Format: CricInfo Version 1t

County Championship, 1968
Somerset v Hampshire
Recreation Ground, Bath
15,16,17 June 1968

Result: Hampshire won by 9 wickets

Toss: Not known
Umpires: RS Lay and PB Wight

Close of Play:

Somerset 1st innings
RT Virgin             c Richards         b Shackleton          10
MJ Kitchen                               b Cottam              17
A Clarkson                           c & b Cottam              57
GS Chappell           c Sainsbury        b Shackleton           1
WE Alley              c Timms            b Shackleton          28
GI Burgess            lbw                b Shackleton           0
*RC Kerslake          run out                                   3
PJ Robinson           not out                                  22
BA Langford                              b White               13
+RA Brooks                               b White                0
FE Rumsey                                b Cottam               8
Extras                (b 13, lb 4, nb 5)                       22
Total                 (all out, 99.1 overs)                   181

FoW: 1-23, 2-33, 3-34, 4-98, 5-98,
     6-117, 7-134, 8-151, 9-151, 10-181.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Shackleton                  35     16     46      4
White                       17      3     54      2
Cottam                      18.1    6     21      3
Sainsbury                   29     14     38      0

Hampshire 1st innings
BA Richards           c Brooks           b Alley               71
BL Reed               c Virgin           b Alley               25
RV Lewis              c Kerslake         b Robinson            51
*RE Marshall          c Kitchen          b Robinson            65
PJ Sainsbury          lbw                b Robinson             4
DA Livingstone        not out                                  52
RMC Gilliat           c Kitchen          b Langford            25
+BSV Timms            lbw                b Rumsey               6
D Shackleton          run out                                   1
DW White                                 b Rumsey               4
RMH Cottam            c Robinson         b Burgess              4
Extras                (b 1, lb 4, nb 3)                         8
Total                 (all out, 99.2 overs)                   316

FoW: 1-94, 2-103, 3-208, 4-215, 5-220,
     6-260, 7-287, 8-297, 9-305, 10-316.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Rumsey                      16      2     57      2
Burgess                     10.2    4     16      1
Alley                       20     10     50      2
Langford                    32     12     93      1
Robinson                    16      3     74      3
Chappell                     5      0     18      0

Somerset 2nd innings
RT Virgin             c Gilliat          b Cottam              44
MJ Kitchen            c Timms            b White               10
A Clarkson            c Reed             b Sainsbury            4
GS Chappell           c Livingstone      b Cottam               6
WE Alley                                 b Cottam              17
GI Burgess            lbw                b Shackleton           1
*RC Kerslake          c Richards         b Cottam              30
PJ Robinson           c Sainsbury        b White               10
BA Langford                              b Cottam              10
+RA Brooks            not out                                   3
FE Rumsey                                b White                0
Extras                (b 6, w 4, nb 8)                         18
Total                 (all out, 62 overs)                     153

FoW: 1-29, 2-45, 3-54, 4-86, 5-95,
     6-95, 7-132, 8-137, 9-149, 10-153.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Shackleton                  18      7     31      1
White                       14      4     23      3
Cottam                      23      8     60      5
Sainsbury                    7      3     21      1

Hampshire 2nd innings (target: 19 runs)
BA Richards           lbw                b Burgess              6
BL Reed               not out                                  11
RV Lewis              not out                                   5
Extras                                                          0
Total                 (1 wicket, 6.3 overs)                    22

DNB: *RE Marshall, PJ Sainsbury, DA Livingstone, RMC Gilliat,
     +BSV Timms, D Shackleton, DW White, RMH Cottam.

FoW: 1-6.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Burgess                      3      0     13      1
Langford                     3      0      5      0
Kitchen                      0.3    0      4      0

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