Hampshire II shared the spoils with their Somerset counterparts, each winning one of the two ECB County Second XI T20 matches at the Ageas Bowl.
Hampshire’s opening 12-run win was more comfortable than the result suggests, with Somerset sinking to 87-8 as they chased their hosts 171-4 before an unbroken ninth wicket stand of 72 lifted their eventual response to 159-8. Fifth-wicket pair Lewis McManus and Ryan Stevenson shared an unbroken stand of 69.
Scores:
Hampshire II 171-4 (McManus 48*, Stevenson 37*, Jake Goodwin 29, Tom Alsop 25)
Somerset II 159-8 (Bess 45*, Leask 33, Brad Wheal 2-22, Josh McCoy 2-30)
Hampshire II won by 12 runs.
Johann Myburgh, a Kolpak registration with Hampshire in 2011, was Somerset’s match winner in the second game, hitting an unbeaten 77 as the visitors chased down 151-5 to win by eight wickets at a canter.
Joe Weatherley earlier hit a half-century for a young Hampshire side.
Scores:
Hampshire 151-5 (Weatherley 53, McCoy 30)
Somerset 155-2 (Myburgh 77*)
Somerset II won by eight wickets.
Hampshire’s opening 12-run win was more comfortable than the result suggests, with Somerset sinking to 87-8 as they chased their hosts 171-4 before an unbroken ninth wicket stand of 72 lifted their eventual response to 159-8. Fifth-wicket pair Lewis McManus and Ryan Stevenson shared an unbroken stand of 69.
Scores:
Hampshire II 171-4 (McManus 48*, Stevenson 37*, Jake Goodwin 29, Tom Alsop 25)
Somerset II 159-8 (Bess 45*, Leask 33, Brad Wheal 2-22, Josh McCoy 2-30)
Hampshire II won by 12 runs.
Johann Myburgh, a Kolpak registration with Hampshire in 2011, was Somerset’s match winner in the second game, hitting an unbeaten 77 as the visitors chased down 151-5 to win by eight wickets at a canter.
Joe Weatherley earlier hit a half-century for a young Hampshire side.
Scores:
Hampshire 151-5 (Weatherley 53, McCoy 30)
Somerset 155-2 (Myburgh 77*)
Somerset II won by eight wickets.
