mousley 32;Tongue 2-49Nottinghamshire 367: Hameed 138*, O'Neill 50; Booth 5-90Nottinghamshire (14 pts) drew with Warwickshire (11 pts)Match scorecard Dominant Nottinghamshire ran out of time and had to settle for a draw against Warwickshire after rain took out much of the final day of their County Championship Division One match at trailing by 274 on first innings, entered the final day on 163-6 second time around, with the visitors four wickets away from the win their command of the match deserved. But rain prevented play until 15:45 BST, leaving Nottinghamshire's bowlers just 36 overs at their disposal on a flattening pair Ed Barnard (40 not out, 149 balls) and Olly Hannon-Dalby (seven not out, 62 balls) blocked their way to safety as Warwickshire ended on ended with much relief at a draw, having been outplayed. Nottinghamshire's frustration, after seizing control with some brilliant bowling on the second day, was deep, though they did not help themselves with pedestrian batting on the third morning. With heavy rain always likely on day four, there was a clear case for pressing home their advantage in more proactive fashion and trying to force victory before the final gamble on the weather allowing them sufficient time did not succeed as Barnard and Hannon-Dalby 'parked the bus' on an increasingly placid pitch. After play finally resumed, just three runs came from the first 14 seventh-wicket pair survived 20 overs with few alarms when Nottinghamshire had their last throw of the dice – a new ball with 16 overs remaining. By that stage, however, the dark clouds had rolled back in and the floodlights were on and only four balls were possible with the new ball before the umpires took the players off for bad light, never to were left mightily relieved to have drawn a match in which they were so emphatically second best. Nottinghamshire might reflect that County Championship matches are very hard to win, so when you do build a winning position, it's a good idea to stay positive and do everything you can to turn it into a Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
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14-04-2025
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Gubbins and Albert help Hants deny Surrey victory
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (day four)Surrey 253 & 342-9 dec: Sibley 105, Smith 84; Baker 5-80Hampshire 219 & 300-5: Gubbins 117, Albert 78*; Clark 2-39Surrey (12 pts) drew with Hampshire (11 pts) Match scorecard Nick Gubbins and Toby Albert were Hampshire's heroes as they denied Surrey's last-day attempt to force a first victory of the new County Championship season at the Kia scored a five-hour 117 and Albert an equally defiant 78 not out as Hampshire, starting the day on 35-3 in their second innings in pursuit of a 377-run win target, finished on light actually had the final say, forcing the players from the field for what turned out to be the loss of four overs, when 10 overs were left and Hampshire were still 78 short of what would have been a remarkable triumph against the 2022, 2023 and 2024 just six overs left when the players returned, Jordan Clark sent down two balls – one of which was hit for a single by Albert – and then the players shook hands on the truth, however, and despite Tom Prest being unbeaten on 32 alongside Albert, it had seemed increasingly unlikely that Hampshire could have scored the remaining runs anyway against a testing Surrey seam attack in gloomy conditions and with the floodlights 22.2 overs with the second new ball, Surrey had restricted Hampshire to 80 runs for the loss of Gubbins and run-scoring was difficult against a high-class pace quartet in which Matt Fisher and Clark were especially it took Surrey almost an hour and a half to claim their only wicket of the morning session, Fletcha Middleton pinned leg before by Fisher after advancing steadily from his overnight 11 to fourth wicket stand with Gubbins had been worth 74 and provided Hampshire with much-needed stability following the chaotic slide to 30-3 in the murk of the third evening, when Kemar Roach had removed opener Mark Stoneman and both nightwatchmen, Brad Wheal and Sonny Baker, had fallen to Jordan was to come for Hampshire, with Albert – who had laboured through 27 balls for just one run before lunch – joining Gubbins in a partnership that eventually realised 143 in 52 overs and which grew in authority during an afternoon session in which Surrey went tea Gubbins, three short of his hundred, and Albert, who had gone to his half-century from 111 balls, looked in total 27 runs came from the first nine overs with the second new ball, with Clark particularly miserly, and then Fisher replacing Worrall at the Vauxhall End brought an almost immediate to whip a ball from around the wicket that appeared to keep a little lower than expected, Gubbins was trapped lbw after facing 247 balls and hitting 12 fours, perhaps the best of them a magnificent on drive off Worrall that took him to Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.
