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Hampshire County Cricket Club 1946-2006

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Hampshire’s team was much changed too with only Peter Sainsbury surviving from the 1962 side after the great batsman Roy Marshall retired at the end of the 1972 season. Other recent departures included pace bowlers Bob Cottam and John Holder while Barry Reed and Larry Worrell would play no more for the first team. Captain Richard Gilliat had the challenge of moulding a new side and no one - including the ‘Bookies' offering 66-1 against them winning the Championship - can have anticipated what would occur in 1973 as Hampshire won their second, and to date, last title. In the modern game of 12-month contracts and opportunities to earn money in various limited-overs competitions around the world, benefits have become far less significant and the cap is now a recognition for good performances, usually presented on the field and awarded recently to bowlers Chris Wood, and Fidel Edwards - all our capped players can be identified by a small blue dot alongside their names on the Players’ Board on the Atrium walkway. Well played Australia – again not a thriller but a very fine all-round performance. The final figures: The committee consisted of three former players, Mike Barnard, Tim Tremlett & Will Kendall, plus scorer & statistician Vic Isaacs, plus Neil Jenkinson my predecessor and fine Hampshire historian, and me. Having compiled an initial pre-war list, we would often discover a photograph or other evidence showing another recipient but it’s likely that we now have a definitive list that is as accurate as possible. RUNS: average winning margin was 129 runs. In one match the margin was in single figures (5) otherwise nothing under 33, with 13 matches ending with a winning margin of 100+ (largest 309)

Adam Rossington was challenged outside his off stump by John Turner to edge behind - the newly England-qualified fast bowler claiming Championship best of 3-23. It was potentially a harder week because we wouldn't have Keith [Barker] in the side and there was a lot of talk about having to bowl a few more overs. Vince, enjoying these opponents, hit 68 at Merchant Taylor’s School in 2014 accompanied by the former Middlesex batsman Owais Shah (49*); then Briggs, 3-20, bowled us to victory. In 2015 on our first visit to Lord’s, Carberry 72 and Shah 64 led our first T20 victory there, but in 2016, Malan hit 93 at Uxbridge which is their highest score against us, leading to victory by 69 runsEssex's 169 had put them on top in the match before their new ball bowling rammed home their dominance. World Cup final on Sunday ( India v Australia, 8.30 start GMT ) is being broadcast on Channel 5 as well as on Sky. The most surprising statistic is that of the 44 other matches 22 were won batting first and 22 batting second. The toss did not help with only 16 toss winners going on to win the game, although the captains seemed to improve – they won just four of the first 20 matches having won the toss but won seven of the final eight. The other figures (rounded up or down): is the 60 th season of single innings, limited-overs matches between first-class counties. Over those years the matches, always scheduled for one day but sometimes extended or shortened by weather, have been contested over various formats with overs consisting of 65, 60, 55, 50, 45 or 40 per side. They were the first regular county competitions to carry the names of sponsors of which there have been many. Despite all these variations the matches are together known as List A to distinguish them from first-class or Twenty 20 games. Tom Prest’s innings was just one of a remarkable set of performances in this year’s competition by a group of youngsters whose promise surely rivals that of the group of a dozen years ago, that included Vince, Liam Dawson, Danny Briggs, Chris Wood and Michael Bates.

In respect of the County Championship, we have all been here before, just twelve months ago, and while in the future that table will show Hampshire in fourth place for the first time, we know that Hampshire were within one ball of being Champions for the third time. In 1975 they came very close again but finished third. This brief period was, nonetheless the finest in Hampshire’s Championship history and there was compensation in 1975 and again in 1978 when Gilliat’s team won their first limited-overs titles, the Sunday League. The one mystery with this fine side was how they had failed to reach a Lord’s Final, losing semi-finals in 1975, 1976 & 1978. Fletcha Middleton, who has opened throughout the season, only made eight before Sam Cook stung his pads.

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Among the beneficiaries post-war were Vic Cannings (cap 1950, benefit 1959), Jimmy Gray (cap 1951, benefit 1960), Roy Marshall (cap 1955, benefit 1961), Trevor Jesty (cap 1971, benefit 1982), and Malcolm Marshall (cap 1981, benefit 1987).

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