Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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Personnel
Captain	Dimitri Mascarenhas
Coach	Giles White
Overseas player	Imran Tahir
Team information
Founded	1863
Home ground	Rose Bowl
Capacity	22,000
History
Championship wins	2
Pro40 wins	3
FP Trophy wins	2
Twenty20 Cup wins	0
Official website	HampshireCricket

Hampshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Hampshire. Its limited overs team is called the Hampshire Hawks. Their kit colours are yellow with blue sleeves and the shirt sponsor is Powells.

The club plays all of its home games at the Rose Bowl, newly built in 2001 and located at West End, near Southampton. Hampshire was previously based at the County Ground, Northlands Road, Southampton, which had been its home since 1885. The team had also played many matches in Portsmouth and Bournemouth and occasional games in Basingstoke and Cowes before moving all competitive matches to the Rose Bowl.

Hampshire is currently in Division One of the County Championship. Its most recent success was on 3 September 2005 when it won the C&G Trophy by 18 runs, including a century from Zimbabwean Sean Ervine, against Warwickshire.

Honours

• County Championship (2) - 1961, 1973
• Gillette/NatWest/C&G/Friends Provident Trophy (2) - 1991, 2005
• Sunday/National League (3) - 1975, 1978, 1986
• Twenty20 Cup (0) -
• Benson & Hedges Cup (2) - 1988, 1992

Second XI honours

• Second XI Championship (5) - 1967, 1971, 1981, 1995, 2001; shared (0) -
• Second XI Trophy (1) - 2003
• Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (0) -

Records

Most first-class runs for Hampshire
Qualification - 20000 runs [1]

Player	Runs
Phil Mead	48892
Roy Marshall	30303
George Brown	22962
James Gray	22450
John Arnold	21596
Henry Horton	21536

Most first-class wickets for Hampshire
Qualification - 1000 wickets [2]

Player	Wickets
Derek Shackleton	2669
Alec Kennedy	2549
Jack Newman	1946
Stuart Boyes	1415
Peter Sainsbury	1245
Butch White	1097
Lofty Herman	1041

Team totals

• Highest Total For - 714-5 declared v Nottinghamshire Southampton 2005

• Highest Total Against - 742 by Surrey The Oval 1909

• Lowest Total For - 15 v Warwickshire Birmingham 1922 (Hampshire amazingly managed to win this match.)

• Lowest Total Against - 23 by Yorkshire Middlesbrough 1965

Batting

• Highest Score - 316 R.H.Moore v Warwickshire Bournemouth 1937

• Most Runs in Season - C.P.Mead 2854 in 1928

• Most Runs in Career - 48892 C.P.Mead 1905-1936

Best Partnership for each wicket

• 1st - 347 VP Terry & CL Smith v Warwickshire Birmingham 1987

• 2nd - 321 G Brown & EIM Barrett v Gloucestershire Southampton 1920

• 3rd - 344 G Brown & CP Mead v Yorkshire Portsmouth 1927

• 4th - 263 RE Marshall & DA Livingstone v Middlesex Lord's 1970

• 5th - 235 G Hill & DF Walker v Sussex Portsmouth 1937

• 6th - 411 RM Poore & EG Wynyard v Somerset Taunton 1899

• 7th - 325 G Brown & CH Abercrombie v Essex Leyton 1913

• 8th - 257 N Pothas & AJ Bichel v Gloucestershire at Cheltenham 2005

• 9th - 230 DA Livingstone & AT Castell v Surrey Southampton 1962

• 10th - 192 HAW Bowell & WH Livsey v Worcestershire Bournemouth 1921

Bowling

• Best Bowling 9/25 RMH Cottam v Lancashire Manchester 1965

• Best Match Bowling 16/88 JA Newman v Somerset Weston-super-Mare 1927

• Wickets in Season AS Kennedy 190 in 1922

• Wickets in Career 2669 D Shackleton 1948-1969

Earliest cricket

A Latin poem by Robert Matthew in 1647 contains a probable reference to cricket being played by pupils of Winchester College on nearby St Catherine’s Hill. If authentic, this is the earliest known mention of cricket in Hampshire. But, with the sport having originated in Saxon or Norman times on the Weald, it must have reached Hampshire long before 1647.

In 1680, lines written in an old Bible invite "All you that do delight in Cricket, come to Marden, pitch your wickets". Marden is in West Sussex, north of Chichester, and interestingly close to Hambledon, which is just across the county boundary in Hampshire.

See : History of cricket to 1696

Hampshire is used in a team name for the first time in August 1729, when a combined Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex XI played against Kent.

Hambledon and after

The origin of the legendary Hambledon Club is lost and we have no definite knowledge of Hambledon cricket before 1756 when its team had gained sufficient repute to be capable of attempting three matches against Dartford, which had been a famous club since the 1720s if not earlier. Hambledon had presumably earned recognition as the best parish team in Hampshire, but no reports of their local matches have been found. We do not know when the Hambledon Club was founded and it seems likely that some kind of parish organisation was operating in 1756, although there may well have been a patron involved.

The Sussex v Hampshire match in June 1766 is the earliest reference to Hampshire as an individual county team. Whether the Hambledon Club was involved is unrecorded but presumably it was. Some historians believe it was at about this time that the club, as distinct from a parish organisation, was founded.

The Hambledon Club was in many respects a Hampshire county club for it organised Hampshire matches, although it was a multi-functional club and not dedicated to cricket alone. Its membership attracted large numbers of sporting gentry and it dominated the sport, both on and off the field, for about thirty years until the formation of Marylebone Cricket Club in 1787. Hambledon produced some legendary Hampshire players including master batsman John Small and the two great fast bowlers Thomas Brett and David Harris.

Following the demise of the Hambledon Club towards the end of the 18th century, Hampshire continued to be recognised as a major county into the 19th century. But after the 1828 season, Hampshire had long spells without any important matches until the county club was founded in 1864. The county played some important fixtures during 1842 to 1845 and one match versus MCC in 1861 but was otherwise outside cricket’s mainstream through 1829 to 1863.

For information about Hampshire county teams before the formation of Hampshire CCC, see : Hampshire county cricket teams

Origin of club

Hampshire CCC was founded on 12 August 1863 and played its initial first-class match versus Sussex CCC at the Antelope Ground, Southampton on 7 and 8 July 1864. The club was recognised as a first-class team from 1864 and was a contender for the "Champion County" title.

This was not a permanent state of affairs, however. In 1886, Hampshire CCC ceased to be a first-class team after years of difficult circumstances and poor results. It did play matches against Surrey CCC and Sussex CCC in 1886 but these matches are not recognised as first-class. Hampshire CCC did not recover first-class status until the beginning of the 1895 season when it was readmitted to the now official County Championship.

Hampshire CCC is thus recognised as first-class from 1864 to 1885 and from 1895 to the present day.

Notable players

Famous Hampshire players have included England cricket captains C. B. Fry, David Gower, Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson and Kevin Pietersen; West Indian greats Roy Marshall, Gordon Greenidge, Andy Roberts and Malcolm Marshall; Barry Richards of South Africa; England Test caps John Crawley, Robin Smith, Shaun Udal, Phil Mead (who scored more runs for the county than anyone has ever scored for any single first-class side), Derek Shackleton and Alec Kennedy (the last two both taking more than 2500 wickets for the county); Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, who led the side to its first County Championship title in 1961; Richard Gilliat, the captain of their second Championship winners; Peter Sainsbury, who played in both title winning teams Paul Terry (played 2 test matches against the West Indies in 1984); and in recent years the Australians Shane Warne, Simon Katich, Matthew Hayden, Shane Watson, Andy Bichel, Michael Clarke and Stuart Clark. Other notable overseas test players Graeme Smith, Daren Powell and Shane Bond

See also: Category:Hampshire cricket captains

Current Squad

Kevin Pietersen, Hampshire player and captain of England

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Nat	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
James Adams		LHB	LM
Chris Benham		RHB	OS
Michael Carberry		LHB	OS	England 'A' player
John Crawley		RHB	RM	Former England Test and ODI player
Kevin Pietersen		RHB	OS	England Test and ODI player
Michael Lumb		LHB	RM
All-rounders
Dominic Cork		RHB	RFM	Former England Test and ODI player
Sean Ervine		LHB	RM	Former Zimbabwe Test and ODI player
Dimitri Mascarenhas(c)		RHB	RMF	England ODI player
Wicket-keepers
Tom Burrows		RHB
Nic Pothas		RHB		EU National, Former South Africa ODI player
Bowlers
David Balcombe		RHB	RFM
Imran Tahir		RHB	LS	Overseas player
Liam Dawson		RHB	SLA	England U-19 Player, England 'A' player
David Griffiths		LHB	RFM
Hamza Riazuddin		RHB	RMF	England U-19
Billy Taylor		LHB	RMF
Chris Tremlett		RHB	RMF	England Test and ODI Player
James Tomlinson		LHB	LM

The Rose Bowl

The Rose Bowl

Further information: Rose Bowl, Hampshire

One reason for building the new Rose Bowl ground was to attract international cricket to the south coast of England. England has traditionally had six grounds where Test and ODI cricket has been played: The Oval, Lord's, Trent Bridge, Edgbaston, Old Trafford and Headingley. Durham was the first of the other centres to put forward a claim for international status, building the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street, which has played host to Test matches between England and Zimbabwe in 2003, and England and Bangladesh in 2005.

Amongst this competitive background, as part of a four year staging agreement the Rose Bowl hosted a One Day International between South Africa and Zimbabwe in 2003. It was scheduled to play host to a one-dayer between the West Indies and New Zealand in 2004, but this was called off because of rain.

The Rose Bowl was also selected as one of three venues to host five matches in the ICC Champions Trophy in September 2004, along with The Oval and Edgbaston. Five fixtures were played there. It hosted England's first twenty20 International, played against Australia in 2005.

The ground is also used occasionally for concerts, for example hosting Oasis in July 2005 and Billy Joel a year later.

The Rose Bowl hosted the 2008 finals of the Twenty20 Cup. Middlesex Crusaders won the final against the Kent Spitfires, after beating the Durham Dynamos in the semi final. It was a great event and the finals day at the Rose Bowl has further promoted the reputation of the ground in its push to host big international events.

Hampshire Facts and Feats

• Hampshire won one of the most remarkable victories in County Championship history when they defeated Warwickshire by 155 runs after having followed on. After being dismissed for just 15 they scored 521 after being invited to bat again, set Warwickshire 314 to win and bowled them out for 158. Brown, with 172, and Livsey who scored 110* at number 10, were the heroes.

• Fast-medium bowlers Alec Kennedy and Jack Newman carried Hampshire's attack in the early twenties, both achieving the double five times. In 1921 and 1923 they bowled together through entire matches unchanged. In 1922 Newman was sent off the field at Trent Bridge by Hampshire captain the Hon. L.H. Tennyson after kicking the stumps down in a fit of pique. His captain ticked him off in the dressing room, accepted his apology and gave him one pound.

• Dick Moore set the individual scoring record for Hampshire against Worcestershire at Bournemouth in 1937. His chanceless 316 took just 380 minutes and contained 43 fours and 3 sixes.

• The Hampshire kit is made by Canterbury Of New Zealand who make their One Day kit, 4 day kit, and twenty20 kit, also the training and warm up gear

External sources

• Official website
• Cricket Archive - Lists of numerous club records & scorecards

Further reading

• Dave Allen, "Entertain or Perish: Hampshire County Cricket 1946-2006, Phillimore, 2007
• H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
• Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
• Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
• Roy Webber, The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951

• Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack – various editions