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Gloucestershire Gladiators v Hampshire Royals
19/06/2010
Friends Provident t20 South Division
At Bristol
By Richard Latham
Gloucestershire recorded their lowest ever Twenty20 score as Sean Ervine took 4-12 to help skittle them for 68 in just 17.5 overs after Alex Gidman had won the toss.
It was a poor effort following the encouraging batting effort at Taunton the previous evening. A slower pitch appeared to catch the players out as a succession of misjudged shots brought their downfall.
Hampshire encountered few problems with the conditions as they knocked off the required runs for the loss of only three wickets in just 7.3 overs..
The Gladiators suffered an early setback when Will Porterfield was sent back by James Franklin going for a second run and was easily run out by Dan Christian’s throw from deep cover to the bowler’s end.
Soon it was 11-2 as Hamish Marshall top-edged a pull shot off Chris Wood to Danny Briggs at mid-on. In the same over James Franklin drove in the air straight to Dominic Cork as Wood achieved a double wicket maiden.
Hampshire suffered a blow when Australian Christian was forced off by injury having started the sixth over, which was completed by Liam Dawson. Despite two Gidman boundaries, Gloucestershire ended their power play on a meagre 25-3.
Only five runs were added before Chris Taylor attempted a big hit off Ervine and holed out to James Vince at deep mid-wicket. Two balls later Gidman top-edged a pull and wicketkeeper Nic Pothas took the catch.
Gloucestershire innings was in ruins at 32-5 and worse was to follow as Steve Snell flashed at a wide ball from Ervine and nicked a catch to Pothas.
Ervine claimed his fourth wicket when Abdul-Kadeer Ali was well caught above his head by Vince on the mid-wicket boundary as the Gladiators slumped to 45-7.
There was no way back as Vikram Banerjee edged Cork to Pothas. Jon Lewis launched a big six over mid-wicket off Wood, but it was a rare moment of defiance before he fell lbw to the left-arm spin of Briggs, having top scored with 19.
When last man Anthony Ireland was bowled by Cork with a further 13 balls available it completed a sorry procession.
Hampshire openers Michael Lumb and Jimmy Adams had no intention of hanging around and took 17 off the first two overs of the power play.
But Steve Kirby struck twice in the third over as Lumb pulled a catch to Banerjee at fine leg and Adams edged a catch to Porterfield at second slip.
James Vince and Ervine then settled any doubts about the outcome by adding 41 in rapid time. By the time Vince was bowled by Banerjee for 26 the match was won.
