Hampshire also broke a record with the ball as Sonny Baker became the first man in Blast history to take a five-wicket haul in an innings on Finals Day. <\/p>\n
The Hawks won the toss and opted to bowl first, limiting the Steelbacks to 169 having earlier looked likely to post a big score.<\/p>\n
But Hampshire’s reply got off to the worst possible start as opener Toby Albert was caught behind from the first ball before captain James Vince departed for 17. <\/p>\n
After Ben Mayes, Tristan Stubbs and Hilton Cartwright failed to create a meaningful partnership with Weatherley, Liam Dawson jogged out to the middle and began to build something promising. <\/p>\n
The left-arm all-rounder posted a handy 35 runs to leave Hampshire needing 32 from 20 balls, but was then run-out at the non-strikers end after setting off for a leg-bye single which Weatherley turned down.<\/p>\n
Hampshire’s final four batters then produced just five runs between them as Baker was bowled in the final over to hand Northants the title. <\/p>\n
“I don’t think we played a great game to be honest in the final,” Weatherley said. <\/p>\n
“The turnaround was so tight and I think we were a little bit sloppy in the field, we could have chased 170 but just needed some partnerships.<\/p>\n
“The wicket wasn’t straightforward all day, it wasn’t flat but you could bat if you developed partnerships. I was hitting the ball fairly well going into it and literally just tried to help the team as best I could really. <\/p>\n
“I wanted to get it done in the end and was developing a partnership with Daws (Liam Dawson) which was looking like we were going to get it done but ultimately we just couldn’t get over the line.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire also broke a record with the ball as Sonny Baker became the first man in Blast history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-810566","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\/810566","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=810566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}