Hampshire vs Warwickshire, at Birmingham, Apr 22 2009 - Cricket Photos

If Warwickshire go on to miss out on the championship by a handful of points, they will surely rue the final day of this match

It takes a remarkable performance to overshadow the efforts of Brian Lara. In posting a stand 335, however, Jim Troughton and Tim Ambrose wrote the great West Indian out of at least one part of the record books

It was always likely that Hampshire's main obstacle in this game would be a former England batsman battling for a recall. But it was Jim Troughton, not Ian Bell, who led the way as Warwickshire replied to Hampshire's worthy first innings