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RESULT
52nd Match, Manchester, August 29 - 31, 2024, County Championship Division One
(fo) 200 & 152

Hampshire won by an innings and 37 runs

Report

Liam Dawson's allround dominance leaves Lancashire in a spin

Four wickets in wake of century sets up prospect of big first-innings lead

Liam Dawson gets a high five from Keith Barker, Hampshire vs Surrey, County Championship, Division One, Utilita Bowl, May 24, 2024

Liam Dawson had a fine day with bat and then ball  •  Getty Images

Lancashire 193 for 8 (Jennings 56, Dawson 4-46) trail Hampshire 389 (Middleton 109, Dawson 104*, Gubbins 75, Wells 4-94) by 196 runs
A superb display by all-rounder Liam Dawson has left Hampshire in a dominant position after two days of their Vitality County Championship match against Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford.
After making an unbeaten 104, his second century of the season, and putting on 71 for the last wicket with Mohammad Abbas, Dawson bowled 28 overs unchanged from the James Anderson End, taking four for 46 as the home side replied to Hampshire's 389 with 193 for eight
The opening 75 minutes of the day were filled with frustration for Lancashire's cricketers as they watched Dawson and Abbas add a further 59 runs in 18 overs, thereby extending their last-wicket stand and changing the balance of the contest.
Dawson reached his fifty in the second over of the morning and went on to reach his century off 125 balls, having hit eight fours and five sixes, four of the maximums being struck during a session in which he had farmed the bowling shrewdly and tormented Lancashire in the process.
Having made one run off 32 balls in 89 minutes, Abbas was eventually caught at backward point by George Balderson off Luke Wells, leaving Dawson undefeated on an outstanding 104.
Lancashire then lost Wells, bowled off the inside edge by Kyle Abbott for six, in the half hour's play that was possible prior to lunch but Keaton Jennings and Josh Bohannon survived until the break and prospered in the afternoon session, putting on 90 for the second wicket before Jennings was leg before wicket to Dawson for 56.
Four overs later, the slow left-armer struck again when Rocky Flintoff tried to mow the spinner across the line but only skied a catch to substitute fielder Felix Organ at midwicket and departed for a ten-ball nought.
Lancashire came into tea on 108 for three and their decline accelerated on the resumption. In the second over of the evening session, Matt Hurst became Dawson's third wicket when he was caught off inside edge and pad by Fletcha Middleton for four.
In the next over, Bohannon, having made 43 in 167 minutes chipped John Turner straight to Tom Prest, who had been precisely placed at short midwicket. And Turner had more success in his next over when George Balderson groped at a swinging delivery and nicked a catch to second slip where Toby Albert completed a fine diving catch.
Bell and Iyer prevented complete collapse with a stand of 48 but James Fuller's diving catch to his right at cover off Abbott's bowling removed Iyer for 27. Tom Hartley then became Dawson's fourth victim when he holed out to James Vince at mid-off for two but George Bell ended the day unbeaten on 33 after two hours in which his judgement and shot-selection had perhaps been an example to some of his colleagues.

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