Hampshire fell nine runs short in their bid to chase down Nottinghamshire’s 150-4 in the Barbados t20 Cup tournament at Bridgetown’s Kensington Oval yesterday.
They fell away from a promising 69-1, losing three wickets for ten runs at a critical stage of their reply and closed at 141-8, writes Mike Vimpany in Barbados.
Michael Carberry hit two huge sixes as he plundered 20 runs off 12 deliveries at the start of the Hampshire innings before being caught behind off left-armer Harry Gurney.
Tom Alsop, who had earlier taken the wicket of Riki Wessels in a rare opportunity to bowl his left-arm spin, and Jimmy Adams took Hampshire’s reply to a promising 69-1 when the innings gave way.
Teenage off-spinner Matthew Carter, who burst on to the First Class scene last summer with a remarkable 7-56 return for Notts against Somerset at Taunton, began the collapse by removing Adams (19).
Two runs later Alsop went for 31 and then Steven Mullaney (2-18) got his second wicket by removing Adam Wheater (4) to leave Hampshire wobbling at 79-4.
Lewis McManus then became a second victim for the impressive Carter, who bowls with a classical tall off-spinner’s action.
When skipper Sean Ervine (12) went at 98-6, Hampshire were left needing another 53 to win off the last five overs.
England Under-19 CWC captain Brad Taylor struck a lively 23 not out, but by then the asking rate was too much on a far from easy Bridgetown surface.
Hampshire closed at 141-8, with Mason Crane hitting a couple of nifty boundaries at the end.
Earlier, left-armer Chris Wood (2-19) was the pick of the Hampshire bowlers as Greg Smith piloted Notts to 150-4, having been put into bat.
Hampshire were in the box seat at one stage, with Michael Lumb (1), Sam Wood (11) and Wessels (10) all back in the Kensington pavilion with 56 runs on the board.
But Smith played a real skipper’s innings of 78 (one six and seven fours) and added a crucial 71 with fourth wicket partner Mullaney (39) to give Notts an above-par 150-4.
The nine-run loss left Hampshire playing Barbados A in the third-place final.
Notts play Northants, who comfortably beat Barbados A on Saturday, in the final under the Bridgetown floodlights.
They fell away from a promising 69-1, losing three wickets for ten runs at a critical stage of their reply and closed at 141-8, writes Mike Vimpany in Barbados.
Michael Carberry hit two huge sixes as he plundered 20 runs off 12 deliveries at the start of the Hampshire innings before being caught behind off left-armer Harry Gurney.
Tom Alsop, who had earlier taken the wicket of Riki Wessels in a rare opportunity to bowl his left-arm spin, and Jimmy Adams took Hampshire’s reply to a promising 69-1 when the innings gave way.
Teenage off-spinner Matthew Carter, who burst on to the First Class scene last summer with a remarkable 7-56 return for Notts against Somerset at Taunton, began the collapse by removing Adams (19).
Two runs later Alsop went for 31 and then Steven Mullaney (2-18) got his second wicket by removing Adam Wheater (4) to leave Hampshire wobbling at 79-4.
Lewis McManus then became a second victim for the impressive Carter, who bowls with a classical tall off-spinner’s action.
When skipper Sean Ervine (12) went at 98-6, Hampshire were left needing another 53 to win off the last five overs.
England Under-19 CWC captain Brad Taylor struck a lively 23 not out, but by then the asking rate was too much on a far from easy Bridgetown surface.
Hampshire closed at 141-8, with Mason Crane hitting a couple of nifty boundaries at the end.
Earlier, left-armer Chris Wood (2-19) was the pick of the Hampshire bowlers as Greg Smith piloted Notts to 150-4, having been put into bat.
Hampshire were in the box seat at one stage, with Michael Lumb (1), Sam Wood (11) and Wessels (10) all back in the Kensington pavilion with 56 runs on the board.
But Smith played a real skipper’s innings of 78 (one six and seven fours) and added a crucial 71 with fourth wicket partner Mullaney (39) to give Notts an above-par 150-4.
The nine-run loss left Hampshire playing Barbados A in the third-place final.
Notts play Northants, who comfortably beat Barbados A on Saturday, in the final under the Bridgetown floodlights.
