Hampshire 2017 thread

[st_brendy]

Brilliant, just brilliant. Patel's first over, and it looks like he's bowing on that Taunton wicket. Good luck guys!

[budgetmeansbudget]

Just come down the pitch a little and negate the spin.

Slow spin will be manageable, if its spitting then we've had it.

[haggishants]

Somerset win.
Hampshire or Middlesex now (barring any pitch penalties).

[st_brendy]

I think Patel could have had a wicket with all six balls of that over. Two of them he was already celebrating.

[st_brendy]

Well done guys, really well done. Step one, passed.

[budgetmeansbudget]

And breathe.

For 40 minutes anyway!

[budgetmeansbudget]

Getting started again after lunch was always going to be tricky.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Now for Vince to justify his Ashes selection.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Here comes the collapse.

[st_brendy]

No blame attached to Alsop there. Just like the Middlesex batters against Leach and Bess, I'm don't know how anyone - especially a left-hander - can bat against Patel turning it like this.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Lucky that Vince and Bailey are right handers then!

[haggishants]

OK James Vince... time to pay back the England selectors faith in you.

[budgetmeansbudget]

We're almost done.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Dawson will offer little resistance.

He'll ponce around for 20 minutes for sod all runs, before succumbing.

[st_brendy]

No points deduction for Somerset. "Below average" grading - it needed a "poor" grading for a deduction.