Hampshire Thrash Surrey With Over 30 Overs To Spare

Excellent bowling from seasoned seamer James Fuller, inexperienced slow left-armer Andrew Neal and pacy youngster Manny Lumsden proved excessively overmuch for Surrey successful what became an embarrassingly one-sided nine-wicket Hampshire victory.

The Hawks dismissed Surrey for 160 successful 46.3 overs astatine nan Oval earlier skipper Nick Gubbins anchored a buccaneering pursuit pinch 87 not retired from 60 balls.

Hampshire's 4th triumph successful 5 Group A matches, clinched pinch a monolithic 30.5 overs to spare, boosts their ambitions of qualification for nan Metro Bank One-Day Cup knock-out stages.

Gubbins was initially joined successful an opening business of 54 pinch Ali Orr (27) earlier Fletcha Middleton arrived to deed an unbeaten 35 from 24 balls successful an unbroken 2nd wicket guidelines of 108 successful conscionable 9.3 overs.

Fast bowler Nathan Barnwell was thrashed for 50 from his 3 overs – Gubbins doubly hoicking him for six successful an opening complete costing 21 – and left-arm spinner Yousuf Majid's 3 overs went for 31 arsenic Gubbins and Middleton accelerated brutally towards nan decorativeness line.

Gubbins deed 3 sixes and 13 fours successful all, while Middleton's publication was 2 sixes and 4 fours.

Earlier, 35-year-old Fuller vanished pinch 4-34 aft polishing disconnected a Surrey innings that ne'er sewage going and was successful threat of complete implosion astatine 89-6 earlier keeper-batsman Josh Blake and bowlers James Taylor, Barnwell and Majid provided astatine slightest immoderate little bid guidance successful beforehand of a near-5,000 crowd.

Blake was Surrey's associated top-scorer pinch 22 alongside South Asian Cricket Academy postgraduate Nikhil Gorantla, who was Fuller's first unfortunate erstwhile he was excellently caught debased down by Neal diving guardant astatine mid-on successful nan 18th over.

That near Surrey 68-3 and Lumsden had already made his people by then, first forcing Rory Burns to miscue a propulsion to his 4th shot – to beryllium caught and bowled for 20 – and past seeing Adam Thomas chop connected to his stumps for 12 successful his 3rd over.

At 16 years and 288 days, Lumsden bowled pinch genuine gait successful conscionable his 2nd List A quality and though location were a number of chaotic deliveries, including an intended bouncer that flew for 4 wides, he impressed crossed 2 spells successful his 2-46 from 10 overs.

Even much awesome was 25-year aged spinner Neal, who played 2 first-class matches for Leeds-Bradford MCCU successful 2019, but only made nan first of his erstwhile 4 List A appearances earlier this month.

His 3-33 from 10 nicely-controlled overs now gives him 9 wickets successful nan title and he numbered nan Surrey middle-order of Ben Foakes, Ollie Sykes and Cameron Steel arsenic his victims.

Foakes mishit to agelong connected for five, Sykes was brilliantly held by a diving Felix Organ astatine agelong connected for 7 and Steel drove tamely to short other screen to spell for five.

Blake's 22 was ended by a fatal nibble astatine Fuller, Taylor (19) offered a fewer meaty blows earlier skying Scottish all-rounder Brandon McMullen to agelong connected and Barnwell departed for 15 miscuing precocious to keeper Ben Mayes.

Majid was near 13 not retired erstwhile No 11 Alex French fenced Fuller to gaffe to spell for a 5th shot duck and each that remained was to spot really quickly Hampshire's apical bid could sound disconnected nan runs.

Thanks to Gubbins, Orr and Middleton nan lucifer was complete by 4.10pm.

Match study supplied by ECB Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay

Group A

Utilita Bowl: Hampshire v Notts Outlaws

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