Dave Allen: Surrey At The Ageas Bowl

Hampshire concluded their first T20 season with a 19-run defeat at home against Surrey, who would become the 2003 Champions as Adam Hollioake took 5-21. Simon Katich who would not return to Hampshire for nine years scored 45. In 2006 the fixture came back to the Rose Bowl, where we lost our last four wickets for five runs, and were defeated by 10 runs - Doshi taking 4-30. In 2008 we played home-and-away and won at home by six wickets, with Lumb scoring 63.

In 2009, Lumb and Adams were in good form posting 93 as we won by 18 runs, despite 73 from Ramprakash. In the following year, on our way to the title, Jimmy Adams 101* saw us home at the Rose Bowl by 10 runs (Wood 3-30).

We won one game each in 2011; Vince 51* and Imran Tahir 2-15 took us to victory by seven wickets at the Rose Bowl and we were successful in both games in 2012. At the The Ageas Bowl Surrey recovered from 9-4 but could only post 94-6 with four Hampshire bowlers conceding fewer than 20 runs from their four overs. At home, Carberry’s 60 took us to victory in 2013 and we won again that year in a low-scoring game at the Oval, but this winning sequence was broken disappointingly in the semi-final at Edgbaston which Surrey won in the final over.

In 2015, Adam Wheater’s 78 took us to victory in the single match against Surrey that year, played at the The Ageas Bowl, while the home matches in 2017 and 2019 were both abandoned with no play – let’s hope 2020 does not see a hat-trick!