Hampshire's opening Frizzell County Championship match against Worcestershire is delicately poised going into the final day as two crucial late wickets slowed the home sides' charge towards posting a challenging target for the visitors to chase.

A classy maiden county century from wicket-keeper Nic Pothas laid the foundation from which Hampshire recovered from a troubled situation

From the early days of the Internet, Hampshire have had a presence as part of the Global front of CricInfo

He lasted an hour, showed the Salisbury defence a thing or two with a couple of deft dummies and produced a handful of searching runs through the centre

The Rose Bowl will host five ICC Champions Trophy matches in September, giving the Hampshire cricket ground a total of six international fixtures in the 2004 season.

Hampshire return to meeting Minor County opposition in the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy competition next season when they travel to meet Cheshire in the second round on 5 May 2004.

Three Hampshire players are facing dates with the surgeon's knife shortly to right ailments in preparation for the push for promotion to Division One of the County Championship next season.

Five wickets in the space of 6.1 post lunch overs from left-arm seamer James Tomlinson led Hampshire to their second Frizzell County Championship Division Two victory of the season and ensured their hosts, Derbyshire, ended with the wooden spoon.

On the first day of this match, the wicket had a green look to it that suggested it might have offered something to the bowlers

A maiden century from Neil Edwards took Somerset to within 61 runs of Hampshire's first innings total by the end of a run-filled second day on a typically flat Taunton wicket.

Hampshire overcame a problematic morning to end the first day of their important Frizzell County Championship Division Two clash with Somerset in the driving seat, thanks to a superb century from Derek Kenway.

Hampshire departed the north-east heading for the south-west tonight with their tails between their legs having seen their National League Division Two championship and promotion hopes take a hammering at the hands of Durham Dynamos at the Riverside.

An unbeaten fourth wicket partnership of 126 between skipper John Crawley and John Francis lifted Hampshire Hawks into second place in the National Cricket League Division Two table, bypassing the Scottish Saltires by seven wickets at the Rose Bowl.

Australian star Simon Katich ensured his new overseas counterpart from Sri Lanka did not take all the headlines today, when he was presented with his county cap during the innings break under the Rose Bowl floodlights on Wednesday evening.

Sri Lankan left-arm seamer Chaminda Vaas has agreed to join Hampshire Cricket on a short-term contract to the end of the 2003 season.

A sterling batting performance against the odds at Trent Bridge gave the Hampshire Hawks an exciting last ball victory in the floodlit National League Division Two clash against Nottinghamshire Outlaws.

In 1983, the Old County Ground at Northlands Road hosted its first One-Day International, a World Cup match between Australia and Zimbabwe

Northampton's Wantage Road ground is gradually becoming synonymous as one where the batsmen are not relishing the prospect of playing at.

Centuries from Gloucestershire opener Phil Weston and South African batsman Jonty Rhodes ensured that this Frizzell County Championship Division Two clash went into the fourth day and Hampshire toiled in the hot Sunday sunshine.

Hampshire have moved up into third place in the National Cricket League Division Two table after they manoeuvred comfortably around the potential banana skin fixture against surprise package Scottish Saltires at the picturesque The Grange in