Hampshire teenage pace bowler Manny Lumsden says he’s “grateful for the experience” after making his T20 first-team breakthrough this summer.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old has played in three of the Hawks’ matches as they sit top<\/a> of the Vitality Blast table with three wins from four games so far.<\/p>\n His Hawks T20 debut came in a humbling seven-wicket<\/a> opening-match defeat away to holders Somerset last month.<\/p>\n “That didn’t go to plan, but I learned a lot from it” he told BBC Radio Solent. “I’m just grateful to have had the experience. <\/p>\n “I can take a few things forward, and learnings, and that’s why I’ve bowled better since.”<\/p>\n Lumsden went for 19 runs in his one over at Taunton, including being hit for two sixes and one four – but he had only arrived two minutes before the game started.<\/p>\n “The train service basically failed,” he said. “It was a bit stressful but you can’t do it much about it.”<\/p>\n The England Under-19 international wasn’t selected for the Hawks’ second match, a 30-run home victory<\/a> over Essex, but bounced back with two wickets in their five-wicket home win<\/a> over Surrey.<\/p>\n He took the scalps of England internationals Sam Curran and Ollie Pope for just eight.<\/p>\n He said: “That really settled the nerves down a lot. I was thinking of flashbacks to that Somerset game but after I got that first wicket I felt really good.”<\/p>\n Lumsden added the wicket of Middlesex captain Leus du Plooy to his haul in Sunday’s comprehensive eight-wicket win<\/a> at Lords and says he’s feeling at home at this level now.<\/p>\n “I think I’m quite a relaxed character, trusting the work I do off the pitch in training, and have to put full faith in that during the game,” he said. “I think that’s working for me at the moment.”<\/p>\n Lumsden, son of Bath Rugby player Audley Lumsden, joined the Hampshire Academy in 2023.<\/p>\n