{"id":759976,"date":"2026-09-04T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759976\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:16:09","slug":"county-championship-warwickshire-beat-hampshire-to-stay-in-title-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759976\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Warwickshire beat Hampshire to stay in title hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Utilita Bowl, Southampton (day three)<\/p>\n

Warwickshire 398: Yates 109; Abbott 4-51<\/p>\n

Hampshire 115 & 154: Lehmann 42; Suthar 4-52<\/p>\n

Warwickshire (22 pts) beat Hampshire (2 pts) by an innings and 129 runs<\/p>\n

Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

India Test spinner Manav Suthar took seven wickets in the match as Warwickshire remained in the County Championship title hunt by beating relegation-threatened Hampshire inside three days.<\/p>\n

Hampshire lost 14 wickets in the day at Southampton as they slumped from 74-6 in their first innings overnight before being bowled out in their second innings for 154 when they followed on.<\/p>\n

While the Bears’ innings-and-129-run win moves them within five points of new Division One leaders Somerset, who also won by an innings<\/a> earlier in the day, Hampshire are now 31 points adrift of safety with just three games left.<\/p>\n

With the next two matches away from home, at Nottingham and Leicester, the second longest-serving members of the top flight behind Somerset may well be relegated back to Division Two by the time they return to Southampton for their final game on 24 September.<\/p>\n

After a delayed start, Hampshire lost their four remaining first innings wickets in exactly an hour.<\/p>\n

Olly Hannon-Dalby had Andrew Neal caught at first slip to give him figures of 3-14, Suthar pinned James Fuller lbw and Ethan Bamber mopped things up, encouraging a thin edge from Ben Brown before Kyle Abbott drove low to midwicket.<\/p>\n

It was the fourth successive match in which Hampshire had been bowled out for under 200 in the first innings – and they still have just three batting bonus points to their name this season.<\/p>\n

The second innings was not much prettier as both openers were gone inside six overs as Chris Woakes joined in.<\/p>\n

The former England fast bowler delivered a nip-backer to bowl Ali Orr before Nick Gubbins edged to second slip at head height.<\/p>\n

Toby Albert and Jake Lehmann stuck around manfully and looked set in. But Lehmann was run out for 42 after a stand of 66, before Albert edged to slip.<\/p>\n

But, from 128-4, the hosts lost their last six wickets for just 26, triggered by Ben Mayes’ stumping.<\/p>\n

Neal was lbw, James Fuller edged to slip, before Hannon-Dalby produced a searing in-swinger to bowl Scott Currie and then pinned Eddie Jack lbw.<\/p>\n

Warwickshire’s three-day win was confirmed when Abbott chipped to cover as Suthar (4-52) ended with match figures of 7-94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Utilita Bowl, Southampton (day three) Warwickshire 398: Yates 109; Abbott 4-51 Hampshire 115…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-759976","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\/759976","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=759976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}