Hampshire County Cricket Club 1946-2006

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A more permanent mark in the record books was made by Phil Mead, who began a career that lasted for more than thirty years in 1905. A prodigious run scorer throughout his career Mead was also, in the early years, a far from negligible slow left arm bowler. He was, finally, the subject of a biography, CP Mead, by Neil Jenkinson, a book published in 1992. Then in 1976 the tourists – West Indies – were the first to field Hampshire players against the home team, with Andy Roberts having a brief bowl but Gordon Greenidge top-scoring with 84.

I'm happy just to be contributing. I kind of shouldered that responsibility and in the end we didn't have to bowl that many overs."Following on after being bundled out for 149 before lunch, the hosts limped to 63 all out in their second innings at Wantage Road. We have played Sussex every year starting with our first-ever T20 match in 2003 at the Rose Bowl, and our overall record is Won 15; Lost 11 with one that started with No Result, and five Abandoned with no play. 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.

Arundel will of course be a home ground outside the county boundaries but even that is not quite a first. Hampshire have of course played on the Isle of Wight, and their most recent visit there last year was their third home ground on the island. In addition, after the county boundary changes of the mid-1970s, Bournemouth too became ‘away’ at home, having moved to Dorset. But neither the Isle of Wight nor Bournemouth had previously been the home ground for another first-class county, so this will be an unusual occurrence, although again not unique; among this year’s matches, with Lancashire and Leicestershire meeting at Worcester. When the day-ending rain came at tea, he was six runs shy of a fifth half-century of the season and helped his side to a 73-run lead. 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):

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Apart from five matches with no results we have played Middlesex 34 times, winning 20 and losing 14. A list of away matches covers no fewer than six grounds, with Radlett, for the second time on Tuesday; the others were Lord's, Uxbridge, Richmond, Southgate and Merchant Taylor’s School. It was an ‘old fashioned’, so not ‘limited-overs’ one-day match and after Pakistan won the toss and took the field, Jimmy Gray went for 16, then Roy Marshall (61) and Henry Horton (55) took the score to 97 and Horton and Livingstone to 165-3. Hampshire declared after 63 overs on 204-6 (Farooq 4-42) and in reply the tourists took the opportunity to acclimatise themselves, reaching 173-6 in nine fewer overs – the result, a draw.

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. In 1962, reigning Champions Hampshire played 32 Championship matches plus first-class games at Oxford University and against the touring Pakistanis. Ten years later, there were just 20 Championship matches but three one-day competitions as Hampshire played three in the 60-over Gillette Cup, four in the brand new 55-over Benson & Hedges Cup and 16 on Sunday afternoons in the 40-over League sponsored by John Player. Essex's 169 had put them on top in the match before their new ball bowling rammed home their dominance. 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.

Shaun ‘Shaggy’ Udal was an off spinner and an interesting character who, very late in his career, won four Test caps against India and Pakistan. Udal’s autobiography, My Turn To Spin, appeared in 2007, coinciding with his retirement. 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)