IF YOU were only able to see the last hour of the second day of Hampshire's PPP Healthcare County Championship match with Somerset, you would have missed the main event, but seen all the action.

Hampshire staged a late-in-the-day show for those Johnnie-come-latelies, whipping out the last five Somerset batsmen for 36 runs. They included the scalp of Jamie Cox who had held sway for most of the day on what has become his favourite English ground, possibly even more than Taunton.

Somerset's Australian captain will be out there leading the protests, sobbing and lying in front of bulldozers come September when The County Ground is pulled. In last year's corresponding fixture Cox made 216 and an unbeaten 129. Add in his 153 yesterday and that totals 498.

Cox's scorebook entry made strange reading. In at 17.45 and out at 17.50. He hadn't been at the crease 24 hours, it just seemed like it to the Hampshire bowlers who laboured manfully.

Cox batted just over six-and-a-half hours and struck 21 boundaries before Simon Renshaw snared him, tinkering with his concentration enough to tempt him into slashing at a widish delivery.

Somerset's collapse actually began with the previous wicket, the dismissal of Rob Turner who fell to a well-judged catch in the deep by Alex Morris off Renshaw, but not before he had taken part in the plundering of 131 in 37 overs with his captain.

Renshaw wrapped up the innings by trapping Matthew Bulbeck, finishing with the creditable figures of 3-23 off 14.1 overs, all taken near the close after the second new ball had been taken.

Somerset partially contributed to their own downfall with a real Komic Kuts run-out.

There's inevitably a laugh in store when there's a runner on the field and when the injured Stefan Jones instinctively set off for a run and his runner and the non-striker got in safely, Hampshire showed an awareness of the rules which say that if the batsman strays out of crease he can be run out.

Earlier in the day Shane Warne had porovided the highlight of the morning session when he took his first Championship wicket after Derek Kenway held to a classic leg-break dismissal although there was some hint the ball failed to make contact with the outside edge of Piran Holloway's bat.

l Hampshire suffered a crushing 241- run defeat in their Second XI Championship match away to Warwickshire.

A Warwickshire containing 11 players with first-team experience showed no mercy to a weakened Hampshire side which included six guest players. One of those, MCC groundstaff youngster Andrew Sexton, top scored with 36 as Hamsphire could muster only 95 in their second innings to accompany their first innings 86.

James Adams and Zac Morris (both 10) were the only other batsmen to lurch into double figures.

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