Durham never looked like overhauling Hampshire’s formidable 8-221 at the Riverside on Friday, falling well short despite Ollie Robinson’s unbeaten 60 from 33 deliveries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hampshire, who have won this competition three times, with their last triumph coming in 2022, appeared on course for a massive 250 after an early onslaught from Toby Albert and Australian Chris Lynn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pair smashed 90 from six overs and took the score to 112 when Lynn (51 from 27 balls) fell to legspinner Nathan Sowter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Albert departed in the next over having made 68 from 37 balls (seven fours, four sixes), but James Vince and Australia’s \u00a0Cartwright ensured there would be no mid-innings wobble.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Skipper Vince struck 27 from 19 balls and Cartwright, despite the late fall of wickets, cracked 61 from 31 for the Hawks to post a challenging target.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Durham reached 50 in the sixth over, but batters failing to build on promising starts hurt them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
David Bedingham offered a legside catch off Scott Currie for 22, and skipper Alex Lees went for 26 after also picking out a fielder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colin Ackermann was run out by a brilliant Chris Wood throw from behind the wicket.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Durham’s race was run after the departure of Ben Raine left them 5-110 in the 11th over, with Robinson dragging them towards respectability.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Benny Howell finished with 2-28 as Durham ended on 6-195 \u00a0and Hampshire booked a record 11th finals day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durham never looked like overhauling Hampshire’s formidable 8-221 at the Riverside on Friday, falling well short despite Ollie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-121980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}