Hampshire are already facing a struggle to maintain their unbeaten start to the season after after being bowled out for 109 on day one of their latest Specsavers County Championship match against Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford.

After winning the toss and batting first on a hot and sunny day in Manchester, Hampshire were up against an in-form James Anderson (3-42) as he prepared for his England duties.

It was Anderson who took the first wicket of Jimmy Adams for just five before Steven Croft produced the moment of the day when he slid to stop a James Vince drive at mid-on and unleashed a low throw which ran out the England hopeful for 0.

As an audition for gaining his first Test cap, it couldn’t have gone worse for Vince in front of the watching England coach Trevor Bayliss.

It got worse when Michael Carberry and Liam Dawson fell to successive balls from Neil Wagner, the latter the victim of a vicious in-swinging yorker which left Dawson hobbling as he exited the stage.

When Will Smith was strangled down leg side by Luke Procter for 18, Hampshire were left 57-5 at lunch and worse was to come after the interval when Croft produced another piece of brilliant fielding to dismiss Ryan McClaren for four with a stunning diving catch at mid-on.

Debutant Gareth Andrew followed soon after edging an excellent short-pitched delivery from Kyle Jarvis with Tino Best becoming Anderson’s third victim when he edged to Liam Livingstone for 11.

At the other end, Adam Wheater battled hard to get Hampshire over 100 but when he played on to his wicket off Procter for 32, the game was up for Hampshire as James Tomlinson lasted just five balls before also chopping on as Procter finished with 3-14.

While there was plenty of bounce and pace in the pitch, Lancashire were soon making a mockery of Hampshire's total.

A confident start saw openers Karl Brown and Haseeb Hameed reach 53 together before Brown was lbw for 40 to Andrew’s first delivery for his new county.

For the rest of the afternoon Lancashire asserted their dominance with Hameed and Procter both playing watchful innings as they dealt comfortably with the ineffectual leg spin of teenager Mason Crane.

At the close of play both players were approaching their half-centuries after an unbeaten stand of 104 for the second wicket took Lancashire to 157-1 and a lead of 48.

At least Hampshire could take some encouragement from Andrew's debut spell, less than 48 hours after the former Worcestershire man agreed a short-term deal.

"I got the call to play on Friday afternoon while I was making my cricket club's teas so I was in a bit of a flap," he explained.

"I've played a couple of second team games so I'm a bit under-cooked but I'm ready to take my chance. It's match-to-match and we'll go from there.

"Lancashire bowled really well and obviously we didn't bat as well as we'd have liked to.

"We need to stay in the game so we'll be fighting on Monday. We need to keep it simple, hit the deck hard and bowl nice and straight.

"It was a dream start for me to take a wicket with my first ball and hopefully my old man was looking down.

"I lost him only four weeks ago so it's been a tough time but it's been great to have the opportunity to get back into first class cricket."