HAMPSHIRE manager Paul
Terry blamed a poor batting
performance after his
side suffered their second
LV County Championship
defeat of the season.
Hampshire dropped into the first
division's bottom two following their
six-wicket defeat against
Nottinghamshire at the Rose Bowl.
Captain Dimitri Mascarenhas gave
his side some hope by dismissingWill
Jefferson (21) and Adam Voges (4), his
teammate at Melville CC in Perth, in
his third over yesterday morning.
The visitors had resumed on 54-1,
needing 188 to win, before
Mascarenhas's two-wicket salvo left
them 74-3.
But Hampshire were let down by
inaccurate bowling, particularly from
Chris Tremlett and Sean Ervine,
either side of a three-and-a-half hour
break for rain.
Tremlett's spell of 4-0-27-0 would
have been respectable in a Twenty20
match but it undid much of
Mascarenhas's good work at the start
of the final day.
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Nottinghamshire capitalised but
instead of being given the chance to
make amends, Tremlett was strangely
absent from Hampshire's attack when
Notts resumed on 118-3, needing 70 to
win from 40 overs, after the rain
break.
James Tomlinson had Mark Wagh
(67) caught behind but Samit Patel's
unbeaten 65 from 83 balls included the
winning runs against an Ervine noball.
A hostile spell from Tremlett might
have ensured a tense finish but
instead a wayward Ervine ensured a
comfortable win for a Notts side without
Mark Ealham, Graeme Swann as
well as England fast bowlers Ryan
Sidebottom and Stuart Broad.
Mascarenhas did not have the
option of bowling Nantie Hayward,
who had a side strain, but Terry
believes the damage was done on the
first day.
Hampshire never recovered from
being bowled out for 293 in their first
innings, after winning the toss, and
only a rapid 52 from Tremlett on the
penultimate day ensured Notts would
need as many as 188 runs to win.
Terry said: "At the start of the
final day, we still felt we had a
chance of winning the game but we
didn't get enough runs in the first
innings - or the second innings for
that matter.
"It was a slow, flat wicket so we
should have been looking at 350-400
but were always battling from
behind.
"We had three or four guys who got
around 50 but nobody went on to
make a big score which was disappointing."
Mascarenhas agreed.
He said: "The first innings batting
cost us on the first day. We should
have got over 400 but a few guys got in
and then got out.
"They bowled okay but we need to
improve our batting big time if we're
going to compete with Lancashire,
Sussex and Notts.
"The lads are going to have to start
getting some big scores."
Hampshire are not in action again
until next week but it will not get any
easier for them. Andrew Flintoff is
likely to be in the Lancashire side
that arrives at the Rose Bowl in the
LV County Championship next
Friday.
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