{"id":617860,"date":"2026-06-02T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617860\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:13:09","slug":"t20-blast-liam-dawson-stars-as-hampshire-beat-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617860\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast: Liam Dawson stars as Hampshire beat Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everything Sussex captain Tymal Mills touched in the early stages turned to gold, as the visitors started both innings on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He won the toss, got every fielding adjustment perfect and got Hawks&#8217; dangerman James Vince out in the second over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mills went for just 13 runs in his two powerplay overs, but that was eclipsed by James Coles&#8217; unmovable darts \u2013 which went for seven runs and yorked Toby Albert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Price and Danny Briggs backed those overs up by dismissing Tom Prest and Joe Weatherley \u2013 the former to a stunning caught and bowled \u2013 as Sussex suppressed the hosts to 42-4 after seven overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dawson&#8217;s elevation to number five against Surrey saw him strike his first T20 fifty for three years. Another promotion saw identical results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He swung his first ball for four into the legside and barely gave the bowlers a break from then on, as he and Tristan Stubbs recalibrated the innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair put on 66 to boss the middle overs, with Dawson reaching back-to-back fifties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had both gone by the end of the 17th over, Dawson to give Mills his second wicket, but Fuller and Hilton Cartwright lifted the Hawks to 173 with 37 runs in the final three overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything Sussex captain Tymal Mills touched in the early stages turned to gold, as the visitors started both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}