Moments Of The Decade: The Greatest Last Ball Victory Ever?

Arguably the greatest game of domestic county cricket, we had to leave this moment until last, didn’t we?

Hampshire were on the cusp of a historic one-day double when they took on a strong Warwickshire side at Lord’s. Michael Carberry (35), Jimmy Adams (66), Simon Katich (35*) and a majestic 57* from Sean Ervine helped Hampshire to just over a run a ball 244-5 from 40 overs.

After an opening stand of 53 in reply, Chris Wood found the breakthrough when Varun Chopra could only chip a slower ball to Adams at cover. Thereafter: Wood, Dawson and Ervine began to take regular wickets.

However, when David Griffiths had the impressive Ian Bell (81) caught at deep-square leg by Carberry it looked as if Hampshire had sealed victory.

That didn’t seem to be the case as a cameo from Chris Woakes bought Warwickshire ever closer to victory before a four from Neil Carter, on his last ever game for the club, bought the scores level with one ball to go.

Pressure was on Kabir Ali as he sent down a wide full toss, Carter somehow managed to miss and Michael Bates removed all three stumps out of the ground meaning that Hampshire had sealed the history making one-day double by losing fewer wickets than their opponents.

It truly was one of the greatest moments of the decade, maybe even ever.