Pat Symes

Middlesex batsmen Simon Cook and James Dalrymple fashioned an unlikely Middlesex victory with a vicious late assault on the Hampshire bowling at the Rose Bowl

Hampshire moved a step nearer a place in division one with a convincing five-wicket victory over promotion rivals Middlesex at the Rose Bowl

Opening batsman Andrew Strauss led a spirited Middlesex revival at the Rose Bowl with his third century of the season

Pitch liaison officer Peter Walker left before the end of an extraordinary day at the Rose Bowl convinced that the pitch had nothing to do with 17 wickets falling in a day for only 200 runs

Hampshire's hopes of promotion to the Norwich Union League suffered a setback when they lost to an Andrew Flintoff inspired Lancashire at the Rose Bowl

Glamorgan comfortably ended Hampshire's sequence of six successive National League victories with a six-wicket win of their own with more than 17 overs to spare

There was a shock for supporters as they made their way to the Rose Bowl at Southampton in bright sunshine for the last day of the CricInfo Championship match bewteen Hampshire and Warwickshire

Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting both scored centuries as Australia warmed up for next week's Fourth Test with a comfortable eight-wicket win over Sussex in the final match of their tour against county opposition

Alan Mullally produced his best figures of the season with perfect timing as the England selectors prepare to consider their side for the Fourth Test next week

Ian Bell and Michael Powell engineered a Warwickshire recovery at the Rose Bowl with an unbroken stand of 151 for the fourth wicket after Hampshire captain Robin Smith had chosen to field first in conditions which helped his array of seam and pace

Hampshire became the first county side to inflict defeat on the Australians on this tour in a thrilling finish at the Rose Bowl.

Robin Smith rolled back the years in scoring his fourth hundred against the Australians on the day Alan Mullally was left out of England's latest Ashes squad

Alan Mullally strengthened his Ashes claims by taking five Australian wickets as the tourists were dismissed for 97 in a morning by Hampshire at the Rose Bowl

Nottinghamshire's resistence crumbled in little more than an hour of the last day at the Rose Bowl to give Hampshire victory by 338 runs, the biggest ever margin by runs at a home venue for Hampshire in more than 100 years of championship cricket

Only the intervention of rain spared Nottinghamshire the embarrassment of losing inside three days to Hampshire at the Rose Bowl

Usman Afzaal arrived late from Lord's to discover Nottinghamshire were 74 for nine and he had been barred from batting

Hampshire supporters are used to late order resistence from Adrian Aymes

Hampshire recorded their fifth win in seven National League matches with a 16- run victory over Derbyshire in a low-scoring match at the Rose Bowl

An impressive half-century from Derek Kenway and a great all-round performance in the field guided Hampshire to an easy 79-run victory over Sussex to lift them to second in Division Two of the NUL

For the second time this season Hampshire easily crushed Derbyshire