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2007: Dawson's Debut

Quiz Question: What was unique about the 2007 Friends Provident Trophy Final where Hampshire played Durham at Lord’s?

See the bottom of the article for the answer

Champions: Sussex, Knock-out Cup: Durham, Pro40: Worcestershire, T20: Kent

Shane Warne continued as captain with the additional overseas players, Stuart Clark (Australia) then Daren Powell (West Indies). Michael Lumb moved to Hampshire from Yorkshire. Chris Tremlett was the first-ever Hampshire-born, Hampshire player to represent England in a Test Match in England (v India). England met India in a limited-overs international at the Rose Bowl.

In the Championship, Hampshire finished fifth. Michael Carberry and Michael Brown passed 1,000 runs and Warne took 50 wickets but at almost 30 apiece. Ottis Gibson took 10-47 for Durham v Hampshire at Chester-le-Street – the best bowling ever against Hampshire in the Championship and the only instance of ten wickets in an innings, for or against Hampshire in the Championship. In the same match Michael Brown carried his bat in the first innings and was not out with Hampshire nine wickets down in the second – no Hampshire player has ever carried his bat in both innings of the same match.

Hampshire featured in two high scoring matches v Surrey. At the Oval in April, Hampshire posted 481-9 declared. without a single century and eventually set Surrey 503 to win. Centuries from Batty and Salisbury took them to within 36 of the target – the highest fourth innings ever against Hampshire. In the return match, Surrey’s 556 was the highest total by a visiting side at the Rose Bowl and Surrey won by an innings, despite a century by Jimmy Adams. In the next match Hampshire beat Worcestershire at Kidderminster after the game had been switched from a flooded Worcester ground. Michael Carberry scored centuries in both innings. He finished the County Championship season with 1097 runs at an average of 50.8. His opening partner, Michael Brown, made 1078 runs at 43.12. Shane Warne took five wickets or more five times in the season. In the Durham game at the Rose Bowl in June, he finished with match figures of 11-133. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Liam Dawson made his Championship debut at Headingley in September, shortly after his youngest-ever limited-overs debut for Hampshire.

Hampshire finished fourth in the Pro40 League and with only one victory were bottom of their T20 group. However, they topped their Friends Provident Trophy group and met Warwickshire at the Rose Bowl in the semi-final, which they won by 40 runs. They played Durham in the Final and for the first and only time lost a Lord’s Final after a poor performance that went into a second day because of rain. Durham posted 312-5 in their 50 overs and reduced Hampshire to 0-2 and 17-3. Crawley (68) and Pothas (47) managed a recovery of sorts, but they lost by 125 runs.

For England at the Oval in September, ‘Dimi’ Mascarenhas hit five sixes in an over by India’s Yuvraj Singh – a limited-overs record for England. John Crawley was the season’s beneficiary. Shaun Udal retired at the end of the season but subsequently joined Middlesex. During the winter James Bruce retired and then just before the start of the 2008 season, Shane Warne announced his retirement from all cricket, although he would subsequently play in the Indian Premier League.

Derek Shackleton died on 28th September 2007. He remains the highest wicket-taker in the county’s history with 2669 first-class wickets in 583 matches and played seven Test Matches.

He took 100 first-class wickets in twenty consecutive seasons – a record for any side. None of those records will ever be broken.

Hampshire were awarded their first Test Match, scheduled to take place in 2011. Havant won the Southern Electric Premier League, with Hampshire Academy runners-up.

Quiz Answer: It was the only final that Shane Warne played in for Hampshire. Hampshire played in nine Lord’s knock-out Cup Finals - in 1988, 1991, 1992, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2018 and 2019. The first one we lost was that Durham Final in 2007.The only other loss at Headquarters was the last one in 2019.

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