John Crawley is on the verge of making Rose Bowl history.
Crawley beame only the second Hampshire batsman to score more than 1,000 championship runs in a season since the move to The Rose Bowl when he plundered 1,246 last year.
But he will reach the landmark for the second successive season, and with SIX games remaining, if he scores an aggregate of 81 against Yorkshire this week.
It is the sort of form that made Crawley one of the most talked about young batsmen in the country in the mid-1990s.
Crawley is playing the best cricket of his five-year Hampshire career and is now being put forward as a contender for an England recall three-and-a-half years since playing the last of his 37 Tests.
Only three English batsmen, Kent left hander Matthew Walker and Surrey duo Mark Ramprakash and Rikki Clarke, have scored more first-class runs in 2006 .
And, at 34, the right hander is the same age as the likes of Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist and Damien Martyn.
Read the full preview of Hampshire's championship match against Yorkshire in today's Southern Daily Echo
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