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CC2: Hampshire sneak past Durham

Tuesday, April 20 2004

Southampton: Hampshire v Durham
Kendall and Mascarenhas calm nerves

Durham came nerve-wrackingly close to an incredible final day victory at the Rose Bowl as they reduced Hampshire, resuming overnight at 13-2, first to 26-5 and then 52-7 chasing just 109.

Mark Davies followed up his first innings six-wicket haul with three more and England U19's Liam Plunkett picked up the other four as both John Crawley and highly-rated Michael Clarke fell without scoring.

However, they couldn't keep up the intensity for the whole innings and change bowler Reon King bore the brunt of the hosts' counter-attack. With just Shane Warne and career rabbit Alan Mullally to come, Will Kendall (31*) and Dmitri Mascarenhas (33*) added 60 unbeaten runs as the hosts made it home.

Durham 128
N Peng 49, AD Mascarenhas 3-28
Hampshire 221
MJ Clarke 75, AM Davies 6-53
Durham 201
N Peng 66, SK Warne 5-68
Hampshire 112-7
AD Mascarenhas 33*, LE Plunkett 4-48

Hampshire (18pts) beat Durham (2pts) by 3 wickets
CW Player of the Match: Mark Davies

Cardiff: Glamorgan v Derbyshire
Sutton rescues visitors

Resuming overnight on 277-3, Glamorgan set about making some quick runs in search of a declaration target. Forty-six later, with Michael Powell falling just six short of his century and veteran Matt Maynard on 59*, Robert Croft called it a day and set Derbyshire 335 to win.

Alex Wharf and Mike Kasprowicz reduced the visitors to 7-2, it seemed that the pattern of the second day was likely to repeat itself with Derbyshire collapsing. Four scores of forty-plus, from Chris Rogers (43), Hasan Adnan (42), Graeme Welch (48) and Luke Sutton (61*) saw the visitors to a safe draw despite the loss of James Bryant through injury.

Glamorgan 185
A Dale 41, KJ Dean 4-41
Derbyshire 174
CJL Rogers 47, SD Thomas 3-48
Glamorgan 323-4 dec
MA Wallace 105, G Welch 2-64
Derbyshire 238-5
LD Sutton 61*, AG Wharf 2-54

Glamorgan (7pts) drew with Derbyshire (7pts)
CW Player of the Match: Mark Wallace

Posted by Neil