26/09Result
County Championship Division One at Birmingham, Sep 26-29 2022
Warwickshire won by 5 runs
26/09Result
County Championship Division One at Birmingham, Sep 26-29 2022
Warwickshire won by 5 runs

4.51pm Wow. Liam Norwell is engulfed by his team-mates after the bowling display of his life, and most other lives! A career-best 9 for 62, and every one of them utterly critical to his team's slender, sinking hopes of salvation. It's 13 in the match as well... and the entire Hampshire team wait on the boundary's edge to shake his hand as he leads the teams off.

And so, just to reiterate, after their own 18-run loss to Gloucestershire yesterday, it is Yorkshire who go down, as Warwickshire pull off one of the most improbable escapes ever seen in the County Championship. What a climax to the 2022 season! Thanks for joining our final edition of County Cricket Pop-up Comms. Fair to say, that was worth tuning in for.

John: "Liam Norwell - The nation loves you! Always good when one of the "big" sides (that is those lucky enough to have Test grounds) goes down... and even better when its Yorkshire especially after the last year or two."

Richard: "Amazing game. County cricket, despite the best efforts of the ECB, is still incredible."

Alex W: "Even if no one else (I'm sure they did) noticed your callback to Ian Smiths "barest of margins", I definitely did, and I appreciate it immensely!" You saw what I did there...

Robin Bernstein: "As a Lancastrian I'm very happy by this result. Sending Yorkshire down is terrific, but it secures Lancs as runners up in all competitions this season (including that daft Hundred thingy if Manchester Originals count as well). Has that ever happened before?"

43.5
W
Norwell to Mohammad Abbas, OUT, walks across his stumps, and Abbas is stone-dead! The slowest of slow deaths from the umpire, surely thinking was there any way it wasn't out... and there wasn't! Angled in at the base of middle stump, and Warwickshire survive by the barest of margins!

Mohammad Abbas lbw b Norwell 0 (4m 4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

Rick Rom: "Just shows what fine margins there are - Yorks lost to Essex by 1 wicket recently - could easily gone the other way and this match is just as close..."

43.4
0
Norwell to Mohammad Abbas, no run, back of a length, Abbas hops back into the crease, to nudge to the on-side, thoughts of a single, but nope... not this time

Alan w: "Sat here in Yorkshire cheering on players to be honest I don't know much about"

43.3
0
Norwell to Mohammad Abbas, no run, full, floatier delivery, driven in the air out to point, where Brookes tidies up
43.2
0
Norwell to Mohammad Abbas, no run, solidly onto the front foot, and pushed into the off side

Eight for Norwell, and still he's not finished. Five balls at the No.11, to keep Warwickshire in the First Division!

43.1
W
Norwell to Fuller, OUT, bowled him, middle stump is gone! Unbelievable scenes! Hits the pitch hard outside off, Fuller pushes loosely and snags an inside edge to demolish his own timbers! We are going to the absolute wire here!

JK Fuller b Norwell 22 (48m 21b 3x4 0x6) SR: 104.76

END OF OVER:
43 | 2 Runs | HANTS: 133/8

  • Brad Wheal3 (14b)
  • James Fuller22 (20b)
  • Oliver Hannon-Dalby18-4-40-1
  • Liam Norwell18-3-62-7
42.6
0
Hannon-Dalby to Wheal, no run, onto the front foot, hits the pad but down the leg side. Another tidy over, to keep Warwickshire afloat, and give the tireless Norwell another shot
42.5
0
Hannon-Dalby to Wheal, no run, fired past the legs on the full. Gets that one wrong, but gets away with it

Ed: "For the neutrals out there, would love to see this get done to 4 to win with one wicket remaining. Every result in the balance with every ball" You may yet get your wish!

42.4
1
Hannon-Dalby to Fuller, 1 run, fractionally shorter, an expansive swish across the line, not perfectly timed out to deep midwicket
42.3
1
Hannon-Dalby to Wheal, 1 run, hard-handed jab past the cordon! Fuller length, and all the more tentative for it. Only two slips, but deep third cuts off the boundary
42.2
0
Hannon-Dalby to Wheal, no run, explosive off the pitch! Rears past the splice and Davies does brilliantly to claw it down, that had four byes all over it!
42.1
0
Hannon-Dalby to Wheal, no run, perfect line and length! So nearly snags the edge as it snaps off the pitch, Gus Fraser-style, past the edge

Hannon-Dalby, pounding in again

END OF OVER:
42 | 6 Runs | HANTS: 131/8

  • Brad Wheal2 (9b)
  • James Fuller21 (19b)
  • Liam Norwell18-3-62-7
  • Oliver Hannon-Dalby17-4-38-1
41.6
1
Norwell to Wheal, 1 run, drawn onto the front foot, firmly pushed into the covers, they are happy to take the single - as well they might
41.5
0
Norwell to Wheal, no run, back of a length, angled in, a tentative prod with an open face, out to backward point

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Hampshire 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st6IG HollandFS Organ
2nd8IG HollandJJ Weatherley
3rd19NRT GubbinsJJ Weatherley
4th16JM VinceNRT Gubbins
5th24BC BrownNRT Gubbins
6th12AHT DonaldNRT Gubbins
7th6KHD BarkerNRT Gubbins
8th33JK FullerNRT Gubbins
9th9JK FullerBTJ Wheal
10th0Mohammad AbbasBTJ Wheal