Joe Weatherley, Fletcha Middleton make mild work of Surrey

Hampshire 206 for two (Waetherley 100, Middleton 78) beat Surrey 203 (Patel 78, Holland 5-35) by eight wickets

Hampshire cruised previous Surrey’s 203 all out from 45 overs in simply 33.2 overs of their very own, boosting their web run price and preserving them in rivalry to high Group A and subsequently earn a house semi-final. As it’s, even when they fail to beat Kent at Newclose on the Isle of Wight on Tuesday, they’ve already made certain of second place within the group and the assure of a house quarter-final.

Weatherley completed with precisely 100 and his partnership with Middleton was a primary wicket List A document for Hampshire towards Surrey, beating the 57-year-old mark of 128 set by Roy Marshall and Barry Reed at Bournemouth in 1966.

Surrey had been closely crushed for the second time in 4 days at Woodbridge Road, following their ten-wicket defeat towards Lancashire on Thursday. At least this time they took a few wickets, with gradual left armer Dan Moriarty catching each Middleton and Weatherley off his personal bowling.

Middleton, who struck two sixes and 6 fours, was ultimately out for an 88-ball 78 within the twenty ninth over and Weatherley had simply accomplished a positive hundred when he drove Moriarty low into the bowlers’ fingers on 100, constructed from precisely 100 balls, with 14 fours. Tom Prest, who hit the profitable boundary to take Hampshire to 206 for 2, ended unbeaten on 24.

In the sphere, Hampshire had been spearheaded by Ian Holland’s List A career-best 5 for 35, with the all-rounder bowling his medium-paced seamers with nice ability and management with each the brand new ball and, later, when wrapping up the tail.

Opener Ryan Patel, who scored 78 from 88 balls with two sixes and 6 fours, was the one Surrey batsman to claim himself towards a disciplined Hamphire assault.

And Surrey’s failure to succeed in a extra aggressive whole was maybe the results of an unlucky incident within the thirty sixth over of their innings, when Patel pulled Keith Barker flat and laborious for six behind sq. leg and the ball hit a toddler past the boundary rope.

A variety of gamers, together with Patel, and the physios of each groups, went throughout to examine on the kid’s well-being – fortunately, he gave the impression to be positive and was quickly receiving precautionary medical consideration – and play was halted for a short while.

That stroke had taken Patel to 75 however, within the subsequent over, he nonetheless appeared affected by the incident and tamely lifted a catch to cowl off Scott Currie and, from 173 for 5 earlier than Patel’s dismissal, Surrey misplaced their final 5 wickets for simply 30 runs in little greater than eight overs.

McKerr skied a catch off Holland to go for 18 and 19-year-old Tommy Ealham’s debut innings, a sketchy 4 off 16 balls, ended when the son of former England all-rounder Mark Ealham and grandson of former Kent captain Alan Ealham drove the identical bowler to further cowl the place Donald held on on the second try after athletically preserving the ball up together with his knee as he fell to his left.

Griffiths was comprehensively bowled by a full ball from Currie, for 5, and the innings ended when Moriarty hit Holland excessive to mid off the place Joseph Eckland judged a swirling ball nicely as he ran again in direction of the boundary edge.

Dom Sibley had earlier helped Patel give Surrey a stable begin, after Hampshire had opted to bowl first, earlier than on 15 slicing to Barker at level off Holland.

The seamer then had Rory Burns caught behind for 8 in a wonderful new ball spell of 7-0-23-2, and Surrey had been 68 for 3 when Ben Geddes (16) edged seamer Dominic Kelly to keeper Ben Brown, diving to his proper.

Steel adopted seven overs later, for 14, hitting Currie to deep mid wicket, however not less than Patel was then joined by Josh Blake within the highest partnership of the innings, 54 from 12 overs, to make sure Surrey had one thing to defend.

Blake made 29 from 45 balls however was leg-before to Prest’s off spin within the thirty fifth over because the Surrey batting effort tailed off to the frustration of Guildford’s second sell-out crowd of two,000 in 4 days.